Research Program / Claims / conscious-self-8
Theoretically, related phenomena can be tested by measuring blood pressure and body weight before and after a trance state—if weight decreases, it would constitute an observable anomaly.
理论上可透过测量入神状态前后的血压与体重来检验相关现象——若体重减少将构成可观测的矛盾。
Concept conscious self · Domain Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration · testable prediction · 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
First, determine equipment and physiological noise with about 20 participants; then conduct a randomized crossover trial with about 100 participants undergoing self-hypnosis, ordinary relaxation, and simulated trance, each condition about 90 minutes, repeated twice, over 6–12 months. Use continuously calibrated weighing platform, blood pressure, respiratory gas exchange, and humidity monitoring; record excretion, clothing, posture, buoyancy, and instrument drift; pre-register a persistent residual exceeding complete mass balance and measurement uncertainty; replicate in an independent laboratory.
Suggested paper title
Continuous Body-Mass Balance and Cardiovascular Responses During Self-Hypnosis: A Pre-registered Crossover Study
What it would overturn
Only a reproducible mass residual after excluding matter exchange, external forces, and instrument error would challenge current physiological mass balance models; weight decrease alone does not challenge conservation laws.
Candidate labs / funders
David Spiegel，斯坦福大学 Center on Stress and Health，研究催眠与生理反应
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Provides specific measured variables but does not specify magnitude of decrease, duration, or conditions excluding ordinary weight changes; therefore, it is not yet a complete anomaly prediction.
Note
No qualified DOI paper directly testing abnormal immediate weight loss during trance was found; hypnosis-assisted multi-week weight loss studies are irrelevant, and blood pressure changes are not evidence of anomalous energy loss. [Adjacent research team](https://med.stanford.edu/stresshealthcenter)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim conscious-self-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/conscious-self-8