6110C04 SHSpec-61  The Prior Confusion

     A chronic somatic is the stuck point on the time track which is the
stable datum of a prior confusion; so is a hidden standard.  It's easy to miss
this because the confusion is earlier and is confusing.  The stable datum
isn't in the middle of it if it's aberrative.  You can always adopt a stable
datum in the middle of a confusion.  It's the one chosen later that sticks you
on the track.  This isn't necessarily logical.  It is true because it is
observed to be true, not because of any theoretical reason.  The way to blow
the chronic somatic is to blow the confusion immediately before its start.  It
may be tricky to get the PC to look at the confusion, not at the stable datum;
his attention bounces to later periods.  The confusion has a lot of
unknownness in it, which may be masked by a lot of pretended knowingness.

     When looking for the prior confusion, don't get just whatever was there
right before; it may be six months earlier.  Lots of odd forgettingness turns
up as you look.  Forgettingness is caused be inability to confront a motion.
The confusion area is a not-know area, which the guy handles with a know
later, even if it's stupid and painful.  It's still a knowingness.  All
psychosomatics and hidden standards are a cure for mysteries.

     One can get a feeling of relief following a confusion that isn't really
much relieved.  It can be just from getting a knownness following a
confusion.  A chronic somatic can be a knowingness.  If it's being used as a
hidden standard, it is being used for knowingness.  There must have been some
confusion before it.  [This could be an explanation for the phenomenon of
getting somatics following misunderstood words.]

     It can take some time for the PC to sort out when the somatic started and
what the prior confusion was about when it started.  You can ask, "When did
you notice it earlier?" or, "What happened before you noticed?" It's not a
repetitive command.  You can even, by assessment, get the PC to look at the
confusion accurately enough so it will as-is and blow.

     Where the PC is not making progress on Routine 3, you can bet that the PC
has not done and is not doing the auditing command.  The PC may be being the
auditing command.  He does the command and applies it to some area of the mind
or body and looks at it to see if anything happened.  You are auditing a PC
whose attention is fixed on some special area and is doing something extra
with the command.  It indicates out-ruds, since the PC isn't under the
auditor's control, but is putting in a self-audit step on each cycle.  Any PC
who hasn't gone clear in 150 hours is doing this.  He may resist telling the
auditor what he's doing, also.

     If you ask him, "When did you start to notice the (thing he's complaining
of)?" and he gives a non-sequitur answer, you can see him bounce out of the
confusion and up to PT.  This tells you that you are on the right track.  You
have to direct his attention to the right area to get the confusion; don't
just give him carte blanche to natter about the terminal he's fixated on.
Keep guiding him to the occluded area that precedes the somatic, or whatever.
Ask about confusions or upsets or whatever you can get.  This sounds like a
long process.

     This phenomenon can show up when you run an engram.  You start with the
motionless point and search around to find the earlier action parts.  Just
auditing the motionless part with the chronic somatic in it won't resolve it.
Even when running an ordinary engram as part of Routine 3, if part of the
engram sticks, get the earlier part of the engram.

     A more basic question arises here: "How does a person get stuck on the
track in the first place and why is one on a time track at all?  Could it be
that there's a confusion at the beginning?  What is time?" Maybe it's a
retreat from a confusion we did not care to confront.

     A person's ability to confront confusion could just blow chronic
somatics, but it's not to be counted on.  It might be necessary to get several
hidden standards out of the way.  So it might be well to clean them up well
before getting into prehave levels, using prior confusion assessments and sec
checks.