Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

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

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

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

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.