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It is suggested to hold two gatherings per week (Monday and Wednesday evenings at 9 PM), using the ouija board as a formal ritual; small rituals help emphasize data in the mind.

建议每周举行两次聚会（周一、周三晚9点），用灵应盘作为正式仪式，小仪式有助于在头脑中强调数据。

Concept psychometry · Domain Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction · 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
Approximately 320 participants are randomly assigned in fixed groups to a 2×2 design: symbolic ritual / action matching without ritual meaning, and Monday-Wednesday at 21:00 / other times with matched frequency and duration; lasting 8 weeks. Measure common-sense extraction, delayed memory, and double-blind hidden target matching, with pre-specified primary endpoints; analysis includes group random effects, sleep, chronotype, and expectancy ratings. Additionally record ouija board trajectories and electromyography to test ideomotor mechanisms.
Suggested paper title
Ritual Framing, Session Timing, and Expectancy in Memory and Blinded Target Identification
What it would overturn
Improvements in ordinary memory or anxiety metrics would not overturn mainstream theory; only if hidden target accuracy increases with ritual after removing cues would this challenge the explanation that ritual effects occur through known cognitive and behavioral channels.
Candidate labs / funders
Michael Inzlicht，多伦多大学，研究认知控制、仪式与表现; Christine Anne Simmonds-Moore，西佐治亚大学
Specificity of Seth's formulation
The day and clock time are specific, but the original statement reads more like a personal schedule, without explicitly claiming that this time is superior; the idea that ritual enhances psychological salience heavily overlaps with ordinary psychology hypotheses.
Note
Do not upgrade a scheduling suggestion into a law of optimal timing not stated in the original text; ritual-related research can be seen in [Michael Inzlicht's publication list](https://michaelinzlicht.com/publications/articles-chapters).
Evidence (2, DOI-verified via Crossref)
  • Rituals decrease the neural response to performance failure — Nicholas M. Hobson; Devin Bonk; Michael Inzlicht (2017), PeerJ
    预注册实验发现仪式练习改变错误相关脑电反应，但没有发现任务表现改善；不能支持特定聚会时间或隐藏信息获取。[论文](https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3363)
  • Expression of nonconscious knowledge via ideomotor actions — Hélène L. Gauchou; Ronald A. Rensink; Sidney Fels (2012), Consciousness and Cognition
    灵应盘实验涉及已有常识的非意识提取，不能证明参与者获得了从未接触的信息。[论文](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.01.016)

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