Research Program / Claims / natural-hypnosis-12
Seth encourages Rob to practice 'first inner sensing' (e.g., using the mind's eye to see the other side of objects, imagining walking).
赛斯鼓励罗多做“第一内感”的练习（用心眼看物体另一面、想象行走等）。
Concept natural hypnosis · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · 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
First, distinguish spatial imagery training from unknown-information acquisition. Approximately 300 participants are randomized to object-rotation/imagined-walking training or a time-matched control for 4 weeks; measures include judgments of the backs of known three-dimensional objects and transfer to novel routes, to test ordinary cognitive gains. Separately, under double-blind conditions, four-alternative forced-choice judgments are made on back patterns that are entirely unrelated to the front and randomly selected by an isolation procedure; each participant performs about 100 trials without trial-by-trial feedback; pre-registered primary accuracy, participant-level hierarchical models, and independent multi-center replication; project duration about 6 months.
Suggested paper title
Visual Imagery Training, Spatial Generalization, and Identification of Concealed Random Targets
What it would overturn
Only if random hidden targets can be repeatedly identified after excluding information leakage would the hypothesis that 'imagery content derives from existing representations, inference, and available sensory information' be revised.
Candidate labs / funders
Joel Pearson，新南威尔士大学; Thomas Naselaris，明尼苏达大学; Devin B. Terhune，伦敦国王学院
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The original sentence is merely a practice suggestion without specifying what should improve; ordinary spatial imagery has a scientific basis, but if 'first inner sensing' implies obtaining unknown information, this prediction must be explicitly added and cannot be substituted into the original text.
Note
The backs of known objects can be inferred from shape regularities, and imagined walking can draw on existing spatial memory; only independent randomly hidden targets can distinguish ordinary imagination from additional information acquisition.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim natural-hypnosis-12, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/natural-hypnosis-12