supraliminal

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I must needs, for instance, use the word "spirit," when I speak of that unknown fraction of a man's personality—not the supraliminal fraction—which we discern as operating before or after death in the metetherial environment.

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)

Part of her personality is still alive to the danger, and modifies her movements, unknown to her supraliminal self.

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

At one end of the scale we find dreams,—a normal subliminal product, but of less practical value than any form of sane supraliminal thought.

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

That the notion does not originate in the hysteric's supraliminal self is proved by the fact that the patient is generally unaware of the existence of the bracelet until the physician discovers it.

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