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Physical time is camouflage; psychological time belongs to the inner self and is a natural pathway connecting the inner and outer worlds.

物理时间是伪装，心理时间属于内我，是连接内在与外在世界的天然路径。

Concept time · Domain Nonlinear Time and Self-Cognition · ontological claim · 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)

dreams-projections §2

Adjudicating experiment

For Question 3: first publish the original exercise text, a standardized script, and implementation checks. Then recruit approximately 300 novices and randomly assign them to three groups: psychological-time practice, passive relaxation, or expectancy-matched active attention training. Participants would practice for 20 minutes daily for seven consecutive days, with follow-up on day 14. Pre-register ratings of time passage as the primary outcome, with the bisection point, temporal-reproduction bias, and variability as secondary outcomes. Record adherence, expectancy, and sleep, and blind assessors and analysts; participants cannot be fully blinded. The project would take approximately six months and would adjudicate only the training effect, not the ontology of physical time.

Suggested paper title

Effects of Daily Temporal-Attention Practice on Subjective Time: A Pre-registered Randomized Controlled Trial

What it would overturn

Training-induced changes in time perception would not overturn current cognitive theories. Only evidence of an information channel requiring no known sensory or neural pathway would revise the assumption that information exchange between inner and outer worlds must proceed through identifiable physical channels.

Candidate labs / funders

Marc Wittmann，Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health; Stefan Schmidt，University of Freiburg; BIAL Foundation，相关冥想与时间研究资助方

Specificity of Seth's formulation

This search found no standard protocol sufficient to uniquely identify “psychological-time practice.” If it differs from general meditation only in name, there is no Seth-specific prediction.

Note

Wittmann’s paper appeared online in 2015, but the volume year and DOI include 2014; the basis used for reporting metadata should therefore be noted. Even if a one-week intervention changes the sense of time passage, it may not change judgments of durations on the scale of seconds, and vice versa.

Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Subjective expansion of extended time-spans in experienced meditators — Marc Wittmann；Simone Otten；Eva Schötz；Anna Sarikaya；Hanna Lehnen；Han-Gue Jo；Niko Kohls；Stefan Schmidt；Karin Meissner (2015), Frontiers in Psychology
相关横断面研究比较资深冥想者与对照，不能证明短期心理时间练习有效或物理时间是伪装。[论文](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01586)
Changes in Subjective Time and Self during Meditation — Damisela Linares Gutiérrez；Stefan Schmidt；Karin Meissner；Marc Wittmann (2022), Biology
20分钟冥想可以伴随主观时间体验改变，但该研究不是赛斯练习的随机试验，也未检验独立于感官的内外通道。[论文](https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11081116)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim time-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/time-6