Struggling to understand Julian of Norwich

Sam Jordison: "When I visited, just after the old wooden doors of the building were opened at half-past seven on a wet December morning, I found the place unsettling. For a start there was the cold silence of the empty church and the bare room adjoining it: the site where Julian spent years of her life secluded from society, immersed in hallucinatory visions that she was convinced were sent to her direct from God."