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Seth suggested that Jane and Rob hold regular meetings twice a week (e.g., Monday and Wednesday at 9 PM) and that they could use a pendulum for experiments.

赛斯建议珍和罗每周两次定期聚会（如周一和周三晚上9点），并可使用摆锤进行实验。

Concept channeling · Domain Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity · methodological suggestion · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Regular practice: ~240 novices randomly assigned to fixed-time twice weekly, equal-frequency non-fixed time, and waitlist groups for 12 weeks; compare blind target accuracy, compliance, and subjective experience; pendulum and button-press conditions are crossed, with EMG and pendulum trajectory recording. For question 3, an additional ~400-person four-arm trial: success-joy suggestion, positive emotion without success content, general dream recall suggestion, and neutral audio; 2-week baseline, 6-week intervention, 2-week follow-up, with pre-defined out-of-body experiences and daily recording; ~60 participants also undergo sleep monitoring. Audio coding, review, and analysis are blinded; participants are blinded to specific hypotheses and their expectations and group guesses are measured.
Suggested paper title
Practice Regularity, Ideomotor Responses, and Bedtime Expectancy: Pre-registered Randomized Studies of Unusual Subjective Experiences
What it would overturn
Increasing experience reports via regular practice or expectancy does not require overturning mainstream theory; only if the pendulum provides information about unknown targets after excluding cues would it challenge the hypothesis that pendulum answers come from the operator's existing information and ideomotor movements.
Candidate labs / funders
Jay A. Olson，意动与暗示研究者; Amir Raz，催眠与期待研究者; Denholm J. Aspy，清醒梦诱导研究者; Helané Wahbeh，Institute of Noetic Sciences
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Twice a week and specific times are easily operationalized, but the original text is practical advice and does not explicitly claim superiority over other arrangements; the pendulum suggestion also does not specify expected effects.
Note
For question 3: no direct randomized trial was found that success-joy suggestion increases frequency of out-of-body experiences; comprehensible suggestions are difficult to achieve strict participant blinding, so blinding boundaries must be honestly reported, and increases in experience, recall, and reporting bias must be distinguished.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Ask the pendulum: personality predictors of ideomotor performance — Jay A. Olson, Ewalina Jeyanesan, Amir Raz (2017), Neuroscience of Consciousness
    研究摆锤意动表现及其个体差异，支持将摆锤作为意动行为工具；没有证明其获取外部未知信息的能力。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/nix014)
  • Findings From the International Lucid Dream Induction Study — Denholm J. Aspy (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
    355名参与者完成一周基线及一周清醒梦诱导，结果涉及清醒梦和梦回忆，不是成功喜悦暗示提高出体体验频率的直接证据。[论文](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01746)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim channeling-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/channeling-11