supraliminal

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

The uprushes from the subliminal self will now be the important feature; the down-draught from the supraliminal, if it still exists, will be trivial in comparison.

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

Cryptomnesia.—Submerged or subliminal memory of events forgotten by the supraliminal self.

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)

This shows a subliminal adjusting power operating during trance more intelligently than the supraliminal intelligence had been able to operate during waking life.

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