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My headcanon as a half-educated Buddhist first and a tentative Gnostic second is that Jesus was a deva who descended from Rupaloka (the form realm) into Kamaloka (the desire realm) to help free everyone who was trapped there by weakening the influence of mara and the lower gods and widening the path upward for those in the near-death state. So maybe the seemingly benevolent light being people often meet in NDEs and think of as Jesus really is (at least sometimes) Jesus, not a trap like the prison planet people say.