Research Program / Claims / apparitions-7
Some apparitions are thought-forms emitted by surviving personalities in deep anxiety, showing compulsive repetitive behaviors.
有些幻影是处于深层焦虑的存活人格发出的思想形态，表现出强迫型的重复行为。
Concept apparitions · Domain Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable
This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.
Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Conduct a preregistered cross-site study with about 120 pairs of familiar adults over 6 months: one member undergoes a randomly assigned mild stress or neutral task, while the other records presence sensations and image content at a location with no communication; repeat about 12 times, with blind raters comparing reports to real partners, decoy persons, and random time windows. Prespecify repetitive behavior indicators, controlling for the receiver's own anxiety, expectancy, and sleep. This experiment only tests stress-related cross-individual effects and cannot fully replace natural tracking of deep anxiety.
Suggested paper title
Sender Stress and Temporally Matched Perceptual Reports in Isolated Dyads: A Preregistered Study
What it would overturn
If reproducible specific information correspondence appears after excluding ordinary communication, it would challenge the assumption that information transfer between individuals requires known physical channels.
Candidate labs / funders
Marina Weiler，University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies; David Acunzo，University of Virginia School of Medicine, Ray Westphal Neuroimaging Laboratory
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Specifies a surviving source, anxiety condition, and repetitive behavior, potentially discriminable; but lacks distance, latency, hit rate, and independent criteria for thought-forms.
Note
Must distinguish sender anxiety from perceiver anxiety; even if the latter predicts anomalous experiences, it does not support the former emitting thought-forms. [UVA related communication and perception research](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/participate/participate-in-research/).
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim apparitions-7, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/apparitions-7