Here’s a recent post on Facebook.
You know scientology constantly goes on about how they “are Clearing the Planet.”
The reality of course is something entirely different.
Here is a new Clear. His Clear number is 75,906.
This is the GRAND TOTAL of all Clears made since 1950 — or at least since 1966 when they handed out the first Clear bracelet to John McMaster (subsequently declared a Suppressive Person — far from the magical powers of a “Clear’).
75,000 Clears in 50 or so years is not going to Clear Andorra (more than half of these “Clears” are no longer “Clear” like McMaster, or are dead), let alone planet earth.
But the news is even bleaker. Things have been slowing down in the Clearing department. To a dribble.
I did a post in December 2020 which included the latest Clear bracelet at that time — number 74,106. It’s been almost 2 years since then. They have made a grand total of 1,800 Clears in all of scientology over 2 years.
There are about 180 orgs. That is 10 per org. Or 5 Clears A YEAR each!
More people win the lottery in a year than go Clear even in cities that DO have an org.
The population of the world is increasing by about 200,000 people EVERY DAY.
“Planetary Clearing” is so much further away now than it was YESTERDAY, and orders of magnitude further away than it was a decade ago. In fact, the CLOSEST scientology has ever been to achieving a “Cleared Planet” was the day the FIRST CLEAR was made. It has been losing ground ever since.
They’re “gearing up” for the “big push.”
The delusion is
I found out when “in”, there are 2 people with my Clear number. I wonder how many others of those there are?
Thanks for this post, Mike.
Having lived through Scientology/OSA’s “Fair Game” actions against me, to this day…I can honestly say: Clear/OT?
MY ASS!
So much YOU know Mike. If a giant meteor hits the Earth and kills all but a thousand people and even ONE of those is clear, just think how close it will be then.
Mike, you are just SO negative!!!!
You need to think in terms of a billion years.
It is just possible that in four or five hundred million years from now, Scientology’s PR might improve as they finally hit 10,000 people having started OT7.
ok, unlikely, but still …
There is the REAL-LIFE definition of concepts and words,
other than an IMPOSED Definition – here by L. Ron Hubbard – of Clear and of hundreds of other words and concepts, including the imposed definition of the word ‘Scientology’ itself (not to mention his ‘Study Tech’).
A real-life definition of ‘Clear,’ as opposed to his IMPOSED definitions of ‘Clear’
– assuming you find joy, in defining concepts and words by way of real life –
practiced INSIDE the actuality of, or real-life existing in, a Hubbard-Scientology environment or ‘bubble’ as you call it,
appears to be:
‘Feeling happy and healthy about being dominated by Hubbard’
which is, complying with the imposition of his thoughts and accepting his procedures (making up a long list of intelligent pretenses and pompous words and courses),
including NOT EVER looking at or examining him, the real-life Hubbard and his wonderful, lofty PRETENSES,
and showing no signs of disagreement with (and instead, being euphorically numbed – I say ‘euphorized’ – about) all that, as it is verified by ‘NOT reacting on the E-meter’ to a verbal read-out of a list of unpleasant feelings.
The only similarity with the various IMPOSED definitions of ‘Clear’ (by Hubbard),
is (replacing ‘Being’ Happy and Healthy with ‘FEELING’) “Happy and Healthy.”
(end)
Two things i’ld like to comment on. The above clear talks about how great it was to reach clear and that it is assisting him and has many wins. This is not entirely unique as pretty much all of the success stories sound similar, Scientologists state how much their life has changed, how much better it is, that they have wins and are succeeding yet none can give specific real life examples, all they do is give a general statement that their life is on the up. You never hear them say, their business has expanded, their grades in university have gone through the roof, their interpersonal relationships are as good as they have ever been etc etc. The only person I know of that gives specific examples is Tampa Brad however i strongly believe most of what he credits to scientology have nothing to do with the orgs help. Could this be because their are limited examples that one could give and that Scientology is barely assisting anybody deal with this world ? If they are responsible for big life changing events why would they not be mentioned ?
