Greetings,

I'm going to say 'all of the above."   
Then for #4,  the gaps you left are
that you are a being a Light when you are perceived in the ether or afterlife. So is Recoverer, Fubar, Alysia, --- every soul is a being of Light when seen without its physical body. A NDE is one way to get out and about without your physical body but there are many reasons we might be out of the physical and see the Lights that are our true essence.

The amount and color of light varies depending on the state of that soul.
Jesus C's Light is steady, strong, and beautiful.  But most people still incarnating have Lightbodies that vary in color and strength depending on their attitudes.

Love, Bets 

In most NDEs the Being of Light [BL) does not identify itself; rather, the clinically dead person projects a familiar and comforting identity onto the BL.  It has almost become a mindless NDE cliche to claim without evidence that the BL appears to Christians as Jesus, to Muslims as Muhammad, and to Buddhists as Siddartha Gautama [the Buddha], etc.  For years, I have challenged posters to find a single example of the BL appearing to Muslims as Muhammad or to Buddhists as the Buddha. One Muslim identified an NDE figure as Muhammad, but this figure was not a BL.  One researcher has a backlog of over 3,000 Asian NDEs, but can report no cases of the BL appearing as the Buddha.  Posters have tried to rationalize this absence on the grounds that one should not expected such identifications.  These rationalizations overlook two crucial facts: (1) Artistic portrayals and statutes of the Buddha are widespread in Asia and one might well expect the untutored Buddhist masses to project a Buddha identify onto the BL.  There is no Koranic reason why Muslims cannot be greeted by Muhammad.  (2) The New Testament never leads one to believe that one will be escorted to Paradise by a BL identifying itself as Jesus. Indeed, the characteristic features NDEs often differ from the prevailing expectations of Christians and non-Christians alike.  

The BL often EXPLICITLY identifies itself as Jesus to Christians and atheists alike.  Atheists typically respond to Jesus thus: But I don't even believe in you!"  To this, Jesus typically ersponds, "But I DO believe in you."  Just occasionally, Jesus appears to non-Christian Jews and Muslims. I have recounted a Muslim mullah's NDE encounter with Jesus that converted him to Christianity.   Of course, projected identities onto the BL lack evidential value.  Still, I would like to discover such projected identities as Muhammad and the Buddha. What would be significantly evidential are cases in which the BL EXPLICITLY identifies itself as either figure.  Since many alleged NDEs are delirious delusions, it is the patterns that truly matter.  Individual exceptions are to be expected.

Don

I imagine it's just a vagary of my personal situation, but as on the other thread on light my personal experience has not involved 'light beings'. More just states of resting in light with associated feelings of love and so on.

I think Nanner (on ants) that one of the most incredible things about the entire panoply that makes up creation is the way it all simultaneously works, hangs together, is alive and makes sense. There's always the possibility of looking at things at the level of the cell, the person or whatever, and yet we can go much higher (or lower) and there seems to be other forms of being - like the disc/oversoul or whatever.

Go far enough and it's God, with presumably the possibility of all sorts of being in between. And it's not just vertical, you can also look at things in terms of horizontal groupings as well - families, clans, tribes, nations, races, worlds and so on.

I'm just groping for something here. Depending on our particular way of sensing/seeing, intelligence and view we tend to by default see things from only a single fairly partial perspective. But if we can stretch to widen our understanding (not closing down and writing off possibilities or jumping to conclusions is most important) the 'whole' somehow works at every level from unity/the absolute  downwards, outwards and around....