Are priests not idols? Are churches not idols? Are they not, by design, intermediaries, stripping you of your own power, your own perceptions, your own capacity to apprehend important truths directly?
Spirituality is about your relationship with the Void. The Void contains everything. It contains terror, and demons. It also contains joy, light and love. It is all of this. And more. Words do not suffice, ideas do not suffice, and I suspect even feelings do not suffice, although they point the way most reliably.
Could we call feelings the words of your deepest self? I kind of think we can and should.