Research Program / Claims / astral-projection-3

The astral body often travels during physical life but always returns to the physical body; during sleep its clairvoyance and telepathy are not hindered by the ego and continuously affect the physical self.

星光体在肉体生命期间常出游但总会回归肉体，睡眠时其千里眼与传心术不受自我阻碍，并持续影响肉体自体。

Concept astral projection · Domain Dream Consciousness and Self-Representation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ 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
Multi-center pre-registered study with 120 sender–receiver pairs; receivers include 60 skilled reporters and 60 matched novices, each pair for 8 nights, over 18–24 months; compare REM, non-REM, and wakefulness; computer-randomized remote pictures or sender emotional induction conditions; neither receivers nor on-site experimenters know the target; dream reports are locked before blind rating. For the emotion question, add an approximately 50-person per group wakeful ERP or fMRI substudy, with pre-registered prefrontal, parietal, and whole-brain analyses; primary endpoint is objective discrimination rate of remote emotion under isolation, with brain activity and subjective intensity as secondary endpoints. A standard visible face recognition task serves as control.
Suggested paper title
A Preregistered Multicenter Test of Remote Target Identification and Emotion Discrimination Across Sleep and Wakefulness
What it would overturn
If remote target information is repeatedly obtained under strict elimination of sensory and information leakage, this would revise the hypothesis that 'interpersonal information acquisition requires known sensory or physical communication channels.'
Candidate labs / funders
Chris A. Roe — University of Northampton, School of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences：[学者主页](https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/persons/chris-roe/); Marina Weiler、Marieta Pehlivanova、Philip J. Cozzolino — University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies：[当前相关论文](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1720998)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The prediction that 'sleep is superior to wakefulness' can be extracted, but no effect size is given; existing anomalous information acquisition during dreams hypotheses make similar predictions, and 'ego hindrance' has no independent operational definition.
Note
'contested' pertains to the sub-proposition of anomalous information acquisition; entity travel, always returning, and continuous influence on the physical body have not received direct support; ERP or fMRI differences in trained individuals also cannot independently prove telepathy.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim astral-projection-3, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/astral-projection-3