Alex
Administrator
I really like where you're going with this. it does seem like ( and I've certainly been guilty of this) that we can fall into a checklist kind of approach to near-death experience: tunnel... check, life review... check, feeling of love... check, jesus... check.Most NDEs have kind and loving characteristics. That's putting it mildly. Commonly the experiencer reports overwhelming love, to an extent not found in this physical life. That occurs regardless of the name assigned to any being encountered.
I've actually been looking for NDE accounts where a powerful spiritual being is encountered AND the being gives his/her/its name. Such accounts are very few. The only one I came across recently was to me unsatisfying. I might even suggest it was fictionalised, though I like to give the benefit of the doubt.
More commonly, the vast majority of accounts which I've heard or read, the only name, if any, is assumed either at the time or maybe with hindsight when recollecting. The person trying to make sense of the experience supplies the name. The being is otherwise nameless.
when in fact, as you point out, what they're really saying is " wow, forget about everything else, that was the most overwhelming experience of love that I've ever encountered"