psychical

They employ the term psychical to indicate the relation of the human soul to sense, appetite, propensity, etc., and psychological, as indicating the ultimates of spiritual being.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

It is rather in what we call psychical vision that the poet is wont to excel, that is, in his ability to perceive the meaning of visual phenomena.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Some of these changes are beyond restitution; some can be brought back to a well-working structure by strictly physical agencies like drugs or electricity; others can be repaired by physiological stimuli which reach directly the higher brain cells through the sense organs and which we call psychical under one aspect, but which certainly remain physiological influences from another aspect.

Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

One can say that this (over -) emphasis stems from her identity as a writer, where literature would play a more decisive role than usual in psychical and material realities, but it should not be reduced to this fact.

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

The precise formulation is instructive for the ways that it connects the issue of un/mourning to the place of literature in psychical reality.

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

Later Miss Lord became deeply interested in psychical researches, and I could get no more work out of her.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

In this manner we use the word psychical as describing the relationship of the soul to animal experiences and being, and psychological as referring to the spiritual potencies of the soul.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

Footnote 4: In the use of the terms psychical and psychological, we have observed the distinction which metaphysicians have recently made.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

And when I ask my students or any group, ` Have you ever had a psychical experience, 'no matter how educated, no matter how intellectual and -- the overwhelming answer is, ` Yes, I've had an experience that I would call a psychical experience.'

Genuine Reality: A Life of William James 1998

Long before the word “parapsychology” came into use, something called psychical research investigated communication between living human beings and departed spirits—usually, but not always, their friends or loved ones.

The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982