Andreas Kalt also states that he found one of the courses difficult but Scientology never gave up on him, im guessing any business if you keep handing over your money will be happy to take it, i’ve never heard of a golfer being refused golf lessons for not being good enough – this poor soul states they never gave up on him like as if they were doing a overly generous favor out of the goodness of their massive hearts when in reality all they were doing was partaking in a business transaction and not turning their backs on potential future revenue.
I am very happy to say that I was in Scientology for twenty five years and now do not believe in the reactive mind or engrams or locks or secondaries or the time track or overts or witholds or misunderstood words or thousands of other ideas in Scientology doctrine!
That being said, I am surprised they are even claiming to make eighteen hundred clears a year now! I have heard from people who came to orgs that I was at that they drove across the United States and intended to stop at the different orgs in the states they were crossing and several times they would go to the address of an org and find a boarded up building and ask the locals if the org had moved and be told it closed down years ago but that Scientology can’t admit failure or shrinkage so in literature the org is still listed as open.
Several different people have had stories of this in Scientology for both orgs and missions. I remember hearing this both while I was in Scientology (1989 – 2014) and after leaving.
This was way before Covid, so that is no excuse.
Honestly a lot of those 180 alleged orgs are either entirely closed down or have less than two dozen staff in total and less than a hundred public, sometimes the staff outnumber the public and they have less than two dozen staff.
Scientology is really shrinking and aside from LA and Clearwater you are hard pressed to find even a few hundred Scientologists almost anywhere.
With the reputation Scientology has now often the public are in their fifties or older and the only people they can recruit are their kids. So you have kids trying to get their parents to buy courses, often courses they did years ago.
I think all the cults are going through this. The Mormons are putting their mega expensive temples on every street corner while the church membership is in decline. There were at one time two Mormon wards in Roanoke, now just one.
I remember Tony Ortega once mentioned on his blog that he owned a Clear bracelet. Just out of curiosity, I checked eBay and there are none for sale — there are a few e-meters, but no bracelets. I wonder if the CoS buys them up if anyone tries to put theirs on the market to avoid them falling into the hands of SPs?
Sue, bracelets do still show up on eBay from time to time. I see that there is one in Sold Items that went at the end of August after just a day, which does make me wonder if someone might be buying them up, but it was certainly the case in the past that the higher priced ones in particular were listed for extended periods of time.
How are they even making around 1.000 a year when they likely don’t have 20,000 active members? And 5 members per year per local org would be about a fifth to a tenth of the number of people we typically see in major event photos.
Of course the concentrations around LA and Clearwater probably account for more that their share of clears. But still, I wonder if like so many other things in the CofS, the clear numbers aren’t being fudged somehow, perhaps such by things like how many people are made to repeat clear (they may not get issue new numbers, but maybe the internal accounting system uses ones for which bracelets are then never issued).
Howie Spinner says:
Have there been cases of human trafficking, forced abortions, slave wages, credit card fraud, yada yada yada from the most ethical organization on the planet? Give me a break.
Yes, there have been. And that’s a yes to all the above.
But you need to look outside the bubble a bit, take your hand away from covering your eyes, and actually look into it. See what you find.
What?! Sounds like Howie is trying very hard to not wake up.
Son of a bitch!
Anytime someone posts the slightest criticism of anyone here, you all seem to attack them without a thought to what the truth may be.
In many ways you all have become more unethical than anyone from the RTC or OA or any other organ.
Y’all need to chill the fuck out and think a bit. You know what that mean? It is the thing you do with the organ inside your skull. I would doubt that any of you have one except that you cannot live without one.
In the meantime, just keep parroting that all the answers can be found in Mike’s book. The book. The book. The stupid book.
