Catherine Coldstream
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329 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And I think I just started another kind of radical search, which took me to different kind of churches.
I spent time sitting in Greek Orthodox churches.
I spent time going to Catholic churches, charismatic churches, all sorts of churches.
I think I'd had a sense of transcendence very strongly when my father died.
And that led me on to want to
get closer to the source of transcendence.
And I thought, you know, religion maybe had the key.
I think it's the sort of combination of familiarity and completely understanding.
alien things at the same time.
So you go into the room and it's the dead body of your beloved parent.
It was the first time I'd seen a dead body.
And I think obviously there were familiar things about this body.
The irony was his hair was moving in the breeze.
It might have been a ventilator system or it might have been a window open, but his hair was moving as though he was still alive.
But everything else, of course, was utterly static.
And it's just the shock of seeing the complete vacancy of a body that...
you're used to seeing in life.
And I think I just felt immediately that he couldn't possibly have died.
He was somehow present in the room.
And there was some sort of huge sense of presence, I suppose, divine presence that, you know, just surged through the room and that hit me at that point.
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