The tunnel of light is most often described as a tunnel with a light at the end. The patient is drawn without effort toward the light. The light does not remain simply light, but becomes one or more persons.
The persons who are formed are members of Christ, (the body of Christ), and they may be any member of the person 22
of Christ: Jesus, deceased family, Moses, a saint, guardian angel, Buddha. The most commonly encountered individuals are Jesus, family and angelic guides, (tours of Heaven are common).
The tunnel was explained by Jesus himself to Barbara W.
as being a conduit between different ‘worlds’ or levels of spiritual advancement in the universe, with Hell being the lowest and darkest, and Heaven being all light.23 Jesus compared this conduit or tunnel to a stack of cd’s, and said that if it were room height, earth [human morality], would be only twelve inches from the floor, with more perfect realms increasingly higher.
Distressing NDE’s may report little or no light. This tunnel of light has been recorded for centuries and again presents no particular problem for any theological system.