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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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| Extrasensory perception is not an unnatural, mysterious, or supernatural phenomenon, but a natural expression of the human personality's greater reality and bro… esp-power §15 · A Pre-registered Multicenter Test of Target Identification Under Sensory Isolation | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Scientists must turn to using the inner senses; otherwise, they can only deal with camouflage patterns and reach a dead end. The only tool more important than a… dreams-projections §2 · Effects of Guided Temporal Imagery Practice on Attentional Networks and Metacognitive Awar… | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth correctly identified the contents of sealed envelopes, demonstrating that the hypothesis that the human personality is independent of matter, space, and ti… esp-power §15 · Sealed-Target Identification with Blinded Scoring and Tamper-Evident Controls: A Pre-regis… | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Through exercises involving moving around objects with the mind's eye and imagining walking, Rob experienced the operation of the inner senses and spontaneously… dreams-projections §2 · Guided Object-Centered Imagery, Spontaneous Visual Experiences, and Reality Monitoring: A … | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The human personality is to some extent independent of matter, physical space, and time; otherwise, many experiences could not be explained. esp-power §15 · Time-Resolved Target Recall and Neurophysiological Monitoring During Cardiopulmonary Resus… | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Through appropriate preliminary suggestion, an individual can induce their own clairvoyant dreams. esp-power §15 · Standardized Pre-sleep Suggestion and Hidden-Target Correspondence in REM Dream Reports: A… | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Consciousness precedes material existence and continuously forms physical reality, which constitutes the operational basis of ESP. esp-power §3 · Intentional Modulation of Quantum Random Outputs: A Pre-registered Multilaboratory Study | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| All actions in the material world have an electromagnetic aspect to their reality; ESP is the process of converting data from one range of electromagnetic energ… early-sessions-5 §207 · Electromagnetic Exposure, Default Mode Network Dynamics, and Hidden-Target Performance: A … | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Electromagnetic instability established in the trance state can open broader reception capabilities, enabling the individual to process information over a wider… early-sessions-5 §207 · Trance-Associated Bioelectric Spectra and Sensory Detection Bandwidth: A Pre-registered Cr… | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Science has used the wrong tools in ESP investigation because investigators unconsciously presuppose a dualistic self, whereas in reality there is only one comp… early-sessions-1 §25 · Self-Concept Framing, Expectancy, and Target Identification Under Sensory Isolation | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Science should allow spontaneity, accept inner data as they are, rather than consistently verifying them through external senses. early-sessions-1 §25 · Spontaneous Experience Sampling and Prospective Target Correspondence: A Pre-registered Lo… | esp Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Expectation characterizes the individual more than any other quality, serves as the framework for constructing material form, and represents a psychological bui… early-sessions-2 §76 · Do Expectancy Profiles Predict Individual Behavior Beyond Established Personality Measures… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| The thyroid has a direct physiological association with expectation; fear and panic can lead to overstimulation, causing the inner subconscious mechanism to cre… early-sessions-2 §73 · Expectancy Modulation of Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Thyroid Responses to Acute Psychosocial St… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Aggressiveness is the result of energy not being clearly channeled; if not successfully processed, it forms expectations that are released into unfortunate cons… early-sessions-2 §76 · Goal Clarity, Arousal Regulation, and Hostile Expectancies in Aggressive Behavior: A Prere… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Great expectations are built on beliefs about the nature of reality, nature itself, and the gifted life; all children are born with such expectations. dreams-evolution-1 §891 · Developmental Origins and Cultural Variation of Positive Expectancies: A Prospective Birth… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Expectations are formed by emotions; emotions have shape and substance in their own domain; expectations are the result of combinations of emotions. early-sessions-2 §76 · Bidirectional Effects of Affect and Expectancy Updating: A Preregistered Longitudinal and … | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Expectation determines which data the individual