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Any one knows of good information on déjà vu and/or reincarnation?

I have had déjà vu several times in a week consistently since 24 may 2004. This was a day that defined my life as it is today because many strange things happen over time to make a long story short but nothing terrible but definitely life changing, however, that day started the ball rolling on where I am today but I am not compelled to think it is a form of reincarnation but I definitely feel like I have been many places before not to mention have lived life before but in reality I know this as my first life but déjà vu feelings make me think otherwise. Any good books on déjà vu as well as reincarnation and how/if they are related. I am open to look for information specifically on déjà vu alone as well as specifically reincarnation if possible.

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1. