Research Program / Claims / psychic-abilities-8
Psychic abilities may temporarily fail under test conditions; laboratory tension makes abilities difficult to operate, while spontaneous success in familiar environments is more common.
心灵能力在测试条件下可能暂时失效，实验室紧张使能力不易操作，熟悉环境自发成功更常见。
Concept psychic abilities · Domain Life Motivation and Creative Evolution · 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
Approximately 300 participants randomly complete a crossover design with four sessions each at home and in the laboratory, 100 identical four-alternative forced-choice tasks per session, over a 9–12-month period. Both settings use the same encryption procedure, targets generated after submission, identical video and audit standards, and home self-reports cannot substitute for objective scoring. Each setting is further randomly assigned to either a low-stress or social-evaluation condition to separate location from stress effects; metal detectors and one-way mirrors serve as standardized contextual cues, not to be conflated with target security. Heart rate variability, respiration, and salivary cortisol are monitored at approximately 20 and 40 minutes before and after tasks, at fixed time points; the location × stress interaction and mediation models are pre-registered, with ordinary perceptual tasks as controls.
Suggested paper title
Testing Stress Mediation of Target Identification Across Home and Laboratory Settings
What it would overturn
If the home environment shows audited above-chance recognition that is weakened by random stress manipulation, the hypothesis that 'after excluding sensory information, task performance does not contain additional target information modulatable by stress' would be revised.
Candidate labs / funders
Helané Wahbeh，Institute of Noetic Sciences：压力生理与异常体验; Stefan Schmidt，University of Freiburg：冥想、心理生理与异常认知; David Acunzo，University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies
Specificity of Seth's formulation
It explicitly predicts home superiority over laboratory and a negative correlation between stress and performance, which is distinguishable; but higher home performance alone does not prove anomalous ability; it must simultaneously exceed the corresponding random baseline.
Note
No direct validation was found that simultaneously includes random crossover, equivalent leakage prevention, cortisol and heart rate variability monitoring; mediation correlations do not automatically prove a causal stress mechanism, nor can any negative result be post-hoc explained as tension.
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychic-abilities-8, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychic-abilities-8