supraliminal

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After manifesting itself at an age when there is usually no continuous supraliminal mental effort worth speaking of, it appears to have been soon merged in the general blaze of their genius.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

I hold that it is not initiated, but only revealed; that the "sport" has not called a new faculty into being, but has merely raised an existing faculty above the threshold of supraliminal consciousness.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

In him and in his ancestors were many faculties which were called out by the struggle for existence, and became supraliminal.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

To these faculties, as a rule, his supraliminal self could get no access.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

In the first place, we note that a very brief and shallow submergence beneath the conscious level is enough to infuse fresh vigour into supraliminal trains of thought.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)