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

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

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

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

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

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.