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Claims database
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The conscious mind is responsible for organizing, arranging, and forming its own beliefs, and attempts to integrate these beliefs into a coherent system; belief… personal-reality §628; personal-reality §659; personal-reality §647 · Conscious Reflection and Belief Network Reorganization: A Preregistered Longitudinal Exper… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| When physicians inform patients they are dying, in some cases 'such a prediction can make death a reality,' while the opposite statement 'can regenerate the pat… personal-reality §654 · Prognostic Communication Framing, Emotional Well-Being, and Survival in Advanced Cancer: A… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| When contradictory beliefs coexist without reconciliation, they trigger a 'battle' within the conscious mind and cause the body's systems to receive conflicting… personal-reality §628 · Belief Conflict, Cognitive Reappraisal, and Autonomic Regulation: A Preregistered Randomiz… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| If a person simultaneously holds two opposing belief systems, the conscious mind may split into different personalities, each corresponding to its own belief sy… personal-reality §628 · Belief Conflict and the Emergence of Dissociative Identity Symptoms: A Prospective Multice… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | untested ★ | 1 |
| A core belief attracts a set of subsidiary beliefs and constitutes a dominant system that filters all experience; incongruent data are set aside as irrelevant, … personal-reality §659 · Core Beliefs and Selective Information Sampling: A Preregistered Test of Belief Network Ce… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Infants first form bonds with parents and thereby internalize society's general concepts; when the primary bond is insufficient to provide security and belongin… dreams-evolution-2 §931 · Attachment Security, Cultural Belief Internalization, and DNA Methylation Across Childhood… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contested ★ | 3 |
| Belief systems directly affect the body's physiological state: in the case of Augustus, a change in belief brought about 'an immediate revival of the body's che… personal-reality §633 · Health Expectancy Training and Postoperative Recovery: A Multicenter Randomized Trial of E… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | case evidence | 3 | untested ★ | 2 |
| If one holds the belief that 'a certain condition always brings displeasure,' then it will be so, and your displeasure then reinforces the condition. personal-reality §614 · Self-Reinforcing Negative Expectancies and Pain: A Preregistered Experimental Test of Perc… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 1 |
| Current beliefs organize memories that have drifted from the 'past,' rationalizing them; if one examines the past through a belief in 'finding flaws,' one will … personal-reality §657 · Current Appraisals Shape Intrusive Memory and Hippocampal Retrieval Patterns: A Preregiste… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | testable prediction | 3 | contested ★ | 2 |
| Western medicine is one of the least civilized hypnotic devices; physicians view with alarm the witch doctor's sacrifice of a chicken yet regard the removal of … personal-reality §659 · Risk Communication, Treatment Expectancies, and Surgical Decision-Making in Unilateral Bre… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | ontological claim | 3 | contradicted | 2 |
| Seth recommended regular use of a pendulum to obtain 'yes/no' ideomotor responses. early-sessions-4 §153 · Ideomotor Pendulum Responses and Metacognitive Accuracy: A Preregistered Repeated-Measures… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | methodological suggestion | 3 | supported | 1 |
| Through the conscious mind's continuous inner self-talk, beliefs form hypnotic-like suggestions to the unconscious, which then accepts them wholesale and brings… personal-reality §659 · Inner Speech and Autosuggestion: Testing Expectancy, Suggestibility, and Volitional Contro… | belief systems Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation | mechanism | 3 | contradicted | 2 |