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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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| A-1 is a level of consciousness immediately adjacent to normal waking consciousness, only one step away from it. Everyone has unconsciously slipped into it at s… seth-speaks §574; seth-speaks §19 · Electrophysiological and Network Signatures of Induced Absorption Across Wakefulness, Hypn… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Science's understanding of genetics is mechanical, deterministic, and reductionist; consciousness, intention, and purpose should be incorporated into this under… dreams-evolution-2 §910 · Intentional Training and Immune Gene Expression: A Pre-registered Trial with Behavioral an… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| In the A-1 state, thought and emotion patterns can be examined to discover the source of physical illness, and physical conditions can be corrected by adjusting… seth-speaks §19 · Diagnostic Validity and Clinical Effects of Guided Internal Imagery in Somatic Symptoms: A… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In the A-1-a state, alternative decisions can be actually tested and their effects on the body, psyche, and environment observed, rather than merely imagined. seth-speaks §19 · Prediction of Unobserved Decision Outcomes During Induced Absorption: A Pre-registered Bli… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| In the A-1 state, consciousness can enter another person's body and heal it, and can also perceive the condition of one's own body in the same way. seth-speaks §574; seth-speaks §19 · Blinded Tests of Remote Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Outcomes During Induced Absorptio… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| In A-1, the user is temporarily free from bodily stress and can use this freedom to reduce bodily stress; seemingly unsolvable problems often become solvable, s… seth-speaks §574; seth-speaks §19 · Does Induced Absorption Amplify Autosuggestion? A Pre-registered Crossover Study of Pain a… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The A-1 state is easy to enter; when listening to preferred music or engaging in quiet activities, it is accompanied by individual-specific bodily cues (such as… seth-speaks §574; seth-speaks §19 · Personalized Behavioral Cues for Inducing Absorption: A Pre-registered Study of Music, Gaz… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| A-1 can serve as the first step in a series leading to deeper consciousness states or adjacent layers; the adjacent layer A-1-a is for rehearsing alternative de… seth-speaks §19 · Discrete Stages or Continuous Dimensions? A Pre-registered Multimodal Study of Guided Abso… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| A-2 is a slightly deeper state directly below A-1, used to explore the past including reincarnation; A-3 concerns planetary history and so on; A-4 is below mate… seth-speaks §19 · Source-Monitored Historical Information Retrieval During Guided Absorption: A Pre-register… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| In A-1, through practice one can intuitively sense the internal physical environment, can ask to convert thought content into symbolic images (e.g., weeds repre… seth-speaks §19 · Symbolic Imagery Replacement During Induced Absorption: Effects on Interoceptive Accuracy,… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Science equates rational thinking with the entire reference framework; other thinking perspectives are regarded as irrational; thought is over-specialized and i… magical-approach · Disciplinary Boundaries and Discovery-Method Bias in Scientific Evaluation: A Cross-Nation… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Science should abandon rationality as the only legitimate way of thinking, acknowledge multiple thinking styles, and seek a synthetic field that integrates info… magical-approach · Combining Analytical Reasoning, Intuitive Generation, and Cross-Disciplinary Integration i… | A-1 state Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Affirmation means accepting your own personal individuality within the physical body, representing your appreciation of your own extraordinary completeness; aff… personal-reality §672 · Embodied Self-Acceptance and Psychological Adjustment: A Pre-registered Randomized Control… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| If you affirm the 'legitimacy' of your physical existence, you help the cells and organs in your body; if you do not trust the nature of the flesh, cells and or… personal-reality §672 · Embodied Self-Acceptance, Cortisol Reactivity, and Natural Killer Cell Function: An Expect… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Affirming a certain aspect of yourself allows the brain to align with broader methods of perception that are natural features of the mind. personal-reality §675 · Self-Affirmation and Near-Threshold Visual Sensitivity: A Pre-registered Psychophysical an… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| You will not use your broader mind until you affirm its reality within yourself; some innate biological structures can be activated to receive such information,… personal-reality §675 · Belief Induction and Information Detection Under Sensory Isolation: A Multi-Site