SUBLIMINAL SELF

a term used Seince pub. of work by the late F. W. Myers. According to him, the conscious: portion of our personality is only the ‘smaller part of the whole. He would explain most so-called ‘psychic’ phenomena—telepathy, automatic writing, etc.—as manifestations of the swbconscious portion of the personality, that below the threshold (Lat. limen) of consciousne . Our ordinary conscious- “ne was only able very imperfectly to expre the greater whole; the ‘spurts’ of genius are uprushes of that which is ‘submerged, and so are other abnormalities. Myers’ theories are not yet Ra ‘any means entirely accepted. ee Unconscious: AuTo-SUGGESTION.