Research Program / Claims / apparitions-9
The personality energy during the post-death transition period may act as a trigger, briefly reconstructing sensory data under specific conditions, thereby explaining various apparitions.
死亡后过渡期的人格能量可充当触发器，在特定条件下短暂重建感官数据，从而解释多种幻影。
Concept apparitions · Domain Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence · mechanism · 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
Recruit approximately 300 recently bereaved adults and follow them for 12 months, measuring experience frequency, sleep, grief, and expectancy via time-stamped diaries; among them, about 60 households and 60 matched controls undergo continuous monitoring for 3 months, recording temperature, humidity, three-dimensional airflow, acoustics, electromagnetic fields, door/window status, and HVAC state. Report windows and random pseudo-event windows are pre-specified, with independent validation data retained and time-series autocorrelation addressed. If the claim includes specific information from the deceased, a pre-mortem sealed target unknown to participants must be additionally set; environmental anomalies alone cannot validate personality energy.
Suggested paper title
Prospective Environmental and Psychological Correlates of Bereavement-Related Sensory Experiences
What it would overturn
If it is demonstrated that deceased-related independent information or physical processes have repeatable causal effects, it will challenge the assumption that these experiences are entirely explained by the survivors' memory, perception, and ordinary environmental input.
Candidate labs / funders
Marieta Pehlivanova，University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies; Ben Alderson-Day，Durham University
Specificity of Seth's formulation
It proposes a post-death temporal stage and trigger function, but 'transition period,' 'energy,' and 'specific conditions' lack quantitative definitions, so it is insufficient to yield unique predictions.
Note
Searches on temperature, airflow, and JSPR leads did not confirm a paper that simultaneously meets the stated continuous measurement content and DOI requirements, so a verified environmental study was adopted; the temperature and airflow claims also are not included in the original claims listed here and should be regarded as additional predictions pending verification. [UVA-related experience research](https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/contact/).
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim apparitions-9, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/apparitions-9