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4199 claims; 789 reviewed against the literature; 654 fundable. Claims are AI paraphrases of Seth\'s statements (not verbatim), each traceable to book and session. English fields are machine-translated; the text search runs on the Chinese original. Programmatic access: Data & API.
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| Claim | Concept / domain | Type | Test. | Status | Refs |
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| The scientific method has reached a dead end because it overemphasizes observable facts and its instruments have inherent distorting effects; it should turn tow… esp-power §15; dreams-projections §2 · Does Structured Introspection Improve Out-of-Sample Prediction Beyond Standard Behavioral … | automatic writing Belief, Ritual, and Mind–Body Effects | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| It is suggested to start automatic writing experiments with a Ouija board, then possibly develop into automatic speaking or automatic writing; one can begin dir… esp-power §2 · Training Order and Cross-Modal Transfer of Agency Alterations in Ideomotor, Handwriting, a… | automatic writing Belief, Ritual, and Mind–Body Effects | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Within the personality there exists an 'inner self-awareness part' that knows its own origin, receives all internal data, maintains contact with the entity, and… early-sessions-1 §28; early-sessions-7 §322 · Interoceptive Metacognition and Voluntary Autonomic Regulation Across Physiological Domain… | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Jane heard a whisper 'twelve-o-five' in a hypnagogic state, verified via pendulum as telemetric reception; on another occasion she terminated a dream experience… early-sessions-4 §153; early-sessions-1 §12 · Prospective Target-Matching Accuracy of Hypnagogic Reports Under Sensory Isolation | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Jane improvised the outline for 'The Expansion of Human Consciousness,' completing it in under an hour; she considered the intuitive process similar to poetic e… early-sessions-6 §246 · Shared Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Spontaneous Outline Generation and Poetry Compos… | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Within the personality there is a part that can simultaneously observe the self and the subconscious, maintaining awareness during dreams, operating as an 'inte… early-sessions-7 §322 · Metacognitive Monitoring and Goal-Directed Problem Solving During Verified Lucid REM Sleep | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| During sleep there exist identifiable but not yet scientifically precisely identified layers of consciousness; in the deep region, a few minutes can be experien… seth-speaks §528; seth-speaks §570 · Subjective Duration and Online Temporal Performance Across NREM and REM Sleep | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Beneath waking perception there exist sleep-like precise stages accompanied by chemical, electromagnetic, and hormonal fluctuations; consciousness intensity has… seth-speaks §570; seth-speaks §8 · Circadian Phase, Endocrine Rhythms, and EEG Predictors of Vigilance Across Chronotypes | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Direct awareness can focus on only a single dimension at a time until some spiritual development is completed; as awareness develops, the ability to process var… early-sessions-3 §107 · Capacity Sharing and Serial Bottlenecks in Concurrent Interoceptive and Visual Awareness | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Expectation is an electrical reality that predicts and creates the actuality of future events in the electrical field, thereby ensuring their existence in some … early-sessions-3 §127 · A Preregistered Multilaboratory Test of Expectancy-Associated Deviations in Hardware Rando… | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Whether one is aware of the contents of the conscious mind determines whether one seeks external treatment—when unaware, one tends to seek external healing meth… personal-reality §640 · Self-Awareness and Subsequent Treatment Seeking: A Longitudinal Study With a Randomized Tr… | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| In certain dream situations, awareness enters a state far from sensory data, not involving imagery, becoming pure knowing. personal-reality §671 · Minimal Subjective Experience During Sleep: A Preregistered Serial-Awakening EEG Study | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Seth recommended regular psychological time experiments supplemented with a pendulum, encouraging self-experimentation as homework to train abilities. early-sessions-4 §153; early-sessions-1 §12 · Effects of Mental Time Practice and Pendulum Feedback on Metacognitive Calibration and Inf… | awareness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The conscious mind is responsible for organizing, arranging, and forming its own beliefs, and attempts to integrate these beliefs into a coherent system; belief… personal-reality §628; personal-reality §659; personal-reality §647 · Conscious Reflection and Belief Network Reorganization: A Preregistered Longitudinal Exper… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| When physicians inform patients they are dying, in some cases 'such a prediction can make death a reality,' while the opposite statement 'can regenerate the pat… personal-reality §654 · Prognostic Communication Framing, Emotional Well-Being, and Survival in Advanced Cancer: A… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| When contradictory beliefs coexist without reconciliation, they trigger a 'battle' within the conscious mind and cause the body's systems to receive conflicting… personal-reality §628 · Belief Conflict, Cognitive Reappraisal, and Autonomic Regulation: A Preregistered Randomiz… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| If a person simultaneously holds two opposing belief systems, the conscious mind may split into different personalities, each corresponding to its own belief sy… personal-reality §628 · Belief Conflict and the Emergence of Dissociative Identity Symptoms: A Prospective Multice… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| A core belief attracts a set of subsidiary beliefs and constitutes a dominant system that filters all experience; incongruent data are set aside as irrelevant, … personal-reality §659 · Core Beliefs and Selective Information Sampling: A Preregistered Test of Belief Network Ce… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Infants first form bonds with parents and thereby internalize society's general concepts; when the primary bond is insufficient to provide security and belongin… dreams-evolution-2 §931 · Attachment Security, Cultural Belief Internalization, and DNA Methylation Across Childhood… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Belief systems directly affect the body's physiological state: in the case of Augustus, a change in belief brought about 'an immediate revival of the body's che… personal-reality §633 · Health Expectancy Training and Postoperative Recovery: A Multicenter Randomized Trial of E… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| If one holds the belief that 'a certain condition always brings displeasure,' then it will be so, and your displeasure then reinforces the condition. personal-reality §614 · Self-Reinforcing Negative Expectancies and Pain: A Preregistered Experimental Test of Perc… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| Current beliefs organize memories that have drifted from the 'past,' rationalizing them; if one examines the past through a belief in 'finding flaws,' one will … personal-reality §657 · Current Appraisals Shape Intrusive Memory and Hippocampal Retrieval Patterns: A Preregiste… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| When contradictory beliefs are held long-term with little reconciliation, a 'battle' unfolds within the conscious mind, leading to adverse bodily reactions and … personal-reality §628 · Persistent Belief Conflict, Diurnal Cortisol, and Autonomic Regulation: A Pre-registered L… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Science using only external senses and physical instruments distorts raw data; internal senses, especially the 'psyche' as a tool, must be used to access basic … dreams-projections §2 · The Incremental Validity of Structured First-Person Reports in Calibrated Physical and Per… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth suggests exploration through the 'first inner sense,' such as using the mind's eye to encircle objects and imaginatively see their backsides, and using inn… dreams-projections §2 · Visual and Tactile Imagery Training for Occluded-Object Inference: A Pre-registered Random… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Thoughts and beliefs feed themselves, possessing an inherent impetus toward growth, development, and completion. personal-reality §628 · Do Beliefs Strengthen Without New Evidence? A Pre-registered Longitudinal Test of Autonomo… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Similar beliefs attract each other electromagnetically and emotionally, causing the conscious mind to form two completely contradictory, independent belief syst… personal-reality §628 · Belief Congruence, Affective Context, and Neural Synchronization: A Pre-registered MEG and… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| To protect the integrity of the body structure, the conscious mind splits itself, turning to and adopting another belief system and its self-image when threat i… personal-reality §628 · Threat-Related Identity-State Transitions and Physiological Regulation in Dissociative Dis… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Prediction itself can influence probabilities and reinforce current belief cues, so some probability lines can sometimes be known in advance. personal-reality §654 · Forecast Practice, Emotional Salience, and Predictive Discrimination: A Four-Week Pre-regi… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Beliefs are relatively more malleable in the so-called unconscious, and changing beliefs is easier in specific altered states of consciousness (e.g., free runni… personal-sessions-2 §664 · Hypnotic Induction and Cognitive Reappraisal in Belief Updating and Fear Extinction: A Pre… | beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The body can detect which diseases are in the air and often sets up preventive measures in advance, manifesting as discomfort you experience. dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Do Pre-symptomatic Airway Responses Predict Environmental Pathogen Exposure? A Pre-registe… | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| At the cellular level, the world exists in the form of social communication; the birth and death of cells are known to all other cells. mass-events §804 · Extracellular Vesicles and Soluble Metabolites Mediate Transcriptional Responses to Neighb… | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| No matter how private the body is, it remains a public, social, biological statement. mass-events §804 · Decoding Physiological State from