Some of what we classify as religious experience can be directly relevant to science, particularly to psychology. The discoveries of Buddhist meditation indicate that much of present psychological methods and assumptions are based on one particular limited form of knowing while other levels of knowing reveal a different portrait of the human mind and its capabilities. The knowing revealed by such deeper awareness includes: an nonjudgmental form of knowing that appears to pacify mental disturbances, an expansive panoramic knowing that reveals the interdependence of phenomena, an open and free knowing that releases, a timeless direct knowing, and an unconditional knowing not separate from a sense of inherent value. Such forms of knowing are traditionally understood to give rise to intelligent compassionate actions. The progressive development of these forms of knowing is illustrated by examples from the autobiography of a noted martial artist.