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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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If an individual's intent does not involve illness yet they believe in contagion, that individual will automatically avoid probabilistic situations that could l…
unknown-reality-1 §697 · Illness Intentions, Contagion Beliefs, and Prospectively Measured Respiratory Infection Ri…
beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3contradicted2
Future events cannot be predicted precisely to time or date because free will is always operating.
early-class-3 §1971-01-05 · Temporal Forecast Accuracy for Physical Events and Voluntary Actions: A Pre-registered Pro…
beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3contradicted1
Every thought changes every cell in the body to some degree, and the body responds exactly as the individual 'thinks it should respond.'
unknown-reality-1 §697 · Cell-Type-Specific and Systemic Responses to Experimentally Manipulated Expectancy: A Pre-…
beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted2
A sudden current belief of illness retroacts to the past, inserting into past cellular experience the biological event onset that triggers the current illness, …
personal-reality §654 · Post-Event Health Expectancy, Memory Reconstruction, and Prospectively Archived Biomarkers…
beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3contradicted2
Children's cells perceive the physical environment (temperature, barometric pressure, weather conditions, food supply) through biological communication and rapi…
mass-events §804 · Cellular and Physiological Responses to Thermal and Nutritional Cues in Children: A Pre-re…
biological communication
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3supported2
Animals communicate danger stances through body language, movements, and ritualized postures; symbolic displays can avoid actual violence and resolve conflicts.
personal-reality §673 · Gaze Aversion and Conflict De-escalation: A Pre-registered Behavioral and fNIRS Hyperscann…
biological communication
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3supported2
If vitamins are used continuously, their effectiveness is at most two to three weeks, after which they should be stopped for two to three weeks to allow the bod…
dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Continuous Versus Intermittent Vitamin C Supplementation: A Pre-registered Trial of Nutrie…
biological communication
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3contradicted2
Human thoughts, emotions, and intentions form part of the inner communication environment, as relevant and important as the physical environment.
mass-events §804 · Expectancy and Physical Stressors Shape Autonomic and Immune Responses: A Pre-registered F…
biological communication
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3supported2
The body's internal actions and reaction speeds are at the microsecond level, involving a large number of cellular-level actions and responses.
dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Microsecond Kinetics and Cell-Type Dependence of Fast Synaptic Communication
biological communication
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3supported1
The immune system maintains biological integrity by distinguishing self from non-self, preventing the body from wasting energy.
dreams-evolution-1 §906 · Self-Tolerance, Damage Signals, and Metabolic Costs in Human Immune Activation
biological integrity
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3supported2
Predators do not attack prey when satiated, prey do not fear satiated predators, and danger boundaries are clear.
mass-events §805 · Predator Satiation and Prey Risk Assessment: A Pre-Registered Multispecies Test
biological integrity
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3contradicted2
Current beliefs can retrospectively reshape past neural and cellular events, inserting new psychological and bodily memories into the past.
personal-reality §654 · Safety Learning, DNA Methylation, and Temporal Specificity of Stress-Related Biological Ch…
biological integrity
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted2
Blocking is a near-automatic reaction accumulated over many years.
early-sessions-2 §67 · The Development and Context Dependence of Habitual Emotional Avoidance: A Three-Year Longi…
blocking
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3supported1
Any attempt to obstruct the flow of true aggression causes distortion, imbalance, and explosive pseudo-aggression, manifesting as war, neurosis, and other probl…
personal-reality §634 · Assertive Expression, Suppression, and Arousal Reduction After Provocation: A Preregistere…
blocking
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted1
Obstructive behaviors (such as ulcers) are physical barriers; ulcers are the physical embodiment of lack of communication, forcing all levels to recognize unity…
early-sessions-4 §164; early-sessions-4 §166 · Expressive Suppression, Communication Quality, and Incident Peptic Ulcer: A Prospective Co…
blocking
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted2
The emergence of conscience depends on a 'reflective moment,' a psychological period in which the self uses memory to examine the past and project into the futu…
personal-reality §635
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Science should recognize that evolution can occur through pathways other than natural selection and random mutation.
dreams-evolution-2 §910
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
methodological suggestion3not reviewed0
The conscious mind possesses inexhaustible creativity; natural guilt can serve as the basis for various variations.
personal-reality §636
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3not reviewed0
A guilt feeling can psychologically persist for hundreds of years, indicating that conscience has been carried too far.
early-sessions-3 §89
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
case evidence3not reviewed0
Natural guilt is a preventive measure without punitive attributes; violating natural actions triggers guilt to prevent recurrence.
personal-reality §635
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Natural guilt is a creative mechanism that, when followed, brings biological integrity and triggers new facets of activity in consciousness.
personal-reality §635
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Before birth, the individual's main characteristics are already determined by the inner personality, which transmits them to chromosomes through the psychic gen…
early-sessions-2 §51
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3not reviewed0
Conscience depends on the 'reflective moment'; artificial guilt arises together with conscience.
personal-reality §636
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3not reviewed0
If an individual devalues the self for past behavior, that individual is involved in artificial guilt rather than natural guilt.
personal-reality §636
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3not reviewed0
If an individual consciously feels guilty, that individual cannot simultaneously experience the state of grace of the self.
personal-reality §636
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
testable prediction3not reviewed0
The scientific framework is overly specialized and needs to be expanded into an interdisciplinary synthesis that incorporates consciousness, intention, and purp…
dreams-evolution-2 §910; magical-approach §1980-08-20
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
methodological suggestion3not reviewed0
Science should explore the dynamic exchange between genetic systems and environmental and cultural events, acknowledging that there exists genetic programming f…
dreams-evolution-2 §910
conscience
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
methodological suggestion3not reviewed0
The conscious mind continuously attempts to organize its beliefs, structuring them into patterns and sequences, and excluding ideas that contradict its overall …
personal-reality §628 · Belief Network Reorganization and Selective Information Sampling: A Pre-registered Longitu…
conscious mind
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3supported2
There are no closed systems; energy is always exchanged between systems. Science is wrong to treat the universe as a closed system via the second law of thermod…
unknown-reality-2 §744 · Energy-Exchange Bounds and Entropy Production in Thermally Shielded Systems: A Pre-registe…
conscious mind
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3contradicted1
Darwinian evolution excludes a designer or planner, and also excludes consciousness from the origin and development of life, yet consciousness always creates fo…
unknown-reality-2 §744 · Intentional Modulation of Morphogenesis Under Physical Isolation: A Pre-registered Multice…
conscious mind
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3contradicted1
The theory of an expanding universe is wrong; space itself is a distorted entity, and intergalactic travel cannot be achieved through physical movement but thro…
unknown-reality-1 §702 · Testing Non-expanding Cosmological Models with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Supernova …
conscious mind
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3contradicted2
Core beliefs are powerful ideas an individual holds about their own existence; subsidiary beliefs are branches of them and appear reasonable only in relation to…
personal-reality §617
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3not reviewed0
Individuals holding the core belief that "my life has no value" will emotionally regard life as meaningless, their personal actions as ineffective, and death as…
personal-reality §617
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
可观测预测3not reviewed0
Seth suggests using a pendulum as a method to allow individuals to examine conscious material that is not aligned with the accepted belief structure.
personal-reality §619
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
methodological suggestion3not reviewed0
The idea of "time" is a core belief of the basic-assumption type that forces you to focus in one direction.
personal-reality §618
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3not reviewed0
Once a core belief is recognized as erroneous, all other subsidiary beliefs will disappear along with it.
personal-reality §617
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
The intensity of a core belief focuses perception on a particular point, causing one to perceive only events related to it and to remain blind to irrelevant exp…
personal-reality §617; personal-reality §618
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
A core belief automatically attracts other similar beliefs to attach and form a cluster of ideas; all experience is based on this, and unrelated data is discard…
personal-reality §618
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Only when you treat a core belief as a "fact of life" rather than a "belief about life" do you become able to see it and fully identify with it.
personal-reality §618
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
The beliefs of the conscious mind regulate involuntary bodily mechanisms; contradictory beliefs can trigger physical imbalance.
personal-reality §628
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Emotions faithfully reflect conscious beliefs; by accepting the feeling without treating it as fact, one can then ask "why do I feel this way" to trace the unde…
personal-reality §643
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Beliefs structure much of dream activity, and new beliefs may be initially accepted in the dream state.
personal-reality §671
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3not reviewed0
Individuals holding the core belief that "human nature is inherently evil" will only attend to data confirming that belief, becoming increasingly suspicious of …
personal-reality §617
core beliefs
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
可观测预测3not reviewed0
Emotions are generated by beliefs, but the triggering of natural disasters operates directly at the emotional level; the overall emotional tone connects to the …
personal-reality §665 · Collective Affect and Local Storm Intensity: A Preregistered Prospective Test of Increment…
emotions
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted2
Emotions possess electromagnetic properties and participate in generating "ghost chemicals"; collective emotions form an emotional energy pool whose direction a…
personal-reality §665 · Affective State, Biomagnetic Field Strength, and Atmospheric Outcomes: A Preregistered Mul…
emotions
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted2
Health problems do not originate from the body; rather, destructive emotional patterns directly affect the molecular structure of cells and persist through habi…
dreams-projections §3 · Effects of Emotion Regulation Training on Immune Cell Molecular Phenotypes: A Randomized L…
emotions
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted2
Expectation is the main trigger that converts inner data into material construction; without expectation there is no material construction.
early-sessions-2 §76 · Does Human Expectancy Alter Crystal Nucleation Under Physical Isolation? A Preregistered M…
expectation
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
mechanism3contradicted1
The core of individuality lies in expectation because 'he does indeed get what he wants'; to change fate, desire alone is not enough—expectation is necessary.
early-sessions-2 §76 · Expectancy, Desire, and Opportunity in Goal Attainment: A Preregistered Factorial Trial
expectation
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3contradicted1
Seth does not recommend any form of fanaticism, and distinguishes commitment from fanatical commitment, emphasizing that commitment is necessary while fanaticis…
early-sessions-2 §83; early-sessions-3 §90
fanaticism
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
ontological claim3not reviewed0
Rob once conducted an oil consumption experiment; by expectancy suggestion, oil consumption was reduced, resulting in some decrease.
early-sessions-2 §80
fanaticism
Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation
experiment record3not reviewed0