Research Program / Claims / psychic-abilities-1

Extrasensory perception is not unnatural or supernatural, but part of a greater reality and awareness possessed by the human personality.

超感知觉并非不自然或超自然，而是人类人格拥有更大现实和觉知的一部分。

Concept psychic abilities · Domain Life Motivation and Creative Evolution · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status contested · ★ 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)

esp-power §15

Adjudicating experiment

The ontological claim cannot be adjudicated as a whole; its necessary empirical premise can be tested: whether a person can acquire target information after excluding known information channels. Conduct a pre-registered, multi-center four-alternative forced-choice identification experiment with approximately 1000 participants, 200 trials per person, over a 12-month period; targets are independently randomly generated, participants, on-site experimenters, and raters are blinded, a hierarchical model handles repeated measures, effect sizes, exclusion rules, and stopping rules are pre-specified, and independent replication is arranged.

Suggested paper title

Information Acquisition Under Sensory Isolation: A Preregistered Multicenter Study

What it would overturn

If reliable identification of unknown targets under isolated conditions occurs, it would modify the hypothesis that human acquisition of external information depends on known sensory channels or existing knowledge inference.

Candidate labs / funders

Zoltan Kekecs：透明重复实验及研究方法; Etzel Cardeña：意识与异常体验研究; Institute of Noetic Sciences：异常信息获取与意识研究; BIAL Foundation：曾资助透明预知重复实验

Specificity of Seth's formulation

"Natural" or "greater reality" lacks operational definitions; compared with existing extrasensory perception hypotheses, no new distinguishable predictions are added.

Note

This review was searched as of 2026-09-06; contested pertains to the empirical premise of extrasensory perception, the ontological interpretation remains unvalidated; all sample sizes are planned magnitudes, formal implementation must simulate power based on minimal meaningful effects and clustering structure, who only indicates research similarity, not endorsement of Seth or commitment to participation.

Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)

The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. — Etzel Cardeña (2018), American Psychologist
作者认为汇总证据支持异常信息获取，但这是有争议的解释，不能证明人格具有更大现实。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000236)
Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project — Zoltan Kekecs 等 (2023), Royal Society Open Science
多实验室透明重复实验的预知猜测正确率为49.89%，随机水平为50%，未复现原效应；它检验预知，不涵盖所有超感知觉。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191375)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychic-abilities-1, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychic-abilities-1