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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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| The outer ego is responsible for manipulating the operation of the entire 'self' energy form in the material universe, while the inner self organizes and direct… early-sessions-2 §58 · Pre-registered Multimodal Tests of Bioelectric and Ultraweak Photon Emission Signatures Du… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The subconscious acts as a buffer zone, protecting the outer ego from the impact of true reality, because the outer ego is not yet able to withstand such direct… early-sessions-1 §35 · Sensory Gating, Subjective Overload, and Adaptive Function: A Pre-registered Multimodal St… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The outer ego does not disappear after the end of its specific existence, but retains and controls the traits and abilities it accumulated in this life, and can… early-sessions-2 §58 · Prospective Blinded Verification of Autobiographical Claims and Skill Correspondence Acros… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| The inner self creates the material reality that the outer ego faces; the outer ego is not a 'puppet,' but its awareness is less and more unstable than that of … early-sessions-9 §509 · Separating Expectancy Effects on Perception from Changes in Independently Recorded Physica… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The outer ego is more subject to material attributes than the inner self, but can directly experience inner reality by adjusting focus and aligning with the inn… early-sessions-2 §58 · Attentional Training, Expectancy, and Subjective Access to Internal Experience: A Randomiz… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| When the inner self and outer ego pursue opposite goals, difficulties arise; if a complete barrier appears between them, the entire self will be deprived of val… early-sessions-2 §58 · Goal Discordance and Well-Being: A Pre-registered Longitudinal and Randomized Intervention… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| When the inner and outer selves are balanced and communicate, the inner self can directly communicate with the outer ego, and the outer ego can convey material … early-sessions-2 §58 · Bidirectional Transfer Between Implicit Learning and Metacognitive Monitoring: A Pre-regis… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The fusion of inner and outer selves represents the formation of a new consciousness; after fusion, identity is no longer confined to the outer ego. early-sessions-7 §283 · Self-Boundary Attenuation and Dual-Task Performance: Pre-registered Tests of Sustained Att… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The communication channel between the inner self and outer ego has never been closed; the outer ego often acts on inner information without being aware of it. early-sessions-3 §120 · Masked Threat Cues, Autonomic Responses, and Avoidance Decisions: A Multisite Pre-register… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| The outer ego should have been an assistant but has been indulged into a tyrant; however, it is more flexible than usually assumed and is not inherently rigid. seth-speaks §512 · Modifiability of Cognitive Rigidity and Self-Related Beliefs: A Pre-registered Randomized … | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Jung's 'unconscious' is actually a product of inner consciousness, far richer in identity and purpose than the everyday self; Jung's 'shadow' is actually the ou… early-sessions-9 §509 · Default Mode and Executive Control Network Dynamics During Self-Focused Meditation and Act… | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The consciousness of the outer ego is merely a "shadow" cast by the intuitive knowledge of the inner self. early-sessions-9 §509 · Causal Tests of Feedforward and Recurrent Models of Conscious Decision Monitoring | outer ego Multilevel Subjectivity and Mind–Body Integration | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The outer senses cannot directly perceive the shapes of thoughts or dreams; they can only perceive physical camouflage, because concepts exist in an electrical … early-sessions-3 §128 · Shared and Distinct Neural Representations of Perception, Mental Imagery, and Sleep-Onset … | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Rob tried exercises such as using the mind's eye to go behind objects and 'walking across a bridge,' and Seth suggested he practice them regularly to develop in… dreams-projections §2 · Effects of Guided Imagery Training on Sensory Discrimination and Concealed-Target Identifi… | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | experiment record | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| While working in his studio, Rob had a spontaneous vision, saw the bedroom of his brother Dick's previous life, and sketched it—classified as an influx of inner… dreams-projections §2 · Prospective Blinded Validation of Spontaneous Scene Imagery Against Independently Archived… | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| During practice, Rob felt a strange sensation spreading locally; Seth called it 'sensation sound,' but it did not turn into sound or imagery. dreams-projections §2 · Expectancy and Cross-Modal Contributions to Unusual Somatic Experiences During Guided Atte… | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| After physical death, the outer senses continue in encoded form and, together with encoded memory, can replay any experienced sensory data. early-sessions-3 §128 · Multisensory Memory Reinstatement During Targeted Reactivation in Human Sleep | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| The outer senses primarily process camouflage patterns, in contrast to the inner senses that process inner reality; the outer senses focus only on the relations… dreams-projections §2 · Hierarchical Prediction Errors Across Exteroceptive and Interoceptive Processing: A Pre-re… | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| The subconscious is a bridge connecting mind and brain, inner senses and outer senses. dreams-projections §2 · Nonconscious Conditioned Cues Modulate Pain Perception: A Pre-registered Behavioral and fM… | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The reliability of the outer senses varies with planes and conditions; they are reliable only on specific planes. dreams-projections §2 · Context-Dependent Sensory Reliability and Reality Monitoring Across Perceptual Conditions | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| It is a mistake for science to rely only on the outer senses and their extensions; one should use the inner senses (mind, not brain) to explore the essence of l… dreams-projections §2 · Incremental Predictive Value of Structured First-Person Reports in Perceptual Neuroscience | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Scientists should look for what they do not see, explore seemingly empty places, and observe between events; only the inner senses can provide evidence of the f… dreams-projections §2 · Pre-registered Evaluation of Intuitive Judgments of Concealed Biological Sample Viability | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| The outer senses are part of the camouflage pattern and are deceptive; they are useless once removed from their specific plane. early-sessions-1 §37 · Residual Sensory Information Under Perceptual Conflict and Context Shifts | outer senses Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Human perception has no impenetrable veil; the only obstruction is the veil of ignorance lowered by the physical ego. esp-power §15 · Perceptual Training and Information Access Under Sensory Occlusion: A Pre-registered Rando… | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Psychological time is a natural connection to the inner world, can be practiced while awake, and regular practice benefits body and mind and reduces sleep needs… early-sessions-4 §153; dreams-projections §2 · Guided Imagery, Somatic Sensations, and Sleep Homeostasis: A Pre-registered Randomized Stu… | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| Any perception is first a psychological perception, then translated into a way meaningful to the physical organism. early-sessions-9 §467 · Temporal and Causal Relationships Between Sensory Transduction, Cortical Processing, and P… | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| In some reality systems, color is used as the primary mode of communication; atoms and molecules can be heard, and light can become sound, with the two always l… personal-sessions-2 §602 · Reliability and Neural Correlates of Color-Evoked Auditory Experiences Under Controlled Ac… | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Between the perceiver and the perceived event there exists a field with both electromagnetic structure and a chemical basis, causing the two to mutually change … early-sessions-9 §470 · Neural Responses and Autonomic Effects of Guided Imagery Under Calibrated Electromagnetic … | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| Events are breakthrough points where highly charged psychological impulses are transformed into physically perceivable things. early-sessions-9 §470 · Mental Intention and Isolated Physical Event Rates: A Pre-registered Multicentre Test | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| The complete process of perception includes two halves: outward projection to form events and the subsequent physical perception of those events; considering on… early-sessions-9 §469 · Separating Action-Mediated Feedback from Intention-Associated Changes in External Events | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Physical perception can perceive only the stimuli in its own probability system; other possible stimuli are blocked, making it 'biased perception.' unknown-reality-1 §694 · Prior Probability, Sensory Sensitivity, and Decision Bias in Near-Threshold Perception | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | ontological claim | 3 | untested ★ | 0 |
| Science's probing of the universe with physical tools can only capture disguised patterns; the true instruments should be inner senses and the 'mind.' dreams-projections §2 · Comparing Introspective Judgments and Instrumental Measurements in Blinded Target Identifi… | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| Writing down at least five predictions at a fixed time each day and checking them against daily events can train and observe the functioning of perception. esp-power §9 · Daily Forecasting Practice, Delayed Feedback, and Emotional State: A Pre-registered Random… | perception Extended Perception and Consciousness Transduction | methodological suggestion | 3 | untested ★ | 3 |
| 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 |