Research Program / Claims / hypnosis-12

Self-hypnosis can induce trance states, achieve a state of dissociated consciousness, in which ESP abilities frequently manifest.

自我催眠能使你进入出神状态，获得意识分离的状态，在此状态中ESP能力常有显现。

Concept hypnosis · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · mechanism · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ fundable

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Seth sources (book §session)
  • esp-power §15
Adjudicating experiment
Multicenter pre-registered trial with 1200 participants randomly assigned to self-hypnosis training or matched relaxation-and-expectancy training, completing 6 sessions with 20 automated random forced-choice targets each; targets are stored by an independent system, and participants, experimenters, and scorers are blinded to answers, with fixed stopping rules and publication of all trials and audit logs. The primary outcome is between-group accuracy difference and the deviation of the hypnosis group from the 25% chance level, with dissociative experiences measured; repeated measures are analyzed with participants as the statistical unit, over 24 months, with an independent replication phase.
Suggested paper title
Self-Hypnosis, Dissociative Experience, and Blinded Target Identification: A Pre-registered Multisite Study
What it would overturn
If target information could be obtained independently and repeatedly after strictly isolating known channels, it would challenge the hypothesis that "target identification depends on known sensory input, prior memory, and inference."
Candidate labs / funders
BIAL Foundation（相关资助机构）; Zoltan Dienes，University of Sussex，Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science（催眠与统计方法邻近研究）; Benjamin A. Parris，Bournemouth University（自我催眠邻近研究）
Specificity of Seth's formulation
"Frequently manifest" could predict incidence and self-hypnosis advantage over controls, but lacks thresholds and does not specify whether dissociative experience is necessary; existing controversial findings cannot validate this specific causal chain.
Note
Historical ESP studies directly comparing hypnosis and control do exist and cannot be labeled as completely unstudied; their 1994 meta-analysis was not confirmed with a DOI in this review, so it was not included in evidence, while the two above are only proximal evidence; meta-analysis pre-registration does not imply that all historical original experiments were pre-registered.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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