supraliminal

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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)

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 mania or epilepsy we lose control even of those highest-level supraliminal centres on which our rational earth-life depends.

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

It is true, however, that the range of our subliminal mentation is more extended than the range of our supraliminal.

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)