receives from all available inner data, and interprets these data according to the same expectation. early-sessions-2 §76 · Separating Sensory and Decision Effects of Expectancy on Ambiguous Visual Perception: A Pr… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Expectation of danger creates danger; expectation of success brings success; in the physical realm, 'truth' is often a result of expectation operating. early-sessions-2 §76 · Expectancy Effects on Fuel Consumption Under Manual and Automated Driving: A Preregistered… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Expectation is also influenced by past lives, but this is not sufficient to constrain the current personality. early-sessions-2 §76 · Unverified Autobiographical Reports and Expectancy Development in Children: A Preregistere… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Imagination combined with great expectation can bring about almost any reality within probability; combining expectation with Framework 1 and Framework 2 knowle… dreams-evolution-1 §891 · Imagination and Expectancy Across Controllable and Uncontrollable Outcomes: A Preregistere… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Specific procedure: want something, consciously visualize it approaching the probability frontier, then 'like a pebble' drop it into Framework 2, and with a spe… dreams-evolution-1 §891 · Imagery Scheduling and Attentional Disengagement in Goal Attainment, Prospective Memory, a… | expectation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| A change in the focus of consciousness involves a change in the direction toward which consciousness is pointed, not a change in consciousness itself. early-sessions-4 §175 · Attentional Switching and Stability of Conscious Access After Two and Eight Weeks of Focus… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Science has neglected multiple focuses of consciousness; certain civilizations in the past deliberately employed many focuses of consciousness. dreams-evolution-1 §881 · Historical Evidence and Cross-Cultural Validation of Practices for Deliberate Attentional … | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Events are not initially built up from physical particles; they are the result of mental activity, and the world is formed from the inside outward. dreams-evolution-1 §888; dreams-evolution-1 §898 · Human Intention and Physical Randomness: A Pre-registered Multisite Test With Independent … | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| On the evening of January 10, 1964, Jane spontaneously entered a self-induced trance without deliberate attempt, lasting about three hours, with unusually acute… early-sessions-1 §14 · Sensory Discrimination and Handwriting Kinematics During Spontaneous and Self-Induced Tran… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The physical system is a collective large-scale focus of all self-structures in the group; shifting focus is the primary requirement for perceiving other coordi… early-sessions-8 §409 · Collective Attention and Remote Target Identification Under Sensory Isolation: A Pre-regis… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Hypnosis is a tool for freeing the outer personality from its concentrated focus on the outer camouflage universe, shifting focus to the inner self; its essence… early-sessions-2 §45 · Separating Attentional Reorientation, Expectancy, and Hypnotic Induction With Concurrent E… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The focus of consciousness can be intensified to a highly concentrated state, capable of penetrating time and space as perceived by the individual, like a laser… early-sessions-9 §451 · Focused-Attention Training and Identification of Remote and Future Random Targets: A Pre-r… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The focus of consciousness exhibits a rhythmic tidal pattern; consciousness moves in and out of physical and nonphysical reality, never being fully focused on p… early-sessions-6 §275 · Reproducibility of Waking Attentional Fluctuations and Their Association With Sleep Archit… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| If one does not dream, chemical excess substances that must be released accumulate in the physical body; otherwise physical mechanisms would be clogged by toxin… early-sessions-3 §93 · Dream Reports and Metabolic Biomarkers Within Matched Sleep Stages: A Pre-registered Repea… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 4 |
| Science's main error is excluding consciousness from the material world, whereas in fact energy, consciousness, and matter are one. dreams-evolution-1 §881 · Testing Quantitative Mind–Brain Models With Pre-registered Multimodal Predictions | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Science should use inner senses (the psyche) rather than relying solely on outer senses and material instruments, because existing instruments distort raw infor… dreams-projections §2 · Incremental Validity of Trained Introspection Beyond Calibrated Measurements: A Pre-regist… | focus of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth distinguishes "natural guilt" from "artificial guilt." The former is a preventive measure unrelated to punishment, while the latter accumulates repressed