Research Program / Claims / clairvoyance-11
Seth recommends practicing visual imagery exercises for the first inner sense, such as imagining the back of objects and using inner touch to perceive the surrounding environment.
赛斯建议做第一内感官的视觉想象练习，如想象物体背面、用内触感知周边环境。
Concept clairvoyance · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · 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 900 participants are randomly assigned to three groups of about 300 each: visual and inner-touch imagery, conventional mindfulness, and an active control matched for duration and expectancy; each group practices 20 minutes daily for 4 weeks, with a 4-week follow-up, and the total project spans 12–18 months. Evaluators and analysts are blind, and intervention expectancy is measured and matched; pre-test, post-test, and follow-up each include 200 computer-based five-alternative forced-choice tasks, with independent sampling with replacement ensuring a random baseline of 20%. Future targets must be generated only after responses are locked; pre-existing hidden targets are addressed in a separate secondary task. The primary comparison is the baseline-adjusted between-group difference in hit rates, while also requiring the experimental group to reliably exceed chance, not just relying on within-group improvements.
Suggested paper title
Effects of Four-Week Visual and Tactile Imagery Training on Random-Target Identification: An Expectancy-Controlled Randomized Trial
What it would overturn
If training improves identification of new targets under conditions without usable cues, it would challenge the assumption that imagery practice can only alter internal representations and processing of existing information, and cannot add external random information.
Candidate labs / funders
Joel Pearson，University of New South Wales，Future Minds Lab；意象及直觉的相邻研究，见[官方简介](https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/joel-pearson)。; Chris A. Roe，University of Northampton；异常信息获取的实验研究，见[官方简介](https://www.northampton.ac.uk/directories/people/chris-roe/)。
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The practice content is relatively specific, but the 4-week dosage, mindfulness control, and Zener task are added research designs; the given statement does not explicitly predict the magnitude of training effects.
Note
No randomized controlled trial exactly matching this set of exercises was found; improvement in imagery experience and improvement in hit rates for hidden or future targets are distinct endpoints, and participants generally cannot be truly blind to the practice content.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim clairvoyance-11, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/clairvoyance-11