supraliminal

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And now we come to that class of cases where B invades A, and A perceives the invasion; but B retains no memory of it in supraliminal life.

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

After manifesting itself at an age when there is usually no continuous supraliminal mental effort worth speaking of, it appears to have been soon merged in the general blaze of their genius.

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

They represent, one may say, the first stage of a process which, although often inconspicuous, is not likely to be discontinuous,—the sustenance, namely, of the supraliminal life by impulse or guidance from below.

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)

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)