extraphysical

[ ek-struh-fiz-i-kuhl ]

adjective

1. outside the physical; not subject to physical laws.

Word History and Origins

Origin of extraphysical¹

First recorded in 1815–25; extra- + physical

Example Sentences

Because a phenomenon has not been explained, and no one knows how to explain it, is no reason for supposing there is anything extraphysical about it.

From Project Gutenberg

We exist perpetually at all moments within our life-span; our extraphysical ego component passes from the ego existing at one moment to the ego existing at the next.

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If some part of our ego is time-free and passes from moment to moment, it must be extraphysical, because the physical body exists at every moment through which the consciousness passes.

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And if it's extraphysical, there's no reason whatever for assuming that it passes out of existence when it reaches the moment of the death of the body.

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You must understand that our modern Statisticalists are the intellectual heirs of those ancient materialistic thinkers who denied the possibility of any discarnate existence, or of any extraphysical mind, or even of extrasensory perception.

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