Rodger Kamenetz Quotes

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.