Editorial Reviews  
The publisher, Thierry Bogliolo <info@findhornpress.com> , January 11, 1999 
Not all past lives are really past lives... but some are!  
Everyone who has given even a passing thought to past lives must have wondered, ‘who could I have been?’ Past lives can intrude on the present, affecting our well-being and particularly relationships, and when that happens, we may become very confused and need some idea of what is going on! Judy Hall is one of Britain’s most experience past life therapists. She has been practicing Past Life Therapy and Karmic Astrology for over twenty years and has worked with many hundreds of clients, some of them famous. She conducts workshops in Past Life Exploration all over the world. Having identified a need for expert training, she now teaches therapists from many different backgrounds how to incorporate Past Life Healing into their work. She is an experienced lecturer and author of several books including Principles of Past Life Therapy (HarperCollin) and Hands across Time (Findhorn Press). The idea of ‘past lives’ can perhaps be better expressed as ‘other lives’. Once we move out of the present time frame, time does not appear as linear and chronological but rather as a spiral which is all around us with everything happening at once. From the center of the spiral, anything can be accessed and drawn into the present life. So, Deja Who? explores the nature of time, the between life state and ‘future’ lives as well as seeming ‘past’ lives. Case material is offered by way of illustration and graphic example. 
The book explores past life therapy for healing and personal growth and relevance to relationship issues. Many people apparently regress to the same past life personality (someone famous); others to specific historical groups. This is not new phenomenon and the same old faces appear time after time, King Arthur and Pharoah Akhenaton and their courts, Mary Queen of Scots and others. Some surprising personages also emerge, such as Judas and Emma Hamilton (Nelson’s mistress), bringing up a person’s contemporary issues of betrayal and hopelessness. These multiple personality repetitions seem to undermine the validity of recalled lives. The book explores many possible explanations, such as collective memory, cryptamnesia, soul groups, accessing the Akashic records and imprinting. Judy Hall suggests that when in regression, people may also experience lives that are symbolic and allegoric rather than actual ‘truth’, but this does not make them any less valuable – if they are understood rightly. Indeed, the information can be used to heal and expand the present life.