Don’t you notice how every other time someone asks him a question, his answer begins with, “Well, in my book I have written about that and … ”
It’s enough to make the whole world puke!
Y’all can just sit on my face and spin!
Howie Spinner said:” Don’t you notice how every other time someone asks him a question, his answer begins with, “Well, in my book I have written about that and … ””
He’s been on a book promotion tour, of course he’ll say so. How about the cult’s own tactics- serve them a “mystery sandwich, tell them to buy & read a book!” ?
Howie also said:” In many ways you all have become more unethical than anyone from the RTC or OA or any other organ.”
Oh really Howie?! How do you get to that “cognition” ?
And you also wrote:” Have there been cases of human trafficking, forced abortions, slave wages, credit card fraud, yada yada yada from the most ethical organization on the planet? Give me a break.”
W?T?F? Howie? What? Why? Or even better: IDGAF Howie! Much love 😎
To: Howie Spinner
From: David Miscavige COB RTC
Re: commenting on this blog.
If I catch you commenting on this blog again I will have you declared! No Scientology public are allowed to post comments here!
ML,
Dave.
To: David Miscavige COB RTC
From: Alcoboy
Re: commenting on this blog.
If you’re going to declare people for posting comments here, you really need to start with yourself.
Sheesh!
No love at all,
Alcoboy.
Well, when you really think about it, if someone has to tell you and confirm that you’re a clear, then it must be pretty “unclear”. “I’d like to indicate you’re clear….I’d like to indicate you weren’t really clear”
Either way………not so clear. Imagine reaching the top of Everest and just standing there until someone says “I’d like to indicate you are now at the top of the mountain!”
Ridiculous.
Exactly.
Quackery Outfit Policy 101.
Step 1, How to be a good dupe? Follow the dupe rules.
———————–
Ex Dupe rule number 1
a) Tell all Scientologists you can: “Xenu caused the Wall of Fire, and Xenu dumped body-thetans onto earth which on OT levels 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 all Scientology dupes exorcise these imaginary body-thetans off their bodies.
In effect, spoiler alert Scientology’s secret exorcism quackery to all Scientologists, all the time, to undermine their quackery.
Actually I found on internet that about 385,000 babies are born each day (not 200 000) so they have cleared about 20% of the number of people born each day in over 70 years. At this rate it is easy to tell when earth will be cleared – never. Even clearing Clearwater will take more than 100 years at this rate, assuming no more people are born. I realized a long time ago, before I became aware of all the horrible abuses, that we never were expanding fast enough to change the world. Of course the bigger problem is Clear means nothing. I said the right thing so I was clear, but I didn’t feel any different than before. I never felt I was somehow better than people who never did any Scientology. Of course, after reading of all the abuses, I realize we were worse than most groups.
Also I seem to recall the numbers being assigned to orgs in batches. There’s no guarantee they’ve made that many clears. That’s just the next number assigned to that org. The real number is probably at least a few hundred lower. Of course their numbers are so insignificant that being off that much doesn’t make a difference.
This is correct. I’ve made that point in earlier posts. I didn’t bother today. 50k or 75k or 500k it’s all the same when compared to the population of earth!
Hi Mike, I started digging through some of my old stuff, been suffering from insomnia lately so get about 3-5 extra hours in the middle of the night. between Auditor Magazines and other sources, I used to love that web site tracking all course grads from the lady in San Francisco, I see indications of as few as 0 clears in a year (when some new tech fad comes in) to 3,100 in a single year (when a different technical fad comes in). But the average over history is a very stable thousand or so a year. Really hard to believe that when we were in, this was not seen as an outpoint. Hope all is good in your wold.
As a fellow clear myself (#59,420), I’m not reacting to this negative piece. My TRs are in and I’m cause over all 8 dynamics. Even when times look tough I’m rolling up my sleeves and DOING something about it. If you want to know what Scientology is about read a book. Don’t listen to critics who make a living accusing the church of human rights abuses. Have there been cases of human trafficking, forced abortions, slave wages, credit card fraud, yada yada yada from the most ethical organization on the planet? Give me a break.
