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4199 claims; 789 reviewed against the literature; 654 fundable. Claims are AI paraphrases of Seth\'s statements (not verbatim), each traceable to book and session. English fields are machine-translated; the text search runs on the Chinese original. Programmatic access: Data & API.
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| Claim | Concept / domain | Type | Test. | Status | Refs |
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| Self-hypnosis can induce trance states, achieve a state of dissociated consciousness, in which ESP abilities frequently manifest. esp-power §15 · Self-Hypnosis, Dissociative Experience, and Blinded Target Identification: A Pre-registere… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Hypnosis is a tool used to release the conscious self's focus on the camouflage universe, redirecting it toward the inner self. early-sessions-2 §45 · Internal and External Attention During Hypnosis: A Pre-registered Behavioral and Functiona… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Natural hypnosis is the default acceptance by the subconscious of conscious beliefs. personal-reality §659 · Self-Suggestion and Clinician-Guided Hypnosis for Chronic Pain: A Pre-registered Noninferi… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| A person's beliefs are like a hypnotic focus; daily inner self-talk continually reinforces these beliefs, and one is one's own hypnotist. personal-reality §659 · Repeated Inner Speech, Hypnotic Induction, and Belief Updating: A Pre-registered Factorial… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| In formal hypnosis, the individual makes an agreement with the hypnotist: to temporarily accept the hypnotist's conception of reality rather than one's own. personal-reality §659 · Instructional Framing, Expectancy, and Hypnotic Responding: A Pre-registered Randomized Ex… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The hypnotic state is a level of awareness in which the personality operates freely, temporarily detached from ordinary physical reality. early-sessions-5 §209 · Default Mode Network Connectivity and Altered Agency During Hypnosis: A Pre-registered fMR… | hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Prediction for hospitalized fellow patient Mrs. Y: on the night of April 15, 1964, around 2 a.m., a severe crisis will occur, brain tissue will deteriorate rapi… esp-power §10 · Prospective Accuracy of Time-Stamped Predictions of Acute Clinical Deterioration: A Blinde… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| In experiments, Rowe found that while sitting quietly in the dark, his hand sometimes seemed to disappear, and the same phenomenon occurred with a metal militar… early-sessions-1 §12 · Perceptual Fading of Body and Object Targets and Handwriting Legibility Under Low Luminanc… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Illness can be viewed as a way of focusing or as an organizer of experience; if one organizing mode disappears, illness may take its place; symptoms are conside… unknown-reality-1 §704; personal-sessions-3 §? · Goal Reengagement, Illness Identity, and Symptom Substitution in Persistent Physical Sympt… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| In the dream state, because ego defenses are lowered, inner reactions are easily triggered; destructive attitudes can be changed in dreams into constructive sce… dreams-projections §3; early-sessions-4 §198 · Dream Affect, Autonomic Physiology, and Clinical Outcomes During Targeted Memory Reactivat… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| Healing dreams most often appear when the ego feels despair and automatically opens a channel to deeper layers of the personality, possibly leading to near-mira… dreams-projections §3 · Hopelessness, Dream Content, and Abrupt Sustained Pain Improvement: A Pre-registered Prosp… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Through autosuggestion, healing dreams can be induced by practice. dreams-projections §3; early-sessions-4 §198 · Bedtime Suggestion and Dream Incubation for Chronic Primary Pain: A Pre-registered Randomi… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Medicine regards people as carriers of disease, and seeks the nature of fatal illnesses by studying dead tissue, deviating from the direction of directly engagi… personal-reality §624 · Diagnostic Framing, Patient Expectations, and Clinical Outcomes in Nonspecific Low Back Pa… | illness and healing Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Imagination is a transformative mechanism that "gives beliefs fluidity," helping convert beliefs into material experience; one must learn to use imagination to … personal-reality §619 · Imagery Rescripting and Belief Updating: A Pre-registered Randomized Trial of Behavioral a… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Imagination and reason complement each other: imagination deals with the implicit universe, reason with immediate evidence; every act of imagination includes re… dreams-evolution-2 §917 · Imagery–Reasoning Interactions in Deduction and Decision Accuracy: Pre-registered Behavior… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Changing one's imagination and expectations about a person continuously sends telepathic suggestions to that person, influencing their behavior. early-sessions-8 §340 · Remote Expectancy and