1952: originally this meant a person who no longer was operating under engram commands, who has been "cleared" of his aberrations. As of 1952 it is a relative word, and can be applied to persons who have raised themselves on the tone scale to a level where they have command of their thinking processes. The ideal clear, of course, would be at 20.0 on the tone scale-a balancing of theta and MEST. As long as they remained at that point, they would be balanced between full cause and effect, capable of assuming cause over anything.

1954: a person who can have or not have at will anything in the universe

1955: simply an awareness of awareness unit which knows it's an awareness of awareness unit, can create energy at will, and can handle and control, erase, or re-create an analytical mind or reactive mind.

1955: somebody who does not have any engrams in present time with him. By actual practice a Clear would have to be a stable thetan exterior since the body itself is composed of energy masses which unfortunately contain engrams

1957: in an absolute sense would be someone who could confront anything and everything in past, present and future

1957: a thetan who can knowingly be at cause over life, matter, energy, space and time, subjective and objective

1957: A scientology clear would be able to confront the physical universe, other bodies, his own body, other minds, his own mind and other beings-without trimmings

1958: from the attainment of "Clears" by L. Ron Hubbard. a person at willing and knowing cause over his own life, his body and his surroundings and without a reactive or subconscious mind.

1963: Book One definition holds exactly true. A Clear is somebody with no "held down fives" in this lifetime

1963: a thetan cleared of enforced and unwanted behavior patterns and discomforts

1965: a clear has no vicious reactive mind and operates at total mental capacity just like the first book said. In fact every early definition of Clear is found to be correct.

1966: a clear is not an all knowing being. A clear is somebody who has lost the mass, energy, space and time connected with the thing called mind.

1968: The Dianetic Clear is now called a Release due to total (Scientology) Clear being so much higher, and total clear, which we are today making in Scientology is completely out of comparison with what Dianetics was trying to do. The Dianetic Clear was: an optimum individual, no longer possessed of any engrams. The Scientology Clear is a person who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the first dynamic (survival for self). A Scientology Clear is a being who has attained this state by completing the Clearing Course and been declared Clear by the Qualifications Division.

Dianetics was the route from aberrated or aberrated and ill human, to capable human, Scientology is the route from human being to total freedom and total beingness.

1968: A thetan (the person himself-not his body or name, his mind or anything else-that which is aware of being aware) who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the first dynamic (survival for self). A clear is a being who has attained this state by completing the Saint Hill Clearing Course and been declared Clear by the Saint Hill Qualifications Division.

1968: A person who has completed Grade VII by erasing his whole bank. He no longer has a reactive mind or time track, and he is again wholly himself and can follow his own basic purposes.

1970 –(1) Dianetic Clear: an individual who has been cleared of all engrams and chains and who has achieved a general tone four; a Dianetic Case Completion; one who through Dianetic processing has become free of those things which make a person susceptible to, and "hold in place", psychosomatic ills, and is a healthy, happy human being. In this book Clear means Dianetic Clear. (2) Scientology Clear: A person who, having received all the processing gains from Dianetics to Grade VI (highest Scientology Release Grade), has then completed the Clearing Course at an Advanced Organization. A Scientology Clear has by definition the ability to be cause over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the First Dynamic.

1974: Clear (noun), A much misunderstood state of being. The word has been used before with other meanings. It has been mistaken as an absolute. It is still used. It is used here as electronics slang and can apply to a chain, an incident or a computation.

1970-1976, ability to be at cause over mental matter, energy, space and time on the 1st dynamic (survival for self)

1975: A Clear in an absolute sense would be someone who could confront anything and everything in the past, present and future

1976: Clear, Theta, an individual who, as a thetan, is certain of his identity apart from that of the body, and who habitually operates the body from outside.

1977-1978: a thetan who can be at cause knowingly and at will over mental matter, energy, space and time as regards the first dynamic (survival for self). The state of Clear is above the release grades (all of which are requisite to clearing) and is attained by completion of the Clearing Course at an Advanced Organization.

1978: A clear in Dianetics, then is simply one whose engrams and locks are erased and who does not become confused, obsessed or impelled by past moments of physical pain. The goal is far, far beyond anything envisioned by such investigators as Freud.

1978: It will readily be seen that the ideal condition would be all theta recovered and no entheta remaining in existence in the individual. The attainment of this ideal is called in Dianetics a "cleared" state. This would be, at this time the end goal of processing.

1982: The band that achieves in a final burst of glory and freedom, the state of clear

1987: an unaberrated person. He is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint. He obtains the maximum pleasure for the organism, present and future, as well as for the subjects along the other dynamics.

1991: Now the state of being cleared was what confused the issue. People wanted to know what they'd be like if they were cleared. A good question. Data accumulated, but not as fast as the questions. The people, cleared, would be better, feel better, be more moral, etc. All that is a matter of record. But the craving for an Absolute caused everyone to put the state called "OT" in place of the condition of "being cleared." Absolutes," in our Axioms, "are unobtainable."

1992: the name of a state achieved through auditing or an individual who has achieved this state. A Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind. He is an unaberrated person and is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint.

1993: A Clear is a person who no longer has his own reactive mind an therefore suffers none of the ill effects that that the reactive mind can cause. The Clear has no engrams which, when restimulated, throw out the correctness of his computations by entering hidden and false data.

A Clear is free with his emotions. He can think for himself. He can experience life unencumbered by inhibitions reactively dictated by past engrams. Artistry, personal force and individual character are all residual in the basic personality of the person, not the reactive mind. Clears are self- confident, happy and generally successful-in both careers and inter-personal relationships.

1993: A Clear is a person who no longer has his own reactive mind. He has vanquished it forever. Without the stimulus-response mechanisms of the reactive mind which can cause a person pain, unwanted sensations and negative emotions, a Clear can act rather than react. A Clear has a very high degree of personal integrity and honesty, and is living proof that man is basically good. His own basic beingness returns and his own basic personality flourishes. A person loses all the fears, anxieties and irrational thoughts that were held down by pain in the reactive mind and, in short, regains himself when he goes Clear.