meditation gives you access to the religious experience. This is the experience of Jesus, Buddha and every seer in every tradition. If you don't like the word religious or God, how do I have that experience myself? Now imagine that you had that experience, loss of fear of death, spontaneous compassion, love, joy, equanimity,. Truth, goodness, beauty, harmony, and transcendence. What's left? It's freedom. So it's also freedom, freedom from all conditioning, including the fear of death.