Cosmic Buddha and White tunnel (trap) of the Devas

Yesterday, reading Mircea Eliade's "The two and the One", (or Mephistopheles et l'Androgyne) I was a bit surprised to read a description of the white tunnel (trap) in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Actually, I think I've heard this before, but I didn't really reflect on it. This book is really interesting, explaining different kinds of spiritual lights. From p. 37 and 38:

"For Mahayana [buddhism] the clear light symbolises at once the ultimate reality and the nirvana consciousness. All men confront this Clear light for some moments at the instant of death; yogins experience it during samadhi and the Buddhas experience it without interruption. Death is a process of reabsorption [...]. When the process of reabsorption is complete, the dying man percieves a light like that of the moon, then like that of the Sun, then sinks into deep darkness. he is suddenly awakened by a dazzling light; this is his meeting with his real Self [...]. The Tibetan Book of the Dead calls this Light the "Pure Truth", and describes it as 'subtle, sparkling, bright, dazzling, glorious and radiantly awesome'. The text enjoiuns the dead man: 'Be not daunted thereby, nor terrified, nor awed. That is the radiance of thine own true nature. Recognize it!' At this moment from the heart of this radiance bursts a sound reverberating like a thousand thunders simultaneously sounding. 'This is the natural sound of thine own real self [...] whatever may come -sounds, lights or rays - are, all three, unavble to harm thee [...] these apparitions are thine own thought-forms. Recognise this to be the Bardo.'

Then the text describes how not to fall back into the matrix/reincarnation cycle again (p. 38/39):
"But, as is the case with the majority of humnas, the dead man cannot put this advice intom practice. Conditioned by the larmic situation, he lets himself be drawn tinto the cycle of manifestations characteristic of the Bardo state. On the forth day after his death, he is warned that he will see radiances and deities. 'The whole heavens will appear deep blue' He will see the Bhagavan Vairochana, [a cosmic Buddha, worshipped in esoteric buddhism and more] white in colour, then from its heart heart the wisdom of Dharma-Dhatu, always blue in colour, will shoot forth, shining, transparent, gloroius with a light so radiant he will scarcely be able to look at it. 'Along with it there will also shine a dull white light from the devas, which will strike against thy brow.' Because of the power of bad karma, the soul will be frightened of the bright light of the Dharma-Dhatu and will become fond of the dull white light of the devas. But the text advices the dead man not to attach himself to the light of the devas, in order not to be drawn into the whirl of the six Lokas [worlds], and to put his whole thought on Vairochana. Thus he will finally merge, in a halo of rainbow light, in the heart of Vairochana and obrain Buddhahood in the Central realm of Sambhoga-Kaya.
For six more days the dead man will have a chance of choosing between the pure lights - representing liberation and identification with the essential Buddha- and the impure lights, symbolising some form of after-lifer, in other words a return to Earth."
Eliade then describes that those who practice yoga or have attained gnosis will be able to discern between these lights.

If we are to interpret this, some devas (often interpreted as angels or lesser gods in hinduism) are the same as those who are resposible for the white tunnel... no big news, perhaps. But has anyone heard of there being t w o lights in connection to NDE's?
Maybe they (the people with NDE's) were so scared of the True light that they only could recall the "dull light" after going back to life... has anyone read the Tibetan Book fo the Dead to see how much of this is Eliade's interpretations, with the person returning back to Earth afterwards? Any thoughts on this?