HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
23 Hancock Street, Joubert Park, Johannesburg
HCO BULLETIN OF 28 JANUARY 1961

Continental HGCs
Copy to Sthil
Eventual Franchise

NEW ASSESSMENT SCALE
I have developed a new assessment scale which takes in most possible formulas and regimens.

The scale and its use follows:
The Pre-Havingness Scale
Havingness
Failed Havingness

Interest
Failed Interest

Communication
Failed Communication

Control
Failed Control

Help
Failed Help

Overts
Failed Overts

Withholds
Failed Withholds

Importance
Failed Importance

Leave
Failed Leave

Protect
Failed Protect

Abandon
Failed Abandon

Inverted Help

Inverted Control

Inverted Communication

Inverted Interest

Obsessive Can’t Have

This scale may have other points I have not located yet.
ITS USE
The use of the Havingness Scale in auditing is as follows:
Havingness is the make-break point of a case. Before havingness can be tested for, all heavy areas on the lower part of the scale must be flat.
The most elementary use of the scale and the one recommended at this time is to assess the points on the scale upwards until a fall is observed and then to run this fall out. Then to assess again from the bottom until a fall is observed and run it out.
All auditing to be done in Model Session form. The assessment follows either after the rudiments or after a discovered button has been flattened.
The upper nine points of the scale are best run as Regimens (from Help upwards).
I have not accumulated cases using this type of approach on this scale but I feel, by past experience, that it should catch even those cases that ”failed help” hasn’t reached.
I do not know how long it should take to flatten one button on this scale. I would guess, from failed help down, that it would take a few hours per button.
Probably this will develop into running pairs as in all formulas but until it is established how that should be done, the above simple system should be used.

L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:aec.jh 

[This HCOB was later reissued from Saint Hill Manor on 9 March 1961 with the distribution, ”Continental HGCs, Franchise”.]