![]() ![]() ![]() With an unforgettable ending, it is a mysterious journey into the most unsettling reaches of the human mind. The Premonitions Bureau is an enthralling account of madness and wonder, of science and the supernatural. Our lives are full of collisions and coincidence: the question is how we perceive these implausible events and therefore make meaning in our lives. We all know premonitions are impossible-and yet they come true all the time. In Sam Knight’s crystalline telling, this astonishing true story comes to encompass the secrets of the world. But in the face of professional humiliation, Barker only became more determined, ultimately realizing with terrible certainty that catastrophe had been prophesied in his own life. As Barker’s work plunged him deeper into the occult, his reputation suffered. Premonitions of death are also a natural part of grief, so if you have experienced a loss in recent times, this may also be your unconscious mind coming to terms with that. Middleton was one of hundreds of seemingly normal people, who would contribute their visions to Barker’s research in the years to come, some of them unnervingly accurate. It can constitute a ‘freak out’ about our mortality or the mortality of loved ones, which can be pretty hard to come to terms with. At Aberfan, Barker became convinced there had been supernatural warning signs of the disaster, and decided to establish a “premonitions bureau,” in conjunction with the Evening Standard newspaper, to collect dreams and forebodings from the public, in the hope of preventing future calamities. Among the doctors and emergency workers who arrived on the scene was John Barker, a psychiatrist from Shelton Hospital, in Shrewsbury. In a way, that is accurate, but most premonitions do not come true. If that possibility had come to pass, it would seem as if they were very psychic and they had a premonition. It’s because they were picking up one possibility. An hour later, a mountain of rubble containing waste from a coal mine collapsed above the village of Aberfan, swamping buildings and killing 144 people, many of them children. A lot of people have dreams that there’s terrible earthquakes coming, and then they don’t happen. On the morning of October 21, 1966, Kathleen Middleton, a music teacher in suburban London, awoke choking and gasping, convinced disaster was about to strike. AHP readers may be interested in the new book The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold by Sam Knight. ![]()
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