How can you find an individual on this tone scale? How can you find oneself?

If you can locate two or three characteristics along a certain level of this scale, you can look in the number column opposite those characteristics and find the level. It may be 2.5, it may be 1.5. Wherever it is, simply look at all the columns opposite the number you found and you will see the remaining characteristics.

A more extensive explanation of this chart appears in the book Self Analysis by L. Ron Hubbard, which also contains self-administered Dianetics techniques designed to raise you to higher levels of this tone scale. Copies of this book may be obtained here.

Wherever you are on the tone scale, you can get to the top of the scale again. Dianetics shows you how.

When a man is nearly dead, he can be said to be in a chronic apathy. And he behaves in a certain way about other things. This is 0.1 on the Tone Scale chart.

When a man is chronically in grief about his losses, he is in grief. And he behaves in certain ways about many things. This is 0.5 on the chart.

When a person is not yet so low as grief but realizes losses are impending, or is fixed chronically at this level by past losses, he can be said to be in fear. This is around 1.1 on the chart.

An individual who is fighting against threatened losses is in anger. And he manifests other aspects of behavior. This is 1.5.

The person who is merely suspicious that loss may take place or who has become fixed at this level is resentful. He can be said to be in antagonism. This is 2.0 on the chart.

Above antagonism, the situation of a person is not so good that he is enthusiastic, not so bad that he is resentful. He has lost some goals and cannot immediately locate others. He is said to be in boredom, or 2.5 on the tone scale chart.

At 3.0 on the chart, a person has a conservative, cautious aspect towards life but is reaching his goals.

At 4.0 the individual is enthusiastic, happy and vital.

Very few people are natural 4.0s. A charitable average is probably around 2.8.

Get the Chart and examine it to find in the boxes, as you go across it, the various characteristics of people at these levels. Horrible enough these characteristics have been found to be constant. If you have a 3.0 as your rating, then you will carry across the whole chart at 3.0.

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