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.
Raymond MoodyRead
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.'
Interpretation
The quote highlights the uncertainty surrounding the relationship between consciousness and the physical world.
Raymond Moody encourages reflection on the profound question of how our subjective experience of consciousness relates to the material aspects of existence. He points out that while those in the hard sciences might seek concrete answers, there remains a significant philosophical gap regarding our understanding of consciousness, and some individuals are hesitant to acknowledge this uncertainty.
In practice
In a lecture on consciousness studies, one might quote Moody to illustrate the limits of scientific understanding.
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.
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.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
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