Monastery series

Watching a video series from 2005 called Monastery on YouTube that was originally shown on the BBC.  Wonderful stuff with a monastery in England taking in 5 ordinary men for a six week period.  They get initiated into monastic life and while I'm not even half-way through with it, the series is very soothing.  Will be interesting to see how the men fare after their time is up.  One note:  I will admit to having a bit of difficulty with some of their accents.  It might be my headphones, but the English and in one case, Irish, accent is a tiny bit hard to understand for these American ears.  That's not their problem, though, but mine.

I ordered the companion book that one of the abbots, Christopher Jamison, wrote about the experience, called Finding Sanctuary.  I had it on my wish list on Amazon and when I got my Swagbuck's $5.00 gift card tonight (earned using their search engine), bought the book.  I had one penny to spare afterward. :) Can't say anything about the other sites/books the Finding Sanctuary page recommends, since I only know what I've seen on the video series. Sometimes when folks see the words 'mystic', 'contemplative', and 'meditate' they become a bit squirmy. I try to see past some of that and look to get to the meat of what's being said. Anyway, the series up to part 6, where I am, is very good. Hope some of you enjoy it.