Research Program / Claims / altered-states-of-consciousness-12

Recommends seriously beginning out-of-body travel as a hobby, imagining oneself stepping into or moving through environments in paintings, and fixing two nights per week for attempts.

建议认真开始出体旅行爱好，想象自己走进或穿行于画中环境，并固定每周两个晚上进行尝试。

Concept altered states of consciousness · Domain Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics · methodological suggestion · 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
Approximately 180 participants randomly assigned to three groups: walking-into-picture imagery, equally vivid imagery without bodily movement, or active relaxation; fixed two nights per week for 8 weeks, tracking compliance, expectancy, sleep, and discomfort. Pre-register out-of-body experience criteria, frequency, and bodily localization endpoints; select about 60 participants for laboratory PSG to distinguish wakefulness, sleep-onset imagery, and REM. To test objective out-of-body perception, generate isolated targets randomly after practice begins, automatically save answers and blind scoring; multi-center independent replication. Total duration 9-12 months.
Suggested paper title
Twice-Weekly Scene-Immersion Imagery and Changes in Self-Location: A Pre-registered Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
Inducing subjective out-of-body sensations will not overturn multisensory and imagery theories; only repeatable identification of isolated targets would challenge the assumption that 'such experiences' information comes from normal sensation, memory, and imagination.'
Candidate labs / funders
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience，Olaf Blanke; Institut du Cerveau — DreamTeam，Isabelle Arnulf、Delphine Oudiette
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Provides imagery content and weekly frequency, forming a replicable procedural sketch; but lacks single-session duration, total training period, success rate, or a prediction that two nights are superior to other frequencies.
Note
No direct randomized validation of this exact practice was found; vividness, loss of body sensation, or dreams during practice should not be automatically judged as objective spatial travel.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

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