The main book I know of that gets into this is one that I don't absolutely endorse, but can be interesting: Matrix V: Quest of the Spirit. It's not copying the Matrix movies as the first in the series actually came out over a decade before the movies. If you can read the material at the following link without seeing it as totally crazy, maybe you'd get something out of it.
Matrix V - Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier - GOLD EDITION 2003
Part of what it details is that people who believe there is nothing after death will essentially experience nothing, like being in stasis, until their higher self retrieves them in reintegrates them into the rest of it's being. People who believe in a certain version of heaven or hell will go there, and not percieve any of the other versions available.
Meanwhile people who have a better understanding of the game will know they can go past that, going to an area akin to the "akashic records" some talk about for better further education, either going on their own or asking to be taken there, and eventually returning to their higher self as well.
Actually there is a more mainstream source of books that gets into this, the Monroe trilogy: Journeys out of the Body, Far Journeys, and Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe. All three are treated as prerequisites of Matrix V, and may be easier to digest.
If I die and find myself conscious, I'll ask to be taken to Monroe level 27/the Library. It's difficult to really "prove" until going oneself.