supraliminal
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The turbulent uprush and downdraught of hysteria; the helpful uprushes of genius, co-operating with supraliminal thought; the profound and recuperative changes which follow on hypnotic suggestion; these have been described under their separate headings.
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
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
The actual optical perception had thus been subliminally transformed; the words Verbascum Thapsus were the report to the inattentive supraliminal self by a subliminal self more interested in botany than in dinner.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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
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