supraliminal

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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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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 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)

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)

But it is equally easy to devise experiments which shall call these submerged sensations up again into supraliminal consciousness.

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