supraliminal
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The "messages" of a number of automatists, taken at random, will be sure to resemble each other much more closely than do the supraliminal writings of the same persons.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
But through automatism and in trance and allied states we draw into supraliminal life some rivulet from the undercurrent stream.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
They represent, one may say, the first stage of a process which, although often inconspicuous, is not likely to be discontinuous,—the sustenance, namely, of the supraliminal life by impulse or guidance from below.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
This last phrase—inevitably obscure—may be illustrated by reference to that hierarchical arrangement of supraliminal action and perception which Dr. Hughlings Jackson has so used as to clear up much previous confusion of thought.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
All this, in my view, is the expression of subliminal control over the organism—more potent and profound than supraliminal, and exercised neither blindly nor wisely, but with intelligent caprice.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
