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

- Rodger Kamenetz

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

- Rodger Kamenetz

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

- Rodger Kamenetz

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 nat…

- Rodger Kamenetz

Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discer…

- Rodger Kamenetz

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

- Rodger Kamenetz

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

- Rodger Kamenetz

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

- Rodger Kamenetz

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

- Rodger Kamenetz