Recipient Choice Under Sensory Isolation: A Multicenter Pre-register… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| Imagination is not bound by time; it can imagine the past and future, helping bring elements of the inner implicit universe into actual experience, and combinin… dreams-evolution-2 §916 · Temporal Simulation and Information Accuracy: A Pre-registered Comparison of Memory, Prosp… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Imagination allows entry into other realities or levels, for example experiencing a cat's sense of time through imagination. unknown-reality-1 §680 · Cross-Species Temporal Perspective Taking: Predicting Feline Interval Discrimination Throu… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| In the dream state, imagination and creative aspects are given greater play; problem-solving follows intuitive role-playing rather than reasoning processes. esp-power §14 · Role-Based Dream Incubation and Creative Problem Solving: A Pre-registered Sleep-Laborator… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The operation of imagination involves mental enzymes, which produce chemical effects at the physical level and can be observed through these chemical effects. early-sessions-1 §19 · Salivary Alpha-Amylase Activity During Vivid Mental Imagery: A Pre-registered Randomized C… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Physical tools can induce imagination to move along personal memories, but cannot force it to engage in conceptual thought. early-sessions-1 §19 · Differential Effects of Brain Stimulation on Autobiographical Recall and Novel Concept Gen… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Through practice (such as imagining oneself in another time and space before sleep) to train imagination, you will be better able to handle current events and b… nature-of-psyche §793 · Bedtime Scene Simulation and Transfer to Everyday Problem Solving: A Six-Week Pre-register… | imagination Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The concept of demons is a collective projection of certain fears; the projection acquires a certain self-awareness, but becomes real only to those who are conv… seth-speaks §17 · Belief Strength, Threat Expectancy, and False Entity Detection in Virtual Reality: A Pre-r… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Consciousness always creates form, while Darwinian natural selection excludes design or consciousness; the role of subconscious ideas in evolution is far undere… unknown-reality-2 §744 · Learned Environmental Preferences and Evolutionary Trajectories in Replicated Experimental… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The formation of life from non-living matter through prolonged random combination is mathematically impossible; consciousness plays a role in the transition fro… unknown-reality-2 §744 · Emergence of Heritable Replication in Automated Prebiotic Reaction Networks | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Science is becoming another dogma; its distortion of reality is as harmful as religion. unknown-reality-2 §744 · Authority Cues, Belief Updating, and Decision Costs Across Scientific and Religious Contex… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Atoms can move in multiple directions simultaneously, electrons can rotate in multiple directions and involve time reversal, indicating an underlying fundamenta… unknown-reality-1 §702 · Pre-registered Tests of Momentum Superposition and Spin Correlations Against Explicit Alte… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| Science should turn to the inner source, from biofeedback, astronomy, and other disciplines, back to the inner psyche, to explore consciousness, psyche movement… unknown-reality-1 §702 · Neurofeedback, Expectancy, and First-Person Reports: A Pre-registered Multisite Randomized… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| There exist electromagnetic energy (EE) units and units of consciousness (CUs); although they are not physical, they are conscious entities that constitute all … unknown-reality-2 §744 · Observer Expectancy and Entanglement Decay: A Pre-registered Multisite Test under Physical… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| There exists 'design' as a connection between living and non-living systems; science needs to study the connections from biology to physics to consciousness uni… unknown-reality-2 §744 · Bioelectric Control and Target-State Recovery in Living and Nonliving Pattern-Forming Syst… | mass beliefs Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Natural hypnosis is the unconscious's default to 'conscious beliefs.' personal-reality §659 · Explicit Beliefs and Conditioned Learning as Determinants of Automatic Responses: A Prereg… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth recommends taking a warm bath and eating a small amount of food before sleep, giving oneself dream suggestions for seven consecutive days, and recording dr… early-sessions-9 §497 · Presleep Warming, Food Intake, and Autosuggestion as Determinants of Dream Recall: A Prere… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth recommends imagining seeing the dream journal already filled the next morning and feeling the pleasure of success to promote dream recall. early-sessions-9 §497 · Prospective Success Imagery and Positive Affect in Dream Recall: A Preregistered Randomize… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth encourages Rob to practice 'first inner sensing' (e.g., using the mind's eye to see the other side of objects, imagining walking). dreams-projections §2 · Visual Imagery Training, Spatial Generalization, and Identification of Concealed Random Ta… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Your beliefs act like a hypnotic focus, constantly reinforced by the normal inner 'self-talk' in which you often immerse yourself, and you are your own hypnotis… personal-reality §659 · Repeated Inner Speech, Belief Conviction, and Autonomic Regulation: A Preregistered Ambula… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| In formal hypnosis, you reach an agreement with the hypnotist to temporarily accept their beliefs rather than your own, whereas in natural hypnosis you are your… personal-reality §659 · Self-Administered and Interpersonal Suggestion: A Preregistered Equivalence and Mediation … | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The hypnotist acts as a direct representative of 'authority'; beliefs are initially received from parents, and thus the hypnotist becomes a parental substitute … personal-reality §659 · Parental Similarity and Perceived Authority in Hypnotic Responding: A Preregistered Factor… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| Shamans and natural healers understand that the point of power is in the present, and use natural hypnosis to help others focus on present energy, using 'shock … personal-reality §659 · Present-Focused Attention and Unexpected Feedback in Belief Updating and Pain Modulation | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The present-moment understanding of the point of power must be thoroughly grasped before natural hypnosis can be applied for your benefit in all areas of life. personal-reality §660 · Conceptual Understanding and Present-Focused Practice: A Preregistered Dismantling Trial | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Medical advertisements in a similar manner instill fear-based health beliefs in individuals, and such suggestions are sufficient to cause illness. personal-reality §660 · Health Advertising, Perceived Susceptibility, and Nocebo Responses: A Preregistered Random… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| People with stomach ulcers worry that certain foods will cause illness; this belief establishes a conditioning process through self-hypnosis, and medication ser… personal-reality §660 · Food-Related Expectancies, Symptoms, and Endoscopic Healing in Gastric Ulcer Disease: A Ra… | natural hypnosis Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Physical reality is formed and maintained within the mental realm, energized by inner psychological experience. early-sessions-8 §342 · Prior Beliefs Modulate Default Mode–Sensory Network Coupling During Ambiguous Perception: … | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The personality exists in a diffuse manner within the physical system, and its fundamental constitution includes biological heredity and the legacy of cellular … early-sessions-4 §165 · Genetic, Neural, and Peripheral Cellular Contributions to Longitudinal Personality Variati… | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Units of consciousness can appear in multiple places simultaneously and do not pass through space, just as an electron moves from one orbit to another without t… unknown-reality-1 §682 · Joint Identification of Spatially Separated Random Targets Under Blinded Conditions | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Space travel should be achieved through the movement of the psyche and mind, having removed the camouflage of the physical body, rather than through physical mo… unknown-reality-1 §702 · Remote Target Identification During Induced Changes in Self-Location: A Pre-registered Con… | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The physical universe itself is fundamentally different from the basic images presented by the senses; the senses distort reality to a high degree. esp-power §7 · Perceptual Bias and Cross-Modal Calibration Under Manipulated Priors and Sensory Uncertain… | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The physical universe cannot be fully understood using physical instruments, because the measuring tools themselves are subject to the same distortions. esp-power §7 · Cross-Modal Instrument Calibration and Introspective Estimates of Blinded Physical States | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Consciousness is fundamental reality; science, by focusing only on matter and particles, has deviated from the correct path. unknown-reality-2 §744 · Perturbational Tests of Competing Models of Conscious Experience: A Pre-registered Adversa… | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The physical world is composed of plastic patterns whose final form is determined by probabilities guided by consciousness. unknown-reality-2 §744 · Intentional Modulation of Quantum Random Number Outputs: A Pre-registered Multicenter Stud… | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Science should turn to the inner self and develop 'psychological time' states to perceive reality rather than through distorted senses. esp-power §7 · EEG Signatures and Perceptual Accuracy Following Structured Introspective Training: A Pre-… | personal reality Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |