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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Channeling requires the receiver to possess high intelligence, familiarity of consciousness and subconscious with relevant concepts, fewer biases, and personali… early-sessions-1 §27 · Cognitive Ability, Prior Knowledge, and Metacognitive Bias as Predictors of Trance Perform… | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Seth suggested that Jane and Rob hold regular meetings twice a week (e.g., Monday and Wednesday at 9 PM) and that they could use a pendulum for experiments. early-sessions-1 §12; early-sessions-4 §153 · Practice Regularity, Ideomotor Responses, and Bedtime Expectancy: Pre-registered Randomize… | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In a dark-room experiment on January 4, 1964, Jane reported that her hand and the badge sometimes "seemed to disappear," and Rob obtained colored visions with h… early-sessions-1 §12 · Object Fading and Closed-Eye Visual Imagery Under Low Illumination: A Pre-registered Repli… | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Perception necessarily changes the state of the perceiver; there is no neutral information that can be purely received independently of the perceiver's consciou… early-sessions-9 §461 · Perceptual State Updating Under Identical Sensory Input: A Pre-registered EEG and Behavior… | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| An external personality (such as Seth) can guide the type of changes within the medium's neural structures, assisting clearer perception and reducing distortion… early-sessions-9 §461 · Source Attribution, Neural Dynamics, and Blinded Information Accuracy During Trance | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Channeling information is received through the medium's subconscious mechanisms, like the "Tower of Babel." early-sessions-2 §51 · Implicit Semantic Priming and Source Monitoring in Trance-Related Reports | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Prophetic or extrasensory information must be broken down by the mind into electrical impulses, then translated by the brain into psychological symbols; this pr… early-sessions-3 §127 · Sensitivity, Response Bias, and Electrophysiological Encoding in a Pre-registered Future-T… | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The symbols used in precognition can simultaneously represent multiple physical realities, so observable discrepancies arise between predictions and measured ev… early-sessions-3 §127 · Symbolic Ambiguity and Out-of-Sample Calibration in Prospective Event Reports | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| To be "correct," precognition must perceive the probability channel that is ultimately chosen; this channel depends on past and present choices, so precognition… early-sessions-5 §234 · Conditional Forecasting of Future Outcomes Under Randomized and Voluntary Branch Selection | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Information from other levels must be translated into symbolic form; otherwise it is meaningless to the perceiver. seth-speaks §575 · Verbal and Nonverbal Representations in Blinded Information-Reporting Tasks | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Channeling is an interactive process of 'give and take', rather than intrusion; initial distortions arise from the receiver's personality and emotional involvem… early-sessions-1 §27 · Affect, Autonomic Arousal, and Response Bias During Blinded Trance Reporting | channeling Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Mediumistic abilities can be developed through practice and preparation (e.g., practicing in trance states), and individuals can exhibit different types of exte… early-sessions-1 §16 · Training, Expectancy, and Individual Differences in Unusual Perceptual Experiences: A Pre-… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The state before sleep is a good time to receive visions; worry is harmful and strengthens negative attitudes; trance can be achieved with alcohol, a dim room, … early-sessions-1 §16 · Sleep-Onset Suggestion, Perceived Control, and Subsequent Dream Content: A Pre-registered … | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Telepathic derivatives (ectoplasm) can emerge separated from the medium's body; for the medium, there is no special sensation when they appear. early-sessions-1 §16 · Material Characterization and Somatic Awareness of Reported Bodily Emissions Under Control… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Fear sometimes sensitizes people, for example, worry about a loved one's safety can bring clairvoyance-like perception of disasters, but because one does not at… early-sessions-9 §461 · Threat Expectancy, Emotional Valence, and Blinded Remote-Target Judgments: A Pre-registere… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| As a medium, one may potentially contact deceased friends and relatives, but the ability must be explored through trial and error, as it varies by individual. early-sessions-1 §16 · Information Accuracy and Source Attribution in Blinded Bereavement Readings: A Pre-registe… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Seth criticizes mediumistic works that involve only traditional religious concepts and use them to limit interpretations of reality, holding that although such … early-sessions-8 §406 · Religious Framing, Expectancy, and Perceptual Reports: A Pre-registered Randomized Equival… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| All actions possess an electromagnetic reality that is usually not perceived by physical senses; different levels of the self possess this reality and can recei… early-sessions-5 §207 · Frequency-Specific Electromagnetic Sensitivity and Information Decoding in Humans: A Pre-r… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| For mediumistic communication to be consciously perceived, the communication must fall within the specific electromagnetic reality range of the receiver and be … early-sessions-5 §207 · Electromagnetic Signal Dependence of Semantic Reports During Trance: A Pre-registered Blin… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| In the trance state, the electromagnetic atmosphere that surrounds and belongs to the body changes, producing electromagnetic instability, allowing the individu… early-sessions-5 §207 · Bioelectric Dynamics and Sensory Bandwidth Across Trance, Meditation, and Sleep: A Pre-reg… | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Any perception immediately mixes, interweaves, and entangles with the entire physiologically effective structure of the personality; perception is an action tha… early-sessions-9 §461 · Bidirectional Coupling of Perceptual Reports and Neurovascular Responses During Trance | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In distant projection-type mediumship, the medium may become a perceptual mechanism at a remote site, while Seth controls the body and uses the vocal cords to s… early-sessions-7 §329 · Remote-Target Identification, Speech Production, and Acoustic Transients During Trance: A … | mediumship Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Personality is always in a state of 'becoming' and continuously changes; its movement is not spatial displacement but movement in the direction of value fulfill… early-sessions-3 §146 · Do Personality Changes Track Prior Values? A Three-Year Longitudinal and Randomized Interv… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| It must be acknowledged that personality possesses an independent reality beyond matter, space, and time, and that it derives its theory from its own subjective… esp-power §15 · Longitudinal Effects of Self-Observation Training on Default Mode Connectivity, EEG Dynami… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Personality is only partially contained in matter; its reality and awareness far exceed what is usually assumed. esp-power §15 · Covert Command Following and Longitudinal Recovery of Autobiographical Memory in Disorders… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Personality survives physical death and can be proven through experiments. early-sessions-5 §230 · Accuracy of Deceased-Person Information Retrieval in a Double-Blind Automated Forced-Choic… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Personality is simultaneous action, composed of actions within actions; part of it attempts to break away from action, forming the ego. dreams-projections §3 · Embodied Narrative Dynamics, Sense of Agency, and Health Symptoms: A Pre-registered Longit… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| When action is not allowed to follow the expression patterns or channels that personality has developed, energy blockage occurs; blockage must be understood as … dreams-projections §3 · Nocturnal Hand Muscle Biofeedback for Neck and Shoulder Pain: A Pre-registered Randomized … | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Personality has abilities independent of the physical form and can exist apart from the physical form. esp-power §13 · Hidden-Target Identification During Altered Self-Location: A Pre-registered Multisite Stud… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Personality is a part of the inner self, activated during a particular existence. early-sessions-3 §146 · Context-Dependent Activation of Personality States: An Intensive Longitudinal Model Compar… | personality Trans-Lifetime Personality and Consciousness Continuity | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |