This section is from the book "Human Personality And Its Survival Of Bodily Death", by Frederic W. H. Myers. Also available from Amazon: Human Personality And Its Survival Of Bodily Death.
1. Supraliminal or empirical consciousness; aware only of the material world through sensory impressions.
2. Physical nutrition, including respiration.
(a) Physiological and pathological processes and products.
3. Physical expenditure; action on material and etherial environment.
(a) Mechanical work done at the expense of food assimilated. (b) Production of heat, odour, sound, chemical changes, as the result of protoplasmic metabolism. (c) Production of etherial disturbances; as emission of light and generation of electrical energy.
4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.
(a) Reproduction, as physiological division.
5. Mental nutrition; sensory receptivity.
(a) Ordinary sense-perception. (b) Memory.
6. Mental expenditure; response to stimuli.
(a) Intra-cerebral response; ideation. (b) Emotion; will; voluntary innervation.
7. Modifications of supraliminal personality.
(a) Birth; as physiological individuation.
(b) Sleep; with dreams, as oscillations of the conscious threshold.
(c) Metamorphoses; as of insects and amphibians; and polymorphism, as of hydrozoa; multiplex personality.
(d) Death; as physiological dissolution.
1. Subliminal consciousness; obscurely aware of the transcendental world, through telepathic and telaesthetic impressions.
2. Physical nutrition modified by subliminal control.
(a) Suggestion, self-suggestion, psycho-therapeutics. (b) Stigmatisation.
3. Physical expenditure modified by subliminal control.
(a) Mechanical work modified by psychical integration or disintegration; hysteria.
(b) Production of heat, and other specific effects upon matter, subliminally modified.
(c) Emission of light, and generation of electrical energy modified.
4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.
(a) Prenatal suggestion through intermediate organism of parent.
5. Mental nutrition (sensory and supersensory receptivity) subliminally controlled. (a) Hyperaesthesia; anaesthesia; analgesia. (b) Hypermnesia; manifested in dreams or automatisms. (c) Telepathy; veridical hallucinations; sensory automatism. (d) Telaesthesia or clairvoyance; perception of distant scenes; retrocognition; precognition.
6. Mental expenditure; response to stimuli modified by subliminal control, (a) Subliminal ideation; the inspirations of genius. (b) Motor automatism; concurrent consciousness; hyperboulia. (c) Extradition of will-power beyond the organism; telergy; self-projection.
7. Modifications of subliminal personality.
(a) Birth; as spiritual individuation.
(b) Sleep and trance; self-suggested or telepathically suggested; with clairvoyant visions, (c) Ecstasy. (d) Death; as irrevocable self-projection of the spirit.
1. Subliminal consciousness, discerning and influenced by disembodied spirits in a spiritual world, who co-operate in pro-ducing objective phenomena.
2. Physical nutrition modified by spirit-control.
(a) Spirit-suggestion; psycho-therapeutics.
(b) Stigmatisation.
(c) Novel and purposive metastasis of secretion.
3. Physical expenditure modified by spirit-control.
(a) Mechanical efficiency increased and fulcrum displaced.
(b) Control over individual material molecules; resulting in abrogation of ordinary thermal laws, and in aggregation and disaggregation of matter. (c) Control over etherial manifestations; with possible effects in the domains of light, electricity, gravitation, and cohesion.
4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.
(a) Pre-conceptual suggestion or self-suggestion. (b) Ectoplasy or Materialisation; temporary extradition or concentration of vital energy.
5. Mental nutrition modified by spirit-control.
(a) Ordinary sensory perception spiritually controlled.
(b) Memory controlled; retrocognition spiritually given.
(c) Sensory automatism spiritually controlled; phantasms of the dead, etc.
(d) Telaesthesia developed into perception of spiritual environment; precognition.
6. Response to stimuli spiritually controlled.
(a) Ideation inspired by spirits.
(b) Motor automatism spiritually controlled; possession.
(c) Extension of will-power into the spiritual world; prayer.
7. Modifications of personality from spiritual standpoint.
(a) Birth; as descent into generation.
(b) Sleep and trance induced, and visions inspired, by spirits. (c) Precursory emergence into completer personality; ecstasy with perception of spiritual world.
(d) Death; as birth into completer personality.
(e) Vital faculty fully exercised in spiritual world.
 
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