supraliminal

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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)

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)

When the subliminal mentation forces itself up through the supraliminal, without amalgamation, as in crystal-vision, automatic writing, etc., we have sensory or motor automatism.

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

The uprushes from the subliminal self will now be the important feature; the down-draught from the supraliminal, if it still exists, will be trivial in comparison.

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)