Sandy:
 
You are right - I have a tape of Dr. Eby. He was an OB doctor who delivered thousands of babies and he had a very authentic after-life experience, so did Betty Malz, who wrote a book "My Glimpse of Eternity," You can tell from their experiences that what happened to them was very real but it was also scriptual and I believe it is part of God-given "signs" at the end of the age.  My own brother had one such experience that I know was genuine. Dr. Rawlings was a physician who wrote a book about such experiences. But there are "copy cats" out there that have experiences that are unscriptual. The devil is a copy cat and always has been. As I said, if it is from God, it will not go against what is in the scriptures! It will not take away from them or "invent" unbiblical  places like purgatory--- and people won't come back from them saying that there is no hell. Good post Sandy!
 
Rene