extraphysical
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of extraphysical
Example Sentences
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You must understand that our modern Statisticalists are the intellectual heirs of those ancient materialistic thinkers who denied the possibility of any discarnate existence, or of any extraphysical mind, or even of extrasensory perception.
From Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper
Because a phenomenon has not been explained, and no one knows how to explain it, is no reason for supposing there is anything extraphysical about it.
From The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland
If some part of our ego is time-free and passes from moment to moment, it must be extraphysical, because the physical body exists at every moment through which the consciousness passes.
From Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper
And if it's extraphysical, there's no reason whatever for assuming that it passes out of existence when it reaches the moment of the death of the body.
From Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper
We exist perpetually at all moments within our life-span; our extraphysical ego component passes from the ego existing at one moment to the ego existing at the next.
From Police Operation by H. Beam Piper
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