Scientology 0-8 1952 Chapter 16
Chapter 16
Below zero on the tone scale is applicable only to a thetan.
It has been quite commonly observed that there are two positions for any individual on the tone scale. This occurs because there is a position for the composite of the thetan plus his MEST body operating in a state of unknowingness that he is not a MEST body, and behaving according to social patterns, which give him some semblance of sanity. The other position on the tone scale is the position of the thetan himself, and it is necessary for us to demonstrate a negative scale in order to find the thetan at all.
For the thetan you will find the scale as follows :
| THETAN SCALE RANGE Well below body death at '0' down to complete unbeingness as a thetan | |
| 40.0 | Serenity of Beingness |
| 8.0 | Exhilaration |
| THETAN PLUS BODY Social training and education sole guarantee of sane conduct. | |
| 4.0 | Enthusiasm |
| 3.0 | Conservatism |
| 2.5 | Boredom |
| 2.0 | Antagonism |
| 1.8 | Pain |
| 1.5 | Anger |
| 1.2 | No Sympathy |
| 1.1 | Covert Hostility |
| 1.0 | Fear |
| 0.9 | Sympathy |
| 0.8 | Propitiation |
| 0.5 | Grief |
| 0.375 | Making Amends |
| 0.05 | Apathy |
| 0.0 | Being a Body (Death) |
| Below Body Death | |
| -0.02 | Being Other Bodies |
| -1.0 | Punishing Other Bodies |
| -1.3 | Responsibility as Blame |
| -1.5 | Controlling Bodies |
| -2.2 | Protecting Bodies |
| -3.0 | Owning Bodies |
| -3.5 | Approval from Bodies |
| -4.0 | Needing Bodies |
| -8.0 | Hiding |
The sub-zero to 40.0 scale is the range of the thetan. A thetan is lower than body death, since it survives body death. It is in a state of knowingness below 0.375 only when it is identifying itself as a body and IS, to its own thinking, the body. The BODY-PLUS- THETAN scale is from 0.0 to 4.0 and the position on this scale is established by the social environment and education of the composite being and is a stimulus-response scale. The preclear is initially above this 0.375 on the BODY-PLUS-THETAN RANGE. Then, on auditing, he commonly drops from the FALSE TONE of the BODY-PLUS-THETAN scale and into the true tone of the thetan.
This is actually the only self-determined tone present— the actual tone of the thetan. From this sub-zero he quickly rises up scale through the entire range as a thetan and generally settles at 20.0 and in command of the body and situations. The course of auditing then takes the preclear, quite automatically, down from the FALSE TONE of the BODY-PLUS- THETAN SCALE to the actual tone of the thetan. Then the tone of the thetan rises back up the scale level by level.
It is not uncommon to find the preclear (who IS the thetan) quite raving mad under the false “veneer” of social and educational stimulus-response training and to discover that the preclear, while behaving quite normally in the BODY-PLUS-THETAN state, becomes irrational in the course of auditing. BUT DESPITE THIS, the preclear is actually being far more sane and rational than ever before and the moment he discovers himself as himself, as THE source of energy and personality and beingness of a body, he becomes physically and mentally better. Thus the auditor must not be dismayed at the course of tone, but should simply persevere until he has the thetan up into rational range. A raving mad thetan is far more sane than a normal human being. But then, as you audit, observe it for yourself.