The Bible, being a record of the work of the Spirit through history, is a most valuable source for such vicarious experiences. We may also look to more recent records and the experience of those we know, and should not neglect our own journals. It is all too easy to forget an experience of divine guidance that we may have been blessed with in the past, when we are overwhelmed with a dilemma in the present. The practice of thanksgiving helps to banish forgetfulness and allows us to grow throughout our lives. Clearness is a deep inner certainty based on spiritual discernment.
Clearness takes time.
It cannot be achieved for a Meeting or an individual while there is an impediment or stop in the mind. Friends' testimony is that with divine assistance and others' help, the liberation and assurance of true clearness will come. Their initiation, however, differs. When the decision is reached, the work of the Committee ceases. The latter two kinds of Committee last much longer than a Clearness Committee.