supraliminal
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- supraliminally adverb
Etymology
Origin of supraliminal
Example Sentences
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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)
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)
At one end of the scale we find dreams,—a normal subliminal product, but of less practical value than any form of sane supraliminal thought.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Somehow or other the physician's own persistent wish to get some such opportunity induced a collaboration of his subliminal with his supraliminal self, akin to the inspirations of genius.
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)
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