If you want to know what Scientology is about read a book.
I have a suggested book: A Billion Years
/micdrop or /Mikedrop 🙂
Howie has GOT to be kidding.
Yes Mary – Howie must be joking, right? Such an odd post from him.
Unlucky, you almost had 69,420. Just one digit off. I’m rooting for you next go around, on target two.
I’m very “curious”, do you even know who’s blog you are commenting on???
So Mr.Spinner I assume you have perfect recall, a much higher than average IQ and no need for reading glasses?
Assume that you can just kiss my ass!
Don’t forget, in Mike’s book, Mike says, “My book contains all the answers to all your questions. Just buy my book. Buy my book! Buy my book! Buy my book!
LOL I think I’ll pass on kissing your ass. But I asked you a simple question and I obviously pushed one of your buttons. My auditor used to tell me that a clear had no more buttons to be pushed. Apparently he was wrong. And I will assume you really don’t have the perfect memory that is promised in ‘Book 1″.
And furthermore why are you changing the subject to Mike’s book? I bought Mike’s book and I am enjoying it but I was asking if you, as a Clear, had obtained all of the super human abilities that Hubbard describes in Dianetics. All you did was tell me to kiss your ass, even a wog could come up with the statement like that.
Well, Howie, LRH did say that Books make Booms. So if this tech is correct, then purchases of Mike’s book should get more people to subscribe to this blog as well as increase viewership of Scientology and the Aftermath. We’ll just have to wait and see.
I thought you COS people weren’t supposed to read negative stuff on the internet. You had better report yourself. Or we can help you leave after you find out the truth.
Criminal conviction for organised fraud, Paris, France. Appeals all the way to the European level failed, one after the other. The organisation is guilty, Guilty, GUILTY! 😉
https://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-paris-trial-coverage-2009-2013.html
Other book recommendations include “A Piece of Blue Sky” and “Bare-faced Messiah”
Are you being sarcastic? I can’t tell but then again, I’m just a wog
What are you doing trolling and commenting on an SP’s blog, with all the rest of us SPs here, Mr. “Most Ethical Organization on the Planet”?
Surely you know what an egregious ethics violation it is to knowingly fraternize with SPs, right Howie?
If Co$ is truly the most ethical organization on the planet, why do y’all create so many SPs?
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN CONDITION -LRH
Welcome back Howie. Good to see you’re not reacting to this piece.
You’re cause over all 8 Dynamics hey? Yeah it really shows.
BTW – How’s your master going? Still having fun playing dodgem with all those servers. I think his dynamics want to have a chat with him. You know communicate – the thing a Scientologist does best.
Just love the example of how much “being cause” a Scientologist truly displays – real splurging like it is… I trip over so many Clears just getting to my car every morning I wear knee guards.
Howie, why should I listen to anyone who makes a living selling books (which accuse various people including doctors and ‘psychs’ of all sorts of things), either?
There isn’t anyone I can talk to in Scientology who’s not trying to make money off people one way or another whether in search of book commissions, ‘stats’ and staff pay, FSM commissions, etc. is there?
And have you read books on things you criticize, like say Freud on psychiatry — or do you believe as Hubbard apparently did and scientology does, that some things are so corrupt and dangerous that you don’t need to read about them or try them for yourself, to accept and know that they’re abusive and unethical?
and I quote:
“As a fellow clear myself (#59,420), I’m not reacting to this negative piece.”
reaction noted
“As a fellow clear myself (#59,420), I’m not reacting to this negative piece.”
Well, friend, you just did. Although you don’t seem all that “clear” about that…
Y’all can just sit on his face and spin.
Are you sure your TR’s are in?
New aftermath foundation merch idea. Custom clear bracelets. I’d buy one. Put whatever name and number on them you want. Or no number at all.
