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In A-1 state, consciousness can enter another person's body and heal it, and can also perceive the state of its own physical body image.

在A-1状态中，意识可以进入他人身体并治愈它，也能感知自身肉体形象的状态

Concept alternate focus · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · testable prediction · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
First conduct state validation: approximately 180 participants complete alternating focus, expectancy-matched relaxation, and ordinary imagery conditions across 4 weeks, recording spontaneous gestures, EMG, trial-by-trial imagery ratings, VVIQ, and pupil responses; approximately 120 additional undergo fMRI, using cross-day held-out validation to test predictive power of personal gestures. Body information part additionally uses about 200 practitioners, who in no-contact, no-feedback conditions judge hidden physiological indicators of randomly assigned objects, separately from own interoception tasks. If a repeatable effect emerges, then a blinded patient and assessor trial with about 600 people comparing distant intention vs. sham intervention, all retaining standard treatment, with a single wound repair indicator as primary endpoint, intervention 8 weeks; total project 24-36 months.
Suggested paper title
Attentional Refocusing, Bodily Information Accuracy, and Wound Repair: A Pre-registered Blinded Investigation
What it would overturn
If intentional interventions under isolated conditions can repeatedly alter objective repair processes in others, it would challenge the assumption that 'distant intention does not alter recipient physiological outcomes in the absence of identifiable transmission pathways.'
Candidate labs / funders
[Institute of Noetic Sciences：Dean Radin、Marilyn Schlitz等的远距意向研究](https://noetic.org/publication/distant-healing-intention-definitions-and-evolving-guidelines-for-laboratory-studies/); [Joel Pearson：University of New South Wales, Future Minds Lab](https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/joel-pearson); [University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/participate/participate-in-research/)：异常感知相关研究
Specificity of Seth's formulation
A-1 and personal body cues provide candidate state markers but do not form a reliable diagnostic standard; 'entering the body' also lacks an independent criterion beyond accurate identification of hidden information or changing objective outcomes.
Note
Supplementary question 2: no direct validation of this gesture-relaxation-imagery-default-mode combination was found; VVIQ is appropriate for baseline individual differences, state changes should use trial-by-trial ratings, motion artifacts must be controlled, and default-mode activation cannot serve as an A-1 label; adjacent evidence for distant healing is contested, and the original mechanism remains untested directly.
Evidence (3, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim alternate-focus-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/alternate-focus-6