How do you explain the exceptionally strong, persistent feelings of deja vu that some people experience?
Depending upon one’s own scientific and religious beliefs, there are varying explanations for deja vu. There are those who say that it is simply a phenomenon of the mind, an interplay of complex psychological processes, affecting some people more than others. Alternatively, a popular belief in some Eastern cultures – and to a much lesser extent, yet still significantly, in the West – is the theory of reincarnation, which is another way that many people account for our most mysterious feelings, aversions, and proclivities. I am neither a scientist nor a theologian and little qualified to debate these or other theories, except to say that I don’t suppose any of them will ever be confirmed or disproved by man. A theory that I do believe will eventually be proven, and which offers an alternative or even complementary explanation for deja vu, is one that I proposed in my 1988 book, Petitioning Reality with Faith. It came to me in a dream, over twenty years ago, in response, I feel, to my pr
