At first the Light seems to attract the newly deceased spirit, but at some point the prominent figure indicates that it is not yet time to come into the Light, that there is more work to do in the physical body on the earth plane. The spirit of the person then rejoins the body, often much to the surprise of the people nearby. The Light is so totally peaceful, so indescribably beautiful, that many who return resent the need to come back. It was estimated in 1982 that eight million Americans had gone through the near-death experience. Not everyone who survives a near-death experience reports seeing the Light.
Some people perceive a very hellish scene.
Some simply wander about observing the activities of the living. The level of such activity is said to be the Lower Astral plane. The Lower Astral is a place of intrusive, threatening, dark entities, mischievous spirits, and many lost earthbound discarnate souls. Many of these spirits actively seek some unsuspecting and naive person to harass or attach to for their own selfish purposes. The undeniable implication of the NDE is that the individual personality, the soul consciousness, survives physical death, fully aware and conscious as a discrete entity, a spirit.