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Clear registers 4.0 on the scale. A person who has attained this level is nearly
accident-proof and immune to bacteria. He is exhilarated, eager, strong, able, curious,
ethical, creative, courageous, responsible, and impossible to hypnotize. And yet this
state is only one-tenth of what Hubbard forecasts in the realm of human potential. His
scale goes all the way to 40.0, Serenity of Beingness, but the capabilities of the upper
regions are largely unknown.
Given the circumstances that surrounded the creation of this book, it’s interesting to
read what Hubbard writes about sexual behavior and attitudes toward children. Not only
was he on the run in Cuba with his abducted daughter when he wrote this, he was also
being sued for non-support of the two children from his rst marriage, whom he hadn’t
seen for years. “Sex,” he wrote, “is an excellent index of the position of the preclear on
the Tone Scale.” The highest levels are characterized by monogamy, constancy, a
pleasurable attitude toward sex, and an intense interest in children, although the urge to
procreate is mitigated by the sublimation of sexual desire into pure creative thought. At
3.0 on the scale, sexual interest is diminished but the urge to procreate remains high.
That begins to fall o at 2.5, “not for any reason beyond a general failure to be
interested in anything.” Children are tolerated, but there is little interest in their aairs.
At 2.0, sex becomes revolting and children provoke anxiety. Rape and child abuse
characterize 1.5.
Then Hubbard arrives at a level that preoccupies him, 1.1 on the Tone Scale. “Here is
the harlot, the pervert, the unfaithful wife, Free Love, easy marriage and quick divorce
and general sexual disaster,” he writes. “A society which reaches this level is on its way
out of history.” A mother who is at 1.1 on the Tone Scale will attempt to abort her child.
However, once the child is born, “we get general neglect and thoughtlessness about the
child and no feeling whatsoever about the child’s future or any eort to build one for it.
We get careless familial actions, such as promiscuity, which will tear to pieces the family
security upon which this child’s future depends. Along this band, the child is considered a
thing, a possession.”
Hubbard finished the book and wrote this dedication:
To
Alexis Valerie Hubbard
For Whose Tomorrow May
Be Hoped a World That
Is Fit To Be Free
Hubbard eventually wrote a note to Sara to explain his whereabouts, saying that he
was in a Cuban military hospital, about to be transferred to the States “as a classied
scientist immune from interference of all kinds.” He adds, “I will be hospitalized
probably a long time. Alexis is getting excellent care. I see her every day. She is all I
have to live for. My wits never gave way under all you did and let them do but my body
didn’t stand up. My right side is paralyzed.… I hope my heart lasts.… Dianetics will last
10,000 years—for the Army and Navy have it now.” He concludes by warning that in