Pre-regis… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Affirmation does not require oneself to be 'perfect'—perfection implies a state after which no further growth exists, and such a state does not exist. personal-reality §674 · Acceptance of Imperfection, Flexible Standards, and Sustained Learning: A Randomized Contr… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The core of affirmation is accepting your present reality as a 'spirit within the flesh,' saying 'yes' to your entire being; within the framework of your comple… personal-reality §674 · Self-Acceptance and Assertive Boundary Setting: A Pre-registered Factorial Randomized Tria… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Affirming the fundamental grace of your own existence will automatically weaken contrary beliefs. personal-reality §677 · Self-Affirmation, Implicit–Explicit Self-Evaluation, and Belief Updating: A Pre-registered… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Affirmation requires inverting 'love your neighbor as yourself' to 'love yourself as your neighbor,' because true humility is based on a deep treasuring of one'… personal-reality §674 · Self-Directed Compassion and Intellectual Humility: A Pre-registered Mechanism Trial | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| When you affirm your own luminous legitimacy in the universe, you naturally cooperate with others as part of your own nature. personal-reality §677 · Self-Affirmation and Costly Cooperation Across Social Contexts: A Multi-Site Pre-registere… | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Affirming the legitimacy of your own existence benefits others—because your mental state is part of the Earth's psychic atmosphere. mass-events §870 · Self-Affirmation and Dyadic Autonomic Coupling Under Interactive and Isolated Conditions | affirmation Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| All constructions occur simultaneously in reality; Seth uses the term 'afterimage' to accommodate the linear thinking of humans, as a term for simplified explan… early-sessions-2 §71 · Constraints on Preferred-Frame Temporal Synchronization from Optical Clock Comparisons | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| That 'afterimage' universe is approximately contemporary with your universe, and its 'personalities' are not the same as the apparently twin bodies in your univ… early-sessions-2 §63 · Operational Identifiability of Temporal and Observer-State Correspondence in Coupled Cosmo… | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| The afterimage can 'ripple outward' from any major construction, theoretically without end, and with varying intensities. early-sessions-2 §71 · A Preregistered Search for Residual Propagating Signals Following Controlled Stimulus Even… | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Afterimages are classified as “a subdivision of primary constructions,” termed “distorted mirror-image constructions.” early-sessions-2 §71 · Testing Geometric and Chromatic Transformations in Visual Afterimage Representations | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Another universe formed after energy passes through your physical field can be likened to an afterimage; it exists simultaneously with your universe and has a t… early-sessions-2 §63 · Joint Cosmological Constraints on a Coupled Hidden Sector with a Shared Expansion Timescal… | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Your senses are too slow to perceive the intervals between pulses of matter, but your instruments may detect these intervals at some point in the future. early-sessions-2 §63 · Attosecond Constraints on Universal Periodic Modulation of Electronic Dynamics | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Antimatter universes, including afterimage-like universes, may be discovered by your scientists “within a short time,” but this discovery will not be accepted. early-sessions-2 §63 · Joint Constraints on Antihydrogen Free Fall and Hyperfine Symmetry in a Hidden-Sector Coup… | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Physical particles continually disappear and are replaced; no particular physical particle persists for any length of time. early-sessions-2 §60 · Interferometric Constraints on Stochastic State Renewal and Excess Phase Noise | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Patterns of form filled with matter resemble afterimages, continually appearing and gradually weakening as the energy behind them dissipates through the physica… early-sessions-2 §60 · Multiscale Decay of Visual Afterimages: A Preregistered Comparison of Adaptation Models | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| When you cease actively constructing an object, its pattern begins to fade but remains inactive, with weak vibrations that can still be perceived. early-sessions-2 §64 · Dissociating Perceptual Persistence from External Residual Signals after Stimulus Withdraw… | afterimage Mind, Bioelectricity, and Material Emergence | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Altered states of consciousness change the direction in which consciousness is focused, without changing consciousness itself, instead directing it toward diffe… early-sessions-4 §175 · Attentional Reorientation and Changes in Conscious Processing Across Induced Altered State… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Should turn to 'physics of the