Research Program / Claims / personal-reality-6
Science should turn to the inner self and develop 'psychological time' states to perceive reality rather than through distorted senses.
科学应转向内在自我，发展“心理时间”状态以感知真实而非透过扭曲的感官。
Concept personal reality · 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
Corresponding to supplementary question 1: First, write the psychological time induction as a fixed audio and conduct a feasibility study with about 30 people; then 240 participants are randomly assigned to psychological time, mindfulness meditation, or relaxation training, matched for duration and expectation, trained for 8 weeks, with 64- or 128-channel EEG and eyes-closed rest recorded before and after. Pre-register theta and gamma frequency bands, brain regions, eye-movement/EMG artifact rejection, and independent test-set classification; then replicate with 120 external participants; total period 18 months. Also include a blinded hidden-target identification task to test whether objective accuracy improves, because frequency changes alone cannot prove access to greater reality.
Suggested paper title
EEG Signatures and Perceptual Accuracy Following Structured Introspective Training: A Pre-registered Active-Controlled Trial
What it would overturn
Only if identification of unknown external information improves while sensory cues are excluded would it challenge the assumption that introspection cannot independently provide such information.
Candidate labs / funders
Richard J. Davidson，University of Wisconsin–Madison，Center for Healthy Minds; Bial Foundation
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Psychological time may offer a standardizable operation, but the cited text specifies no EEG features; theta or gamma predictions are new operationalizations introduced here and cannot be retroactively attributed as specific Seth predictions.
Note
No direct EEG study of this specific induction was found; theta increase may also result from drowsiness, and gamma is susceptible to EMG artifacts; state specificity, test-retest reliability, and objective task performance must be verified simultaneously.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim personal-reality-6, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/personal-reality-6