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  • So ... come to "Brackett's SF Parlor" for some fictional spa work: rejuvenate your sense of outre, tickle your "hot" points of grotesque and sojourn in a land of perfect male heroes and super-sensuous females ... for a while.

    Rare Pulp Science Fiction, Issue 3 2008

  • “Reason,” on the other hand, was the source of transcendental ideas, “the organ of the super-sensuous” as Coleridge called it, able to discern “invisible realities or spiritual objects” (The Friend, 1809).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FRANKLIN L. BAUMER 1968

  • Subsequent German philosophers, as Schopenhauer complained, "tried, with shameless audacity, to smuggle in under this name an entirely spurious faculty of immediate, metaphysical so-called super-sensuous knowledge".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Consequently he has his true home in a super-sensuous world -- an infinite subjectivity, gained only by a rupture with mere natural existence and volition.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • So, too, does consciousness gain clearness in the super-sensuous world, and respecting it.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • Neither abstraction nor experience can bring us back to the source whence issue our ideas of necessity and of universality; this source is concealed in its origin in time from the observer, and its super-sensuous origin from the researches of the metaphysician.

    >Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XIX. 1909

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    Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • The phenomena of super-sensuous reception due to spirit influence are elicited in much the same way as a mesmerist arouses the clairvoyant powers of his subject.

    Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • But behind all this is the religion of the few, -- of those to whom sensuous forms cannot suffice to represent super-sensuous cravings; whose god is something more than an anthropomorphic creation; to whom worship means not the cramping of the body, but the expansion of the soul.

    The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885

  • Scripture, although not dependent on anything else and concerned with super-sensuous objects, must all the same come to terms with ratiocination (tarka); for all the different means of knowledge can in many cases help us to arrive at a decisive conclusion, only if they are supported by ratiocination.

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

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