OK, Knight,
that is alot of questions, but I'll start with a few --

We know there's a heaven because we go there. Bruce Moen, the site's host, taught us to in his books and CD. Do you have a library around that can order his books for you?  You need to experience this for yourself.

We can go there and we find souls for other people, souls we do not know but can identify. We are abit tired of doing this for other people because others need to find out for themselves that they can go there.  You can go there !  It does take alittle time and training  for most of us but some can go quite easily !

Souls can form their past appearance so that they are recognizable to loved ones. they do not have heavy form but enough to see how they looked in their previous life.  did you see the film Conact?  towards  the end she meets her father even though he has already passed on.  That's how it works.

Gotta go--more later.

Bets

So many views and only 2-3 replies?...please leave ur comments....i am really anxious to know

When I have had my OBEs, I usually don't realize that they are "in a dream state" or OBEs while they are occuring. I can feel the clothing I have on during the obe. I see things and hear things just as I do in a waking state. I don't usually smell anything that I can recall. Then, during the experience, I will find one small discrepency that suddenly brings a realization to my mind that this moment isn't happening to me in my "present being." 
In other words, can you tell me what it feels like to be pregnant, carry the baby 9 months, deliver the baby through the birth channel?  How could you prove that experience to me if you haven't had the personal experience yourself? Yet, we all agree that it's possible because some of us have experienced it first hand. Now take 5 women who have been pregnant and had children. All 5 will tell you of a simular experience, yet all 5 are completely different.
When you explore the outer realms, it is a personal discovery, realization and awakening. Only you will KNOW when it's your rememberance, inner knowledge, a recall of something you had once before and agreed to leave in order to pursue new observation and participation and growth. Keep searching!! You are on the right path.
Love and Light-- Carol Ann

Hi Knight, Lots of questions hey? Don't we all have them. None of us have all the answers or we probably wouldnt be here.
Well I will take a crack at some of them. Of course they are explained from my view point and therefor are not nessassarly the same as others. ( or correct)I am not going to rewrite your questions but will just do a few short blurbs.
The brain is an amazing thing. But my personal OOB experiences are not when I am sleeping. I am awake. Sometime I go into a meditative state but I am fully awake and aware. I haven't had a NDE this time in-body so I have no relevant response to that part.
My afterlife "trips" have been more in relationship to retrievals. Reviewing past experiences from other lives I have experienced or in some cases have moved to to assist in helping anouther being or someone connected to me in a spiritual way. Most times its about learning a lession I just didn't get the first time or finally letting go of the experience itself.
I have checked in on a few of my passed over relatives and again not while sleeping. I am not sure if it is a reaction to the loss or a desire to extend love. I think love. I am happy when I see they are somewhere good. I don't like seeing them stuck, in any energy that is holding them back. Whether that is religious or other. Not all religious beliefs are nessassarly a good thing. And you sure don't need my view point on God to get you into where you may want to be.
You awaken or better put, become aware again, in the place you believe you will. Some of them are not so nice. Some better than others and some even in what could be called a heavenly like place. Some, just your home. You could project yourself as having a phyical body somewhat like what you are using here, but its not necessary. I believe it could make the transition easier for a time. If you choose to experience a place that is like here, then having a body like what you use here works out well. But its not nessassary. As for knowing "family" that's easy. I feel the love energy. An example is just like with my mom. I feel her beingness and love. Even without her having an ability to communicate with me for some time. I still feel it. Some people you just feel their beingness and energy. That's sort of what the experience is. You dont even have to know them from this lifetime. Once you drop the earthly body you will find many others who you have experienced real love with over the many living/shaired experiences you have had.
Religion makes no difference at all. You are not going to need to believe in any earthy belief system. Many here will tell you differently. You will need their idea of God to get in the door, but its just not that way. Far more importantly its about what "you" believe in. The energy that you have projected, and excepted into, your life that will move you further towards what is sometimes called home. Love is a great place to start looking, in my opinion.

So that's my view. Not shared by many but given to you with an open heart. I hope you find what you are looking for. If this site can be of any help then we are fulfilling our duty of love expression. By the way Bruce or Bob are not some "Gods" to be followed. They, along with other are attempting to show a way of helping yourself and others. Their ways are not the only ways, just their ways. They do work. Good reading to. Just don't believe that you "have" to use "their way" to get there. In fact if they ever did say that you have to use there way alone to have it all work, you wouldent see me, but for the dust.
Joe