(July 2009). A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework.The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defense against the growing rationalism of western society.uddhist religious experience is a result of the threefold training of discipline (śīla), meditative concentration (samādhi), and transcendent wisdom (prajnā). Prajñā supernormal abilities are developed from, meditation and are termed higher (knowledge), abhijnā abhijñā or (spiritual). power ṛddhi