e… personal-reality §635 · Adaptive and Maladaptive Guilt: A Preregistered Test of Construct Validity and Behavioral … | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Deliberately blocking the flow of true aggression leads to distorted pseudo-aggression, causing problems such as war and personal neuroses. personal-reality §634 · Suppression, Assertive Expression, and Arousal Reduction After Provocation: A Preregistere… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Disease, poverty, and similar conditions are moralized and associated with guilt, but this results from distorted ideas rather than natural guilt. personal-reality §649 · Moralization of Illness and Poverty: A Preregistered Cross-Cultural Study of Implicit Asso… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Intentional killing beyond what is necessary for survival is an infringement and is considered a violation of natural guilt. personal-reality §635 · Subsistence Necessity and Intentional Killing: A Preregistered Cross-Cultural Study of Gui… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Guilt is associated with the birth of compassion; a person begins to believe in demons starting when they feel guilt. personal-reality §634 · Developmental Coupling of Guilt, Empathic Concern, and Prosocial Behavior from Ages Three … | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Debt or original sin does not involve guilt in the usual sense; its essence is a challenge facing the personality, not a sin. esp-power §12; early-sessions-1 §21 · Debt–Guilt Semantic Overlap and Moral Appraisal: A Preregistered Cross-Linguistic Study | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Artificial guilt similarly uses memory and projection; unacknowledged artificial guilt, accumulated across generations as repressed energy, upon release leads t… personal-reality §635 · Persistent Guilt, Stress Physiology, and Aggression Across Generations: A Prospective Fami… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| When natural guilt is not confronted, the species retreats to old instinctual remnants, causing both instinct and reason to fail to function properly. personal-reality §635 · Guilt Acknowledgment, Memory Suppression, and Goal-Directed Control: A Preregistered Longi… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Natural guilt is a creative mechanism; following it brings biological integrity and triggers layers of consciousness that were previously closed. personal-reality §635 · Guilt Resolution, Autonomic Regulation, and Metacognitive Accuracy: A Preregistered Random… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Guilt is born simultaneously with free will and behavioral responsibility at the conscious level. personal-reality §634 · Developmental Timing of Guilt, Sense of Agency, and Responsibility Attribution: A Preregis… | guilt Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Hypnosis itself is a crude tool; trained individuals can obtain results more effectively using self-induced light trance states. early-sessions-2 §47 · Autobiographical Recall Accuracy After Self-Induced Absorption and Clinician-Guided Hypnos… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Existence itself can be compared to self-hypnosis; the inner self's complete attention or focus on this particular universe predetermines existence. early-sessions-1 §37 · Attentional Absorption and Experienced Presence Across Hypnotic and Immersive Conditions | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Self-hypnosis can induce trance states, achieve a state of dissociated consciousness, in which ESP abilities frequently manifest. esp-power §15 · Self-Hypnosis, Dissociative Experience, and Blinded Target Identification: A Pre-registere… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Hypnosis is a tool used to release the conscious self's focus on the camouflage universe, redirecting it toward the inner self. early-sessions-2 §45 · Internal and External Attention During Hypnosis: A Pre-registered Behavioral and Functiona… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Natural hypnosis is the default acceptance by the subconscious of conscious beliefs. personal-reality §659 · Self-Suggestion and Clinician-Guided Hypnosis for Chronic Pain: A Pre-registered Noninferi… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| A person's beliefs are like a hypnotic focus; daily inner self-talk continually reinforces these beliefs, and one is one's own hypnotist. personal-reality §659 · Repeated Inner Speech, Hypnotic Induction, and Belief Updating: A Pre-registered Factorial… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| In formal hypnosis, the individual makes an agreement with the hypnotist: to temporarily accept the hypnotist's conception of reality rather than one's own. personal-reality §659 · Instructional Framing, Expectancy, and Hypnotic Responding: A Pre-registered Randomized Ex… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The hypnotic state is a level of awareness in which the personality operates freely, temporarily detached from ordinary physical reality. early-sessions-5 §209 · Default Mode Network Connectivity and Altered Agency During Hypnosis: A Pre-registered fMR… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |