Research Program / Claims / conscious-self-12

On January 10, 1964, Jane experienced a self-induced trance state lasting about three hours, with weightlessness, unusually acute sensory perception, and handwriting that became extremely small and unlike her own.

珍于1964年1月10日经历约三小时自我诱导出神状态，失重、感官异常敏锐，笔迹变得极小且不像自己。

Concept conscious self · Domain Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration · case evidence · 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
The historical part involves checking original manuscripts, contemporaneous records, and witness materials over about 3–6 months; missing physiological data cannot be retrospectively supplemented. The prospective part recruits about 80 skilled self-hypnosis practitioners and 80 matched controls, randomized crossover between self-hypnosis and expectancy-matched relaxation, each about 3 hours with exit criteria, over 12 months; continuous weight measurement, tablet-based letter height and kinematics, auditory-visual-tactile signal detection, and subjective lightness ratings are collected to test physical weight, objective sensitivity, and sense of agency.
Suggested paper title
Perceived Weightlessness, Sensory Discrimination, and Handwriting Kinematics During Self-Induced Trance
What it would overturn
Subjective lightness and handwriting changes do not overturn existing models; only a persistent objective weight anomaly after excluding physiological and measurement factors would challenge current mechanical explanations.
Candidate labs / funders
David Spiegel，斯坦福大学，研究催眠; Quinton Deeley，伦敦国王学院，研究暗示与异常行动体验
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The date, duration, and handwriting size improve archival verifiability, but baseline and concurrent measurements are lacking; weightlessness may refer to experience rather than mass reduction, and heightened sensory perception may refer to salience rather than detection ability.
Note
No peer-reviewed paper directly verifying this event was found; Yale University holds the Jane Roberts Papers as an archival entry point, but archive existence does not confirm the mechanism. [Archive catalog](https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/4482.pdf)
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Using suggestion to model different types of automatic writing — E. Walsh、M. A. Mehta、D. A. Oakley、D. N. Guilmette、A. Gabay、P. W. Halligan、Q. Deeley (2014), Consciousness and Cognition
    相邻机制能解释笔迹行动的陌生感，但没有验证珍在1964年的事件、微小笔迹或客观感官增强。[论文](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24657632/)
  • Brain Activity and Functional Connectivity Associated with Hypnosis — Heidi Jiang、Matthew P. White、Michael D. Greicius、Lynn C. Waelde、David Spiegel (2017), Cerebral Cortex
    催眠具有可测神经相关变化，使出神体验可纳入实验研究，但不能据此追认某次历史个案。[论文](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27469596/)

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