Research Program / Claims / psychic-phenomena-2

In trance states, the electromagnetic aura around the body changes, creating electromagnetic instability that allows the individual to process electromagnetic energy of greater frequencies and ranges.

在出神状态中,身体周围的电磁光环发生变化,造成电磁上的不稳定性,使个体能处理更大频率和范围的电磁能量。

Concept psychic phenomena · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · mechanism · 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
Feasible, but in two stages: Stage 1 recruits 60 practitioners with stable trance-induction ability and 60 matched controls, with repeated measurements during wakefulness, meditation, trance, and simulated trance, using SQUID-MEG or calibrated OPM-MEG, while recording eye movements, EMG, ECG, respiration, and head motion; pre-register spectral power, aperiodic components, non-stationarity, and source-space connectivity metrics. Stage 2 uses an independent sample with safe, double-blind, randomized on/off external fields presenting cross-frequency encoding, testing reception thresholds and information-decoding bandwidth; over 18–24 months. A-5 comparisons may use an exploratory cohort of about 40 per group, but replicable induction procedures and independent state assessments must first be specified; A-5 cannot be defined retroactively by EEG results.
Suggested paper title
MEG Spectral Dynamics and Electromagnetic Detection Thresholds during Experimentally Induced Absorptive States
What it would overturn
If trance were confirmed to enhance electromagnetic information reception beyond known sensory thresholds, it would revise models of human detection thresholds and transduction mechanisms for external electromagnetic signals.
Candidate labs / funders
Matthew J. Brookes;University of Nottingham, Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre; Helané Wahbeh;Institute of Noetic Sciences; Antoine Lutz;Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Specificity of Seth's formulation
'Instability leading to wider reception range' has potential directional predictions, but instability and frequency range are not defined; increased EEG high-frequency power, increased broadband noise, and increased reception bandwidth are three distinct propositions.
Note
This search found no peer-reviewed EEG study treating A-5 as a validated experimental state; meditation also cannot be uniformly regarded as a trance state, and cross-state coherence differences cannot prove cross-era communication. MEG, body-surface electric fields, and ultraweak photon emission must be measured separately. [MEG research direction](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Physics/People/matthew.brookes)
Evidence (3, DOI-verified via Crossref)

Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim psychic-phenomena-2, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/psychic-phenomena-2