supraliminal
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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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
Somehow or other the physician's own persistent wish to get some such opportunity induced a collaboration of his subliminal with his supraliminal self, akin to the inspirations of genius.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
In the cases which I have just been discussing there has been a psychical excursion, with its possibilities of clairvoyance; but the excursive element has not brought home any assignable knowledge to the supraliminal personality.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
But besides the hallucinatory hearing or picture-seeing which we have classed as sensory automatisms, there is another method by which the subliminal may communicate with the supraliminal self.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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