I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that death is not an end but a shift to a different state of existence.
Raymond Moody expresses his belief that death should not be feared as it is merely a transition to another reality. His perspective is shaped by his research into near-death experiences and personal encounters, leading him to conclude that death may lead us to a new form of existence rather than being the ultimate end of life.
In practice
During a speech on overcoming fear, one might use this quote to emphasize the concept of death as a transition.
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'
No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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