Ha! I could make them for the foundation (and I would!) out of clear acrylic. That would be epic.
If you’re interested, shoot me an email.
Wait!!… make them Non-Clear bracelets!!!
We have “SP” bracelets available at the SP Shop. They look just like the real thing but they say SP instead of the S snd Double Triangle…
I have 2 of the sp bracelets. Just think it’d be neat to have a “replica” of the real ones like the one in the picture.
Could call them “foggy” bracelets haha
I mis-read as “After Math Foundation” for people who can’t add up.
It all sounds like something from The Twilight Zone to me.
Well Mike, if your “Clearness” is still counted then I guess mine is too. Even though years after attesting the C/S at the mission told me “oh wait, you really didn’t make it, there is more to do”. Sold my clear bracelet to a pawn shop for $50. If the cult is still counting you and I shame on them for false reporting. But wait! Fraudulent claims is all for the greater good…..as usual.
Not so sure dreams are all they are cracked up (or down) to be, Scientology lives in one. Then you wake up or are woken up. That’s it! That’s as good as it gets and dreams are so damned hard to remember.
If you had a dream you were once a Clear, try to make it reoccurring and/or timeless, because it doesn’t fit in the real word where money and lies reside.
COB gets his out of a bottle by himself in a concrete bunker- perhaps he’s onto the tech underling what he really peddles. Scientology is a delusion – just look at it, it’s right there plain as day to see. But those damn dreams muddy it up.
Christmas is coming up – now, that’s a better anticipation than most! It’s a dream too, a good one, but that is also fleeting as it’s gone in one single day. Luckily it happens yearly though. As one ages, I find you really have to polish it a bit harder every year. Young people find it easier.
Just curious Mike, do they still count you as one of the 75,906 clears?
For sure…
AND, I’m sure, Me, as well: #5875. Of course, I crashed BIG time just afterwards, and 42 years hence, I show NONE of the attributes of “clear”; ANY of the definitions which have been floated on 72 or so years. GREAT science, that: Can’t even settle on what it is they’re shooting for. And it was SO DEFINITE back in May 1950. Recently, I’ve heard similar called “moving the goalposts”, but they’re moving them further out of reach.
Which boosts the “donations, I guess. And then, on a whim, Dwarfenführer decides to cancel all certifications and everything has to be re-done – at full cost again, of course; PLUS any extra idle org expenses and IAS status advancements
I attested to “Dianetic Clear” around 1979 and my number was in the 8000s. They told me the number was important and I should remember it but I forgot anyhow. If it was a really cool number like 8080 or 8666 or something I probably would have remembered. I blew shortly thereafter because of the price increases so happily enough nobody had a chance to tell me that I wasn’t REALLY Clear and needed a redo so I’m sure I’m still included in the total count. Thank goodness!
(joke)
To inflate the numbers, they of course never remove anyone from the rolls, not if they’ve died or been declared, or ANYTHING else. Even with all that, they have never made “clears” fast enough to overcome population growth.
🙋♀️ HERE!
Things are clearly different inside of the bubble than outside of it.
(I just punned, didn’t I?)
The state of clear does not exist. It is a figment of their imagination, plain and simple. It does not exist.
But people will still ruin their lives to get there. Oh. well.
…. The delusion is … a Cleared Planet away from reality..
A true card carrying Scientologist can’t agree on anything with anyone else that isn’t. Hubbard’s definition of reality tied it all up in neat little bow. There can only be one source (no matter how many lies it swims in).
Per their think, Scientology truly is a “one size fits all” and they’ll never let you forget it -KSW1 says so and you’ll read it thousands of times, just to make sure you don’t forget it!
The really annoying thing about Scios is that they never grasp that no one ever completes the Bridge – it’s their business model that no one is ever allowed to route out on a one way ticket. Sigh… in so many ways Scientologists are stupid, it is mind blowing in itself!