Human Odor and Visual Cues: A Pre-registered Multimodal … | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Certain viruses considered contagious represent biological communication; when humans are afraid, the body can collect and activate potentially harmful viruses … dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Stress-Associated Reactivation and Shedding of Latent Viruses: Testing Host Benefit in Lon… | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Viruses are usually harmless or inert and beneficial to the body's overall balance; some discomfort caused by viruses is accepted by the body as a welcome trigg… dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Divergent Innate Immune Memory and Clinical Outcomes After Acute Viral Infection: A Prospe… | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Some bodily discomfort may be a preventive statement against other diseases; the body can detect which diseases are in the air and set up preventive measures in… dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Airway Chemosensory and Pattern-Recognition Pathways in Anticipatory Mucosal Defense | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The inherent communication capacity of cells may be called telepathy; in the simplest life structures it is a necessity for communication. early-sessions-3 §121 · Testing Information Transfer Between Physically Isolated Cell Cultures: A Pre-registered M… | biological communication Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Animals and young children are born with a perception of their own biological integrity, which underpins their sense of entitlement to exist within the web of n… mass-events §805 · Early Interoceptive Sensitivity and the Development of Bodily Self-Representation and Safe… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth suggested imagining walking on water before sleep, with inner ear listening and inner eye watching, repeated at least 30–35 times before doing other projec… early-sessions-9 §454 · Presleep Visuomotor Imagery and Repetition Dose in Lucid Dream Induction: A Pre-Registered… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| In experiments, Jane and Rob observed Rob obtaining a colored visual image (a man walking along a road), and Jane's hand and a metal badge sometimes disappeared… early-sessions-1 §12 · Expectancy, Visual Fixation, and Reports of Object Disappearance: A Multimodal Pre-Registe… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| On the return trip, Rob subconsciously suggested that the car's fuel consumption would decrease, and it actually used at least about two quarts less oil. early-sessions-2 §80 · Fuel-Saving Expectancy and Measured Vehicle Fuel Consumption under Controlled Driving Cond… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Certain human beliefs (such as viewing the body as sinful or emphasizing powerlessness) can taint or strain the innate sense of biological integrity, shrink the… mass-events §805 · Body-Related Moral Beliefs, Insular Responses, and Immune Regulation: A Pre-Registered Ran… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| Natural guilt is a creative mechanism; following it brings biological integrity; ignoring it leads to alternative mechanisms such as war or disease to compensat… personal-reality §635 · Reparative Guilt, Cooperative Behavior, and Population Stress: A Multilevel Pre-Registered… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| When survival conditions are not conducive to maintaining basic quality of life, species purposefully avoid survival or even die, or destroy offspring to avoid … mass-events §805 · Environmental Quality and Reproductive Prospects Predict Offspring Abandonment and Filial … | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Animals migrate to seek more favorable conditions and can perceive imminent natural disasters and leave the area. mass-events §805 · Prospective Forecasting of Storms and Earthquakes from Animal Movement and Environmental S… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| The body "falls ill" to utilize new substances in the environment, creating its own preventive medicine or vaccination; this is part of the defense system. mass-events §804 · Transient Viral Interference versus Durable Innate Immune Training after Respiratory Virus… | biological integrity Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Excessive ego control hinders the circulation or use of life energy of the whole personality. early-sessions-8 §407 · Autonomic Reactivity and Recovery During Expressive Suppression: A Preregistered Randomize… | blocking Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Seth stated that specific dates cannot be given because there are unpredictable variables; his concept of time is not the human concept of time. early-sessions-4 §166 · Temporal Calibration and Uncertainty in Prospective Event Forecasting: A Preregistered Ben… | blocking Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Seth encourages conducting one's own experiments, calling them "homework," which can train abilities. early-sessions-1 §12; early-sessions-2 §80 · Training Effects and Transfer Following Structured Home Practice: A Preregistered Active-C… | blocking Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| In darkroom experiments, Rob obtained colored vision with eyes closed, Jane's hands sometimes disappeared, and the same phenomenon occurred with a metal badge. early-sessions-1 §12 · Closed-Eye Color Experiences and Object Fading Under Low Illumination: A Preregistered Psy… | blocking Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |