documented clear?

Question answered by escapee in Scientology

remiel asked this question on 9/23/2000:

I know that one thing that the CoS are berated for is the fact that they claim to have provable science behind their work and yet produce no research or documentable results. I was wondering if anyone here from the Freezone is, or has evidence of, a clear as described in Dianetics. Please remember before answering that at various points, it is claimed that a Clear has, amongst other things, heightened IQ, a perfect memory and increased analytical skills.

escapee gave this response on 9/23/2000:

There are some things that were stated early on that did not prove out to be true. In particular, the memory. Clears were not known to have eidetic recall as Hubbard first expected them to have.

In the 19th ACC, the Clearing ACC (Advanced Clinical Course) of 1958, where half of us went clear and the other half did not (experimental) those who attested to clear were not permitted to purchase a clear bracelet and be accepted as clear unless they could pass a personality test in the top 1/3rd and an IQ test over 135.

Later, after LRH decided that the clears he personally checked out in 1958 weren't clear after all, and instituted another direction in clearing, the testing dropped out as far as I know. I never heard of John MacMasters, the first clear on the new procedure, having to do tests and be approved. Apparently the "experimental auditing" was over.

remiel rated this answer:

you say that clears did not turn out to have perfect memory 'as hubbard first expected them to have'. Do you mean by this that he changed his mind? If so, is there a retraction, and why is the claim still published in copies of Dianetics?

Sorry if I come across as interrogative.

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