I've read a lot of NDE accounts, and it seems as if returning always served a positive purpose. Sometimes the purpose for returning was something as simple as taking care of the children a person left behind.
Another reason for returning, a big reason, is sharing what was experienced with other people.
Returnees tell people about the importance of living according to love. They let people know that there is much more to reality than this world, and there is much to look forward to after their life here in this world is completed.
Many near death experiencers go through an extensive life review, and after they return they end up being better people than they were before they had their NDE. It is hard to imagine why a malevolent being would effect such a change. I doubt that a malevolent being could play a part in a person experiencing a life review that is very honest, detailed, and life changing.
When I had an experience that was like an NDE, I felt like I was in the place that I truly belonged. Yet I am here, and I am okay with this, because there are ways in which I can be helpful while here. Yet, I also wish that I was where I truly belong. This is how it is when a person is aware of what life in this world is like, and what life is like in a love-based realm. A person lives according two conflicting desires. So I understand why many NDErs didn't want to return, but did so anyway. If they consider the matter from their higher self perspective, they understand why they chose to return. It isn't as if they will be here for long, when compared to the eternity of their soul.
When I become impatient to return to the light, my higher self will create a dream that helps me remember why I am here. Such dreams are presented in a way where I have a choice, and I choose to stay. In fact, if I was urged to return, I would beg to stay, so I can continue to help. Ways of helping, I have a mother in her 80s that needs my help. I help with retrievals. There are other ways that I help. Since I am able to help now in ways that I won't be able to help years from now, it is best that I stay here.
Regarding the Tibetan Book of the Dead, I haven't read it since the early 1980s and don't remember it well. I'm familiar with Tibetan Buddhism, it has its shortcomings, and I wouldn't make the mistake of concluding that a related text is infallible. There are two main types of Buddhism, Mahayana and Therevaden, and they disagree with each other about some key points.
Perhaps one way to insure that you return to a place of love and integrity after you die, is to live according to those qualities as much as you can, while you are in this world. That way, you will have a tendency to gravitate to a similar realm after you die.
suv wrote on Jun 28th, 2017 at 12:52pm:One thing I've always found interesting about Near death experiences is how often the person is eventually forced back into physical reality. They may meet people in the afterlife, see higher beings or see their own bodies on the operating table, but I see the same pattern occurring of how they were told by something higher that they had to go back and it wasn't their time.
I know someone personally who went through this and felt the push back into their physical body against their will. It shows me that we don't have much free will at all. If we can be forced to come back during a NDE, I believe it's possible we were forced to incarnate (or reincarnate depending on your views) into earth as well. Why doesn't everyone experience an NDE get to decide for themselves if they want to come back, instead of having something else decide for them? I thought we were powerful, spiritual beings who are constantly creating our own reality?
The white light trap is a fascinating topic. The Tibetan book of The Dead also warns about not being attracted to this false light, because it will only lead to reincarnation back into the earth realm, and instead recommends to go to the "radiant luminosity".