supraliminal

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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)

When the subliminal mentation co-operates with and supplements the supraliminal, without changing the apparent phase of personality, we have genius.

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

These may still be unified in the subliminal, but they need to be unified in the supraliminal also.

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

There, too, the powers of which the supraliminal self has lost control continue to act in obedience to subliminal promptings.

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

That may be a gift which stands as much alone—in independence of other gifts or faculties—in the subliminal region as, say, a perfect musical ear in the supraliminal.

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