subliminal self
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Wells's fables were a kind of automatic writing – messages from his subliminal self that his conscious mind dismissed.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011
Genius, however, operates within ordinary sensory limits; while in this physician's case the subliminal self exercised its farthest-reaching supernormal powers.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
The redeemed soul is one whose permanent disposition, called his "subconscious" or "subliminal self," is controlled by the magnetic influence of the spirit of truth and goodness.
From Subconscious Religion by Conwell, Russell H.
Our survey of that important, though inchoate, appeal to the subliminal self which passes under the name of hypnotism is now nearly as complete—in its brief sketchy form—as the present state of knowledge permits.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
X. is asleep, but his subliminal self is on the alert—like the second self of the somnambulist or subject in the hypnotic trance—it sees that unless checked there will be a destructive conflagration.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood