1 The “continuum mysteriosum” is my invention, borrowing from Rudolf Otto’s mysterium tremendum. Otto was a famous 20th century German theologian. His The Idea of the Holy is one of the most important books on God in the century. Otto proposed that one can have a religious experience of God that is numinous—non-rational, non-sensory, and outside the “self.” The numinous is a mystery (Latin:...