But let’s just say that everyone who has ever given evidence of this light was being 100% truthful. Then, let’s assume that this experience is not the result of any chemical reactions in a body that may be chock full of adrenaline, dopamine, phenethylamine, and maybe, if in a hospital, experienced repeated, high-voltage jolts to the heart, and is likely under a high-intensity light source.

So we’re assuming 100% honesty and no environmental stimuli, no hormonal, drug, and neither medically administered nor naturally occurring neurotransmitters are responsible.

What is that light? What if it wasn’t heaven? What if it wasn’t angels or Jesus or God? What if it was a trick by something or someone sinister? What if it was a place of judgement? A pathway to both Heaven and Hell? A place as accessible by the minions of Hell as by the angels of Heaven. What if it fell?

Pretend for a moment that Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, are all sort of right. None of them completely, but they are right about a glorious afterlife. A greater power. Celestial beings. All balanced by an absolute and complete evil.

Is that light so comforting now? What else is in that dark tunnel with you?

It’s a fascinating set of questions with limitless other possiblities, resulting in more questions.

Such as, what if you found that while inside the tunnel, you were not alone? You were with others just as scared and lost as you. What if you also found that you had free will? That you weren’t drawn like a moth to a flame? All you had was the knowledge that soon, you would be weighed, measured, and possibly found wanting. No matter where you turned, you were doomed, but you had no way of knowing to what you were doomed exactly.

That is one of the story lines in the second season of the Arkangel serial. Hope you like the way we see it.