In Grant Cameron's interview he kept repeating consciousness comes first and forms the foundation of reality. I've followed Cameron through the years and was struck by his new way of framing the ET debate. Cameron obviously had some sort of epiphany and was coming from a different direction but one of the commonalities of NDEs is that everything melts into consciousness beyond physical experience. In other words "Everything is consciousness."
NDEs also assert the underlying fabric of consciousness is universal love. Love is the expression of both content and context of non dual existence. One could say this is embodied in Christ Consciousness.
Here is David Ditchfield an average sort of bloke caught up in the muck of life and almost dies a horrible death but doesn't. He writes a book and relates his NDE as his intellect can best articulate it. It obviously has completely changed his life and Alex is trying to tease out the essence of the experience sans Ditchfield's prior belief systems.
However, I don't think you can do that. Its a mistake to assert historical Jesus doesn't exist so some aspect of his experience is not completely valid. Does Jesus exist is like asking does Christ Consciousness exist. Our brains are built to understand through symbolic representations. We apparently arrive on the other side with physically derived perceptions intact. Steve Briggs takes these spiritual figures to be a human archetype question. They seem to exist as a manifestation of the human collective consciousness.
I'll just say we dont know, we cant know the historical Jesus but somehow these archetype figures are appearing in NDEs and fully interactive as talking, loving, joking, instructive figures. Be they Blue Krishna or Mohammed or even Archangel Gabriel. Its all happening in consciousness and IMO one can't stack one reality as more true then another. Alex may have a fuller intellectual grasp of the whole scheme then Ditchfield or myself but will it render an NDE without Jesus? I wouldn't bet on it.
With utmost respect for David Ditchfield I submit another short length PDF of Mellon-Thomas Benedict. This narrative has a larger, expansive perspective. I'll attach the PDF and underneath his web site. I dont mean to distract from Ditchfield's interview but this thread is following a familiar theme.
https://ndestories.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MellensStoryReadByMellen.pdf
https://ndestories.org/mellen-thomas-benedict/