This is the Past Lives podcast episode 27.

I'm your host, Simon Bown.

My mission here at the Past Lives podcast is to investigate evidence that demonstrates survival of the human soul.

We will look at past life memories, near-death experiences, spirit communication

and other incredible phenomena. And you can visit my website at www.pastliveshypnosis.co.

This week I'm talking to Dr. Gregory Shushan. We discuss his fascinating book, Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions.

Gregory Shushan explores the relationship between NDEs and beliefs about the afterlife in traditional indigenous societies.

Gregory, thank you very much for coming on to the past lives podcast.

It's great for you to give us your time.

I was really loved reading your book, Near Death Experience in Indigenous Religions.

Thanks very much.

Can you tell us how it is that you came to write this book?

Yeah.

Well, first of all, thanks for inviting me on your podcast.

It's a nice honor to be here.

So this book is a sort of thematic sequel to my earlier book, which was called Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations.

That book dealt with afterlife beliefs in the ancient world in ancient Egypt,

Mesopotamia, India, pre-Buddhist China, and pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican civilizations.

That was, in that book, I looked at the afterlife beliefs first and then kind of tried to

determine if they might have been influenced by near-death experiences um with a new book that

what's interesting about it is uh there actually accounts of near-death experiences in the ethnographic and missionary and explorer literature of these indigenous societies.

And by indigenous societies, I mean mostly small-scale pre-industrial industrial societies in Africa, the Pacific region, and North America.

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