-What happens to the spirit after death? Is there an afterlife or reincarnation aspect to the belief? Also, is there any difference in what happens to somebody who is not "Clear" and those who are "Clear" or "OT"?
-How do they explain the fact that "OT"s are obviously not able to use supernatural powers?
-If becoming "Clear" means the harmful thetans who are gone are unable to any longer influence the human, why does the entire "Xenu story" need to be revealed after being cleared? Wouldn't the false truths that they cause be gone already?
-What's the end goal? To gain control of one's own thetan, or is there something else?
Sorry no one's answered you yet. I'll do the best I can.
- After death, you leave the body, and it is such a traumatic experience that death becomes an "engram". Then you go hunting around for a pregnant woman to get a new body (the baby). But there's a chance that you could get sucked into an implant station between lives, because Hubbard says those implant stations are still out there. So if you're OT, you can avoid the implant stations.
That's why you're not supposed to "go towards the light" if you die, because the general idea is that IT'S A TRAP. And if you go towards the light, you'll get sucked into the implant station and forced to forget your past life, given new implants that fuck you up even more.
Then the implant station spits you out, and you go find a baby body to inhabit. Birth is apparently so traumatic that it's another "engram", or it can be, unless everyone is silent, hence the silent birth thingie.
- They don't. They just don't talk about it. Since Hubbard never clearly stated what those superpowers were, except for the fact that you can "control Matter, Energy, Space and Time", people have come up with their own vague interpretations. So some people think it's just a heightened perception about the world, some people think it's the ability to read minds, whatever. But it's never talked about.
- Becoming Clear has nothing to do with getting rid of harmful thetans. Body thetans aren't even mentioned until OT3. Clear is getting rid of your "reactive mind", which is something totally different. You could say that it's getting rid of you "irrational self".
- The end goal? Total control over Matter Energy Space and Time (MEST), the ability to be "cause" over your environment with your super-mind, the ability to exteriorize (leave the body) at will... basically to be returned to what Hubbard believed was your original god-like state.
Hope that's uh, Cleared up for you.