Tone Scale In Full
Tone Scale Examples
The Tone Scale Characteristics 1 - 18 Scientology Handbook
11: Subject's
Handling of Written or Spoken Comm When Acting as a Relay Point
1: Behavior and Physiology


2: Medical Range



3: Emotion



4a: Sexual
Behavior


4b: Attitude Toward Children


5: Command over Environment


6: Actual Worth to Society Compared to Apparent Worth

7: Ethic Level



8: Handling of Truth



9: Courage Level



10a: Speech: Talks



10b: Speech: Listens



12: Reality (Agreement)


13: Ability to Handle Responsibility

14. Persistence on a Given Course


15. Literalness of Reception of Statements

16. Method Used by Subject to Handle Others
17. Hypnotic Level


18. Ability to Experience Present Time Pleasure
4.0: Enthusiasm — Excellent at projects, execution. Fast reaction time (relative to age).

3.5: Cheerfulness — Good at projects, execution, sports.

3.0: Conservatism — Capable of fair amount of action, sports.

3.0: Conservatism — Capable of fair amount of action, sports.

2.5: Boredom — Relatively inactive, but capable of action.

2.0: Antagonism — Capable of destructive and minor constructive action.

1.5: Anger —
Capable of destructive action.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Capable of minor execution.

0.5: Grief —
Capable of relatively uncontrolled action.

0.1: Apathy —
Alive as an organism.

4.0: Enthusiasm —
Near accident-proof. No psychosomatic ills. Nearly immune to bacteria.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Highly resistant to common infections. No colds.

3.0: Conservatism — Resistant to infection and disease. Few psychosomatic ills.

2.5: Boredom — Occasionally ill. Susceptible to usual diseases.

2.0: Antagonism — Severe sporadic illnesses.

1.5: Anger — Depository illnesses (arthritis). (Range 1.0 to 2.0 interchangeable)

1.1: Covert Hostility — Endocrine and neurological illnesses.

0.5: Grief —
Chronic malfunction of organs. (Accident prone.)

0.1: Apathy — Chronically ill. (Refusing sustenance.)

4.0: Enthusiasm — Eagerness, exhilaration.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Strong interest.

3.0: Conservatism — Content.

2.5: Boredom — Indifference. Boredom.

2.0: Antagonism — Expressed resentment.

1.5: Anger —
Anger.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Unexpressed resentment. Fear.

0.5: Grief —
Grief. Apathy.

0.1: Apathy —
Deepest apathy.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Sexual interest high but often sublimated to creative thought.

3.5: Cheerfulness — High interest in opposite sex. Constancy.

3.0: Conservatism — Interest in procreation.

2.5: Boredom — Disinterest in procreation.

2.0: Antagonism — Disgust at sex; revulsion.

1.5: Anger —
Rape. Sex as punishment.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Promiscuity, perversion, sadism, irregular practices.

0.1: Apathy —
No effort to procreate.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Intense interest in children.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Love of children.

3.0: Conservatism — Interest in children.

2.5: Boredom —
Vague tolerance of children.

2.0: Antagonism — Nagging of and nervousness about children.

1.5: Anger —
Brutal treatment of children.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Use of children for sadistic purposes.

0.5: Grief —
Anxiety about children.

0.1: Apathy —
No effort to procreate.

4.0: Enthusiasm — High self-mastery. Aggressive toward environ. Dislikes to control people. High reasoning, volatile emotions.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Reasons well. Good control. Accepts ownership. Emotion free. Liberal.

3.0: Conservatism — Controls bodily functions. Reasons well. Free emotion still inhibited. Allows rights to others. Democratic.

2.5: Boredom —
In control of function and some reasoning powers. Does not desire much ownership.

2.0: Antagonism — Antagonistic and destructive to self, others, and environ. Desires command in order to injure.

4.0: Enthusiasm —
High worth. Apparent worth will be realized. Creative and constructive.

3.5: Cheerfulness —
Good value to society. Adjusts environ to benefit of self and others.

3.0: Conservatism —
Any apparent worth is actual worth. Fair value.

2.5: Boredom —
Capable of constructive action; seldom much quantity. Small value. "Well adjusted."

2.0: Antagonism — Dangerous. Any apparent worth wiped out by potentials of injury to others.

1.5: Anger —
Insincere. Heavy liability. Possible murderer. Even when intentions avowedly good will bring about destruction.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Active liability. Enturbulates others. Apparent worth outweighed by vicious hidden intents.

0.5: Grief —
Liability to society. Possible suicide. Utterly careless of others.

0.1: Apathy —
High liability, needing care and efforts of others without making any contribution.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Bases ethics on reason. Very high ethic level.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Heeds ethics of group but refines them higher as reason demands.

3.0: Conservatism — Follows ethics in which trained as honestly as possible. Moral.

2.5: Boredom —
Treats ethics insincerely. Not particularly honest or dishonest.

2.0: Antagonism —
Below this point: authoritarion. Chronically and bluntly dishonest when occasion arises.

1.5: Anger — Below this point: criminal. Immoral. Actively dishonest. Destructive of any and all ethics.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Sex criminal. Negative ethics. Deviously dishonest without reason. Pseudoethical activities screen perversion of ethics.

0.5: Grief — Nonexistent. Not thinking. Obeying anyone.

0.1: Apathy —
None.

4.0: Enthusiasm —
High concept of truth.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Truthful.

3.0: Conservatism — Cautious of asserting truths. Social lies.

2.5: Boredom — Insincere. Careless of facts.

2.0: Antagonism — Truth twisted to suit antagonism.

2.0: Antagonism — Truth twisted to suit antagonism.

1.5: Anger —
Blatant and destructive lying.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Ingenious and vicious perversion of truth. Covers lying artfully.

0.5: Grief —
Details facts with no concept of their reality.

0.1: Apathy —
No reaction.

4.0: Enthusiasm —
High courage level.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Courage displayed on reasonable risks.

3.0: Conservatism — Conservative display of courage where risk is small.

2.5: Boredom — Neither courage nor cowardice. Neglect of danger.

2.0: Antagonism — Reactive, unreasoning thrusts at danger.

1.5: Anger — Unreasonable bravery, usually damaging to self.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Occasional underhanded displays of action, otherwise cowardly.

0.5: Grief —
Complete cowardice.

0.1: Apathy —
No reaction.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Strong, able, swift and full exchange of beliefs and ideas.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Will talk of deep-seated beliefs and ideas.

3.0: Conservatism — Tentative expression of limited number of personal ideas.

2.5: Boredom — Casual pointless conversation.

2.0: Antagonism — Talks in threats. Invalidates other people.

1.5: Anger — Talks of death, destruction, hate only.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Talks apparent theta, but intent vicious.

0.5: Grief —
Talks very little and only in apathetic tones.

0.1: Apathy —
Does not talk.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Strong, able, swift and full exchange of beliefs and ideas.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Will accept deep-seated beliefs, ideas; consider them.

3.0: Conservatism — Receives ideas and beliefs if cautiously stated.

2.5: Boredom — Listens only to ordinary affairs.

2.0: Antagonism — Listens to threats. Openly mocks theta talk.

1.5: Anger — Listens only to death and destruction. Wrecks theta lines.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Listens little; mostly to cabal, gossip, lies.

0.5: Grief —
Listens little: mostly to apathy or pity.

0.1: Apathy —
Does not listen.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Passes theta comm, contributes to it. Cuts entheta lines.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Passes theta comm. Resents and hits back at entheta lines.

3.0: Conservatism — Passes comm. Conservative. Inclines toward moderate construction and creation.

2.5: Boredom — Cancels any comm of higher or lower tone. Devaluates urgencies.

2.0: Antagonism — Deals in hostile or threatening comm. Lets only small amount of theta go through.

1.5: Anger — Perverts comm to entheta regardless of original content. / Stops theta comm. Passes entheta and perverts it.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Relays only malicious comm. / Cuts comm lines. Won't relay.

0.5: Grief —
Takes little heed of comm. Does not relay.

0.1: Apathy —
Does not relay. Unaware of comm.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Search for different viewpoints in order to broaden own reality. Changes reality.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Ability to understand and evaluate reality of others and to change viewpoint. Agreeable.

3.0: Conservatism — Awareness of possible validity of different reality. Conservative agreement.

2.5: Boredom — Refusal to match two realities. Indifference to conflict in reality. Too carelss to agree or diagree.

2.0: Antagonism — Verbal doubt. Defense of own reality. Attempts to undermine others. Disagrees.

1.5: Anger — Destruction of opposing reality. "You're wrong." Disagrees with reality of others.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Doubt of own reality. Insecurity. Doubt of opposing reality.

0.5: Grief —
Shame, anxiety, strong doubt of own reality. Easily has reality of others forced on him.

0.1: Apathy — Complete withdrawal from conflicting reality. No reality.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Inherent sense of responsibility on all dynamics.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Capable of assuming and carrying on reponsibilities.

3.0: Conservatism — Handles responsibility in a slipshod fashion.

2.5: Boredom — Too careless. Not trustworthy.

2.0: Antagonism — Uses responsibility to further own ends.

1.5: Anger — Assumes responsibility in order to destroy.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Incapable, capricious, irresponsible.

0.5: Grief — None.

0.1: Apathy — None.

4.0: Enthusiasm —
High creative persistence.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Good persistence and direction toward constructive goals.

3.0: Conservatism — Fair persistence if obstacles not too great.

2.5: Boredom —
Idle, poor concentration.

2.0: Antagonism — Persistence toward destruction of enemies. No constructive persistence below this point.

1.5: Anger — Destructive persistence begins strongly, weakens quickly.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Vacillation on any course. Very poor concentration. Flighty.

0.5: Grief —
Sporadic persistence toward self-destruction.

0.1: Apathy —
None.

4.0: Enthusiasm —
High differentiation. Good understanding of all comm, as modified by Clear's education.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Good grasp of statements. Good sense of humor.

3.0: Conservatism — Good differentiation of meaning of statements.

2.5: Boredom — Accepts very little, literally or otherwise. Apt to be literal about humor.

2.0: Antagonism — Accepts remarks of tone 2.0 literally.

1.5: Anger —
Accepts alarming remarks literally. Brutal sense of humor.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Lack of acceptance of any remarks. Tendency to accept all literally avoided by forced humor.

0.5: Grief —
Literal acceptance of any remark matching tone.

0.1: Apathy — Complete literal acceptance.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Gains support by creative enthusiasm and vitality backed by reason.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Gains support by creative reasoning and vitality.

3.0: Conservatism — Invites support by practical reasoning and social graces.

2.5: Boredom — Careless of support from others.

2.0: Antagonism — Nags and bluntly criticizes to demand compliance with wishes.

1.5: Anger —
Uses threats, punishment and alarming lies to dominate others.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Nullifies others to get them to level where they can be used. Devious and vicious means. Hypnotism, gossip. Seeks hidden control.

0.5: Grief — Enturbulates others to control them. Cries for pity. Wild lying to gain sympathy.

0.1: Apathy —
Pretends death so others will not think him dangerous and will go away.

4.0: Enthusiasm — Impossible to hypnotize without drugs.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Difficult to trance unless still possessed of a trance engram.

3.0: Conservatism — Could be hypnotized, but alert when awake.

2.5: Boredom —
Can be a hypnotic subject, but mostly alert.

2.0: Antagonism — Negates somewhat, but can be hypnotized.

1.5: Anger —
Negates heavily against remarks, but absorbs them.

1.1: Covert Hostility —
In a permanent light trance, but negates.

0.5: Grief —
Very hypnotic. Any remark made may be a "positive suggestion."

0.1: Apathy —
Is equivalent to a hypnotized subject when "awake."

4.0: Enthusiasm — Finds existence very full of pleasure.

3.5: Cheerfulness — Finds life pleasurable most of the time.

3.0: Conservatism — Experiences pleasure some of the time.

2.0: Antagonism — Occasionally experiences some pleasure in extraordinary moments.

1.5: Anger —
Seldom experiences any pleasure.

1.1: Covert Hostility — Most gaiety forced. Real pleasure out of reach.

0.5: Grief —
None.

0.1: Apathy —
None.

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