My Library

I had discovered it one day while browsing in Weiser’s occult book store which had two copies of it. I had postponed reading it, even though it contained very many diagrams mostly in the form of box-and-flow layouts. This was SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION: THE NATURE OF A CONTROVERSY, by Dr. Norman Dixon [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971]. At the time, Dixon was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Reader in psychology at University College, London. In my opinion, however, the book’s title was a little misleading. It might more aptly have been entitled INFORMATION-TRANSFER PROCESSES WITHIN THE BIO-MIND SYSTEMS. The definition of SUBLIMINAL: "Inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception in conscious awareness; existing or functioning outside of conscious awareness." The idea here is that there is a THRESHOLD which demarks between what we can be consciously aware of and what we are not. This threshold is referred to as the LIMEN. In a diagram, the limen would be pictured as a line (threshold) with the consciousness awareness above it and the subconscious beneath it. CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LIMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUBLIMINAL ACTIVITY CONSISTING