Research Program / Claims / channeling-12

In a dark-room experiment on January 4, 1964, Jane reported that her hand and the badge sometimes "seemed to disappear," and Rob obtained colored visions with his eyes closed.

珍在1964年1月4日黑暗实验中报告手和徽章有时“似乎消失”,罗在闭眼时获得彩色幻象。

Concept channeling · Domain Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity · experiment record · 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
Approximately 120 ordinary participants and 40 with relevant experience complete, in random crossover, conditions of dim-light gazing at hand and badge, normal illumination, eyes-closed darkness, and homogeneous visual field; each session 10–20 minutes, repeated across two days, with a total period of 6–9 months. Quantify illumination, fixation, blinking, dark adaptation, and drowsiness; continuously record subjective disappearance and color experiences, supplemented by eye tracking, EEG, and infrared object recording. Randomize neutral instructions versus phenomenon suggestion to estimate expectancy effects. The historical event itself can only be supplemented by checking contemporary records and cannot be confirmed by modern replication experiments.
Suggested paper title
Object Fading and Closed-Eye Visual Imagery Under Low Illumination: A Pre-registered Replication Study
What it would overturn
Reproducing "seeming to disappear" or eyes-closed colors does not overturn mainstream hypotheses; they are compatible with sensory adaptation and internal visual activity.
Candidate labs / funders
Giovanni B. Caputo,弱光视觉错觉研究者; Timo T. Schmidt,Ganzfeld与意识状态研究者; Marc Wittmann,Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Provides date, scenario, and experiential content, suitable for reconstructing the paradigm; but lacks illumination, gaze duration, repetition counts, and objective records, and offers no predictions that distinguish these from ordinary perceptual phenomena.
Note
untested refers to the specific experimental record of Jane and Rob; similar subjective visual phenomena have support. The original claim only says "seemed to disappear" and should not be escalated to physical disappearance of objects.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim channeling-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/channeling-12