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)

In such cases the original piece of knowledge has at the time made a definite impress on the mind,—has come well within the span of apprehension of the supraliminal consciousness.

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)

The "conscious Self" of each of us, as we call it,—the empirical, the supraliminal Self, as I should prefer to say,—does not comprise the whole of the consciousness or of the faculty within us.

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

I there pointed out that the influence of the subliminal on the supraliminal might conveniently be divided under three main heads.

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