Catherine Coldstream On Cloistered | 5x15

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Catherine Coldstream grew up in London and converted to Catholicism in her early twenties. She was a Carmelite nun for twelve years. Since leaving the monastery, she took an undergraduate degree as a mature student, at the University of Oxford, and taught theology, philosophy and ethics for ten years. She has never stopped thinking about her life as a nun and wrote about it as a way of understanding the experiences that shaped her. In her striking memoir Cloistered, she describes life as a contemplative nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery on the brink of the Millennium.
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[@annelanearts7762]

I would love to share with you my experiences - I also spent 10 years in a cloister in New Mexico - everything you say resonates with me.

[@speciallion1135]

Thank you for sharing your experience , it resonates. The ‘cell’ is quite thought provoking & fascinating to observe & contemplate, particularly in the vein of sacred geometry & in the surroundings you describe. Being free of worldly distractions is home & a sacred space, to feel the cymatics, frequencies & vibrations of a world we cannot see.
“Silence is the language of God, all else, is poor interpretation” (unknown)