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Shushan, Gregory. "The Sun told me I would be restored to life": Native American Near-Death Experiences. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 34(3), Spring 2016, p. 134. Case: Enga-gwacu Jim
Journal of Near-Death Studies Vol. 34(3) p. 134, 2016
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During a prolonged illness around 1890, an Eastern Shoshone man named Enga-gwacu (Red-shirt) Jim had a vision in which the sun told him he was going to die but could return to life if he wished. His soul, described as 10 inches tall, left his body through his thigh. When he looked back at his body, he saw it was still breathing, but after three paces it dropped cold and dead. Something suddenly came down and went clean through his soul. He descended and found himself in another world where he encountered a helper of A'po (the Father), described as a handsome Indian, who was making some dead men over again. A'po told Enga-gwacu Jim "You don't look very ill," then withdrew a thin wire from a leather bag and tapped it three times. Then the whole world opened up and he could see the earth plainly, seeing everything there including his own body lying dead. The Sun told him he would be restored to life. Following his experience, Enga-gwacu Jim questioned Shoshone medicine-men concerning a hereafter but mistrusted both their statements and those of missionaries because they failed to tally with his personal experiences.
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Prolonged illness with vision of death, body observed as dead
Saw own body lying dead from outside perspective, specific details of other world
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