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One depressing thing, to me, is that a theory says people just imagine the afterlife according to what they were taught. Instead of Jesus, the Hindus apparently see their religion’s figures for example.

That makes perfect sense if you view the brain as just a filter for your consciousness, meaning that you only see what the brain allows you to see. The things and beings that exist on the level we can't see when we're alive, such as God or angels or whatever, probably cannot be described in human terms, or interpreted by the brain in a way that jibes with the physical world.

So, for example, an angel that you can see once your consciousness (soul) has left your body may be a non-corporeal being of an indescribable light, and you can see him in his true form, but once back in your body and limited by the confines of your brain, your brain interprets that being as a blond guy with a beard, because it has no other context with which to interpret it.

In that case, Christians would see God, Jesus, angels etc in a Christian context once their consciousnesses had returned to the brain, while Hindus would see Him in a Hindu context, though God and all the other beings appeared exactly the same to the consciousnesses of both groups of people when they were out of body.