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We're also shown the dark side of extrahuman powers and the repercussions -- some are kept from going "rabid" through "Therapy," an experience that seems similar to brainwashing.
REVIEW: Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge 2009
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The view may be spectacular but what if the view can cause the emergence of photogenic extrahuman abilities?
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The view may be spectacular but what if the view can cause the emergence of photogenic extrahuman abilities?
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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It's work, that's all it is, and there's no room for any extrahuman anxieties-they only weaken, ef-feminize the will: a man either indulges them, or fights to win, und so weiter.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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It is all very well to cry out against superstition; but we are only half-men in the West: we have lost the faculty of wonder and the companionship of extrahuman things.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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It was really the part of shallowness to ignore those extrahuman relations and account for the unforeseen by attributing to fate the more than inexplicable.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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The sole object of religious practices, in all cults except the highest, has been to secure extrahuman or superhuman aid and comfort in the ills of life.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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But in the human communities known to us, even the lowest, the relations with extrahuman beings appear to be in general of
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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Like a superterrestrial antiseptic, an extrahuman disinfectant, the liturgy purifies and cleanses the impious ugliness of the place.
En Route 1877
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But if that leaden sleep is one of the known phases of ordinary vampirism, if Gilles de Rais was merely a sexual pervert, we must admit that he distinguished himself from the most delirious sadists, the most exquisite virtuosi in pain and murder, by a detail which seems extrahuman, it is so horrible.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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