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the.signal 04192023 >> Premonitions Bureau with Sam Knight

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Episode is brought to you by Hello Fresh. Support the show - Go to HelloFresh.com/euph50 and use code euph50 for 50% off, plus your first box ships free!” [ the.signal ] a new conversation series presented by Euphomet and hosted by Jim Perry. This time, guest Sam Knight on his book The Premonitions Bureau: A true story of death untold Sam Knight is a staff writer at The New Yorker, based in London. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Harper's, and Grantland. Some of his more popular work has covered subjects such as the plans for the death of the Queen, sandwiches and late capitalism, and art fraud; plus profiles of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Jeremy Corbyn, and Theresa May. **** SHARE YOUR STORY! Reach Jim at [email protected] **** Like the music played on this episode? Check out the NITE DRIFT / EUPHOMET mixtape on Spotify. **** You can join the Euphomet Patreon and gain access to an AD FREE feed, an archive of the Original Series and be a part of LIVE interactive shows JOIN HERE **** JIM PERRY | Host, Executive Producer, Founder | @ItsJimPerry on Twitter JON MCEDWARD | Original Score | jonmcedward.com NATE HILL | Cover Art | https://www.natehillphotography.com.au/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the signal presented by you for me.

0:26.6

Last time on the signal, we chatted with Tim Rothschild, a shamanic healer, a mystic.

0:34.0

I think we asked more new questions than figured anything out, but I think that's all right.

0:40.4

And on this edition, I'll be asking more new questions this time to writer Sam Knight.

0:45.4

He wrote this book called The Priminitions Bureau.

0:48.0

And in it, he basically takes a look at the work of psychiatrist John Barker, who created

0:53.7

a network of sort of psychic visionaries in the 1960s and Britain after an incredible tragedy.

1:03.4

There were a lot of people looking to find any way possible for this kind of tragedy

1:09.6

not to happen ever again.

1:12.5

Could they do more?

1:14.0

Well, this idea of could they do more, it galvanized this psychiatrist who said yes, maybe

1:22.7

there is a way we can do more.

1:24.5

And maybe we can tap into psychic abilities, premonition to develop this.

1:31.1

So there was this really whole great mid-century British psychic thriller happening that not

1:37.3

a lot of people know about.

1:38.6

And so this book, The Priminitions Bureau, really describes that a fun conversation.

1:43.9

I think you are going to really enjoy it, especially if you have any familiarity with things

1:50.0

like project stargate or JB Rhine or the Monroe Institute or any of the other domestic

1:58.2

stateside studies, widespread experimentation on psychic phenomena and psychic abilities.

2:08.0

Okay, so for the last five days, I've been eating nothing but soft food.

2:13.7

I've been on nearly a liquid diet.

2:16.8

I can't eat any more applesauce or pudding.

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