Clear: The Way

I get the feeling we’re going to be talking a LOT about aberrations, so it seems prudent to take a moment to define one here. An aberration, in terms of the text, is a departure from rational thought or behavior. Aberations are the cause of all of our mental hiccups – a simple mistake, a poor choice, a delusion, an insecurity – these are all aberrations, and suffering from them is entirely optional. Enter the Clear – a person who has cleansed their mind of all such departures from reason. A Clear is without aberration, not just in theory, but in measurable fact. He is “free from all psychosomatic ills…. he pursues existence with vigor and satisfaction. Undeniably just an all-around super guy (or gal).

One key difference between a Clear and the common aberrated man is the Clear’s perceptions and senses are under the complete control of his or her will. To be free of aberrations is to be smarter and happier. But what causes aberrations? Are they an inherent trait of the human mind? The answer is a resounding No! They’re caused by “engrams”, nasty little memories or recordings of pain stemming from some unpleasantness in your souls nearly-infinite past. We don’t delve much farther into engrams here in Book One, Chapter Two. But we are highly concerned with memory, or as Hubbard prefers, “returning”. It gets a little tricky here, but this is where I THINK he’s going with this….

A Clear has a vastly superior ability for “returning” than the aberrated person. A Clear can harness the awesome power of their unaberrated minds to return to events in their past and re-live them with all five senses. This is not just a common result of hypnosis – because it is done…. perfectly? I don’t know, okay! Anywho, the power to revisit past events via all senses extends beyond just cherished childhood memories – advanced Clears can travel back to events that pre-date their current human forms into what can only be described as past lives.

As Chapter Two comes to close, we touch on a theme that I think we’re going to be revisiting with all our senses in chapters to come. I’ll just quote it, since I can’t paraphrase it better. “The sentient portion of the mind, which computes the answer to problems and which makes man man, is utterly incapable of error” as long as it is equipped for the correct data. Therefore, the Clear mind never makes an error. Never. Ever.

Well, then how does everyone’s favorite Clear, Tom Cruise, explain Knight and Day? ZING! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)