If I go too far into the mist and die it instantly teleports me back to my totem without a ghost phase. I appear at the totem as a corpse on the ground. I can then move around, run, jump, scavenge etc all as a corpse lying on the ground. Each time I do an action my corpse jumps up does the action then appears as a corpse again. Tested and repeated several times. By logging and reloading I appear again standing upright.