Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily DeathMyers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Religion
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Immortality; Parapsychology; Personality
_Cænesthesia._--That consensus or agreement of many organic sensations
which is a fundamental element in our conception of personal identity.
_Control._--This word is used of the intelligence which purports to
communicate messages which are written or uttered by the _automatist_,
_sensitive_ or _medium_.
_*Cosmopathic._--Open to the access of supernormal knowledge or emotion.
_Cryptomnesia._--Submerged or subliminal memory of events forgotten by
the supraliminal self.
_*Dextro-cerebral_ (opposed to _*Sinistro-cerebral_) of left-handed
persons as employing preferentially the _right_ hemisphere of the brain.
_Diathesis._--Habit, capacity, constitutional disposition or tendency.
_Dimorphism._--In crystals the property of assuming two incompatible
forms: in plants and animals, difference of form between members of the
same species. Used of a condition of alternating personalities, in which
memory, character, etc., present themselves at different times in
different forms in the same person.
_Discarnate._--Disembodied, opposed to _incarnate_.
_Disintegration of Personality._--Used of any condition where the sense
of personality is not unitary and continuous: especially when secondary
and transitory personalities intervene.
_Dynamogeny._--The increase of nervous energy by appropriate stimuli,
often opposed to _inhibition_.
_Ecmnesia._--Loss of memory of a period of time.
_*Entencephalic._--On the analogy of _entoptic_: of sensations, etc.,
which have their origin within the brain, not in the external world.
_Eugenics._--The science of improving the race.
_Falsidical._--Of hallucinations _delusive_, _i.e._, when there is
nothing objective to which they correspond. The correlative term to
_veridical_.
_Glossolaly._--"Speaking with tongues," _i.e._, automatic utterance of
words not belonging to any real language.
_Hallucination._--Any sensory perception which has no objective
counterpart within the field of vision, hearing, etc., is termed a
hallucination.
_Heteræsthesia._--A form of sensibility decidedly different from any of
those which can be referred to the action of the known senses.
_Hyperboulia._--Increased power over the organism,--resembling the power
which we call _will_ when it is exercised over the voluntary
muscles,--which is seen in the bodily changes effected by
self-suggestion.
_Hyperæsthesia._--Unusual acuteness of the senses.
_Hypermnesia._--"Over-activity of the memory; a condition in which past
acts, feelings, or ideas are brought vividly to the mind, which, in its
normal condition, has wholly lost the remembrance of them." (Tuke's
_Dict._)
_*Hyperpromethia._--Supernormal power of foresight.
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