An individual becomes aberrated by additives. His experiences in this universe are usually calculated to degrade and depower him. All you have to do is pick up all of these criss-crosses; you return him to power.

As an individual goes up the tone scale, he is more and more of the dynamics and he is more in each dynamic. You expand your space into the dynamics. You expand your control, your knowledge, and your responsibility into the dynamics.

Now, there can be chronic tone as a body plus thetan, or there can be chronic tone as a thetan. And chronic tone of body plus thetan can be apparently at enthusiasm, whereas…

If Self-determinism is defined as "maximum affinity, reality, and communication," it must be high on the tone scale.

The word control has a nasty connotation. But it is really about something else.