supraliminal

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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 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)

In him and in his ancestors were many faculties which were called out by the struggle for existence, and became supraliminal.

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

I there pointed out that the influence of the subliminal on the supraliminal might conveniently be divided under three main heads.

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)