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Dr. Gregory Shushan | Near Death Experience in Indigenous Religion, Afterlife Journeys, & Resurrection
Reanimation of Decaying Bodies and the Mud Turtle Narrative
Indigenous accounts sometimes describe the reanimation of bodies that have already begun to decay, a detail absent from modern Western NDEs. One specific narrative tells of a man named Mud Turtle who revived after being buried alive and subsequently acted out lacrosse games in his sleep. It was believed he was reliving his experiences from the Realm of the Dead, where spirits play the game and the cycle of day and night is reversed.