Quantum mechanics was forced to resolve the problem of how to describe uniformly both discrete and continuous motion. Its mathematical formalism is the separable complex Hilbert space. Feynman suggested an equivalent interpretation generalizing the discrete motion as if in all possible trajectories, each of which with different probability.

The talk interprets and generalizes Feynman’s interpretation “hodologically” as a formalized methodology for hodology. After that, the equivalence of the jump-like insight inherent for religious cognition and the continuous and causal method of science can be seen in turn as similar to Feynman’s approach generalized hodologically now.

Then, the cognition by religious experience can be both justified by, and decomposed into a fan distribution of alternative scientific theories or disciplines inconsistent, irrelevant or contradictory to each other. Each of them would represent the religious cognition only probably, in a single “hodos”, pathway, but achievable by a reliable and causal method repeatable by many others.

On the contrary, religious cognition is fundamentally random. It cannot be linked to any definite method and even to any certain religion. The origin of different religions or religious practices should be searched for in different traditions and societies representing in turn different religious pathways rather than in the essence of religious cognition by itself.

One may generalize Husserl’s idea about “philosophy as a rigorous science” on his “phenomenon” identifying form and content, to religious cognition defined consistently and linked to science