I read some of a book called Journey of Souls. It says the color of a soul indicates its development, and roughly corresponds to the light emitted by stars, such that red and white souls are beginners, yellow and gold souls are intermediate, and blue and violet souls are advanced. Keeping with the violet thing, it says God's light is such a deep shade of violet that we can't even see it, here or there.
This is a bit different from NDEs, of course. Journey of Souls is about people under hypnosis viewing what happens after death in a past life though. Apparently NDEs take place in just one area of the afterlife. Things are different once you get past that part. The thing that's probably most surprising is that territories are well defined in the afterlife, and people rarely interact with anyone outside a group of five to twenty people that they're in. There was one woman who described being sad after realizing her father wasn't in her soul group, so they couldn't interact in the afterlife, but later became calmer when she realized why it had to be that way.
Edit: I gotta admit, "The afterlife exists, but it's unsatisfying bullshit," does sound way more plausible to me than either "There is no afterlife," or "There is an afterlife, and it's great." Perhaps my expectations have been tempered way too much by my Earth experience.
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