supraliminal

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In the first place, we note that a very brief and shallow submergence beneath the conscious level is enough to infuse fresh vigour into supraliminal trains of thought.

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

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

This last phrase—inevitably obscure—may be illustrated by reference to that hierarchical arrangement of supraliminal action and perception which Dr. Hughlings Jackson has so used as to clear up much previous confusion of thought.

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)

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)