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This paper studies the enigma of religious people and of belief by means of a singular encounter with ten contemplative nuns with whom in depth semi-directive interviews and Rorschach and TAT tests were performed. Freud interpreted religion as a beneficial illusion, although devoid of reason— Credo quia absurdum—governed by the pleasure principle and object idealization, contrary to art and science, and marked by sublimation. The thought content of mysticism is inherent in the oceanic feeling, an attempt at religious consolation in the face of threats from the outer world and it is articulated around paradox. Projective tests undeniably show an experience of union with the ideal object, God being a narcissistic double for which the objectivizing function achieves the ecstasy of the abolition of separation from the object and from death. The quest for a perfect, sublime, and superhuman object appears to be just as much a paradox of death as of life.