mind,' seeking evidence in the gaps between events; creativity can help touch inner vitality and transform it into new camouflage… dreams-projections §2 · Creative Insight During Quiet Rest and Sleep-Onset Transitions: A Pre-registered Multimeth… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Suggests developing 'psychological time' practice, viewing psychological time as a natural channel connecting to the inner world; practitioners can enter the ps… dreams-projections §2 · Can Five Minutes of Guided Temporal Imagery Match One Hour of Rest? A Pre-registered Nonin… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Recommends seriously beginning out-of-body travel as a hobby, imagining oneself stepping into or moving through environments in paintings, and fixing two nights… early-sessions-9 §497 · Twice-Weekly Scene-Immersion Imagery and Changes in Self-Location: A Pre-registered Random… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Drugs can serve as protection for consciousness projecting into other systems, preventing consciousness from being trapped or returning too quickly causing shoc… early-sessions-9 §487 · Temporal Processing, Cortical Oscillations, and Recovery Dynamics During Psilocybin Exposu… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Normal waking consciousness has periodic 'blank spots,' with frequency depending on activity from 15 to 50 times per hour, during which one can perceive other r… seth-speaks §19 · The Frequency and Temporal Structure of Mind Blanking Across Cognitive Loads: A Pre-regist… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In out-of-body experiences, consciousness alters space-time relationships; out-of-body time is 'free time,' and one does not age in this state, with effects dif… unknown-reality-2 §709 · Cardiorespiratory Dynamics and Temporal Judgments During Experimentally Induced Changes in… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| If the ideals of objective science do not change, technology-device-induced altered consciousness will almost certainly be used for manipulation rather than lib… unknown-reality-1 §702 · Autonomy and Manipulative Deployment of Consciousness-Modifying Technologies: A Pre-regist… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Ancient civilizations used trained individuals combined with dream-art scientists and mind physicists to undertake journeys through time and space, returning wi… unknown-reality-1 §702 · Provenance and Information Content of Historical Cartographic and Microscopic-Scale Repres… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| The scientific error lies in over-reliance on external senses and material instruments; internal senses must be used instead; the mind is the most important ins… dreams-projections §2 · Visual Acuity and Metacognitive Calibration Across Hypnosis, Mindfulness, and Reduced Sens… | altered states of consciousness Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Consciousness itself does not change; what changes is only the direction or level toward which consciousness points, not the essence of consciousness itself. early-sessions-4 §175 · Conscious Access and Metacognitive Capacity Across Internal and External Attentional State… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The inner self is an inward focus, the outer self an outward focus; the two form two sides of an action sphere. early-sessions-4 §153 · Internal and External Attention in Self-Related Cognition: Testing Continuous and Multidim… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Events reflect from any conscious layer to all other layers; each layer realizes the event according to its characteristics. seth-speaks §19 · Cross-System Propagation of Event Information Under Perceptual Masking and Attentional Loa… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In alternating focus, you can discard the fundamental assumptions that usually guide, control, and limit perception. seth-speaks §19 · Effects of Attentional Refocusing on Perceptual Prior Weighting: A Pre-registered Expectan… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Consciousness merely pretends to obey the idea of time; it can detach from time and perceive events from different centuries instantaneously. seth-speaks §19 · Blinded Identification of Concealed Historical Information and Prospectively Randomized Ta… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Any conscious layer can be used as normally functioning consciousness; reality is viewed from that particular standpoint. seth-speaks §19 · Functional Capacity Across Experimentally Defined Conscious States: A Pre-registered Nonin… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The fluctuation frequency of normal waking consciousness is 15 to 50 times per hour, depending on individual activity. seth-speaks §19 · Rates and Durations of Mind-Blanking Episodes Across Rest and Task Conditions: A Pre-regis… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| In A-1 state, consciousness can enter another person's body and heal it, and can also perceive the state of its own physical body image. seth-speaks §19; seth-speaks §574 · Attentional Refocusing, Bodily Information Accuracy, and Wound Repair: A Pre-registered Bl… | alternate focus Consciousness States and Attentional Dynamics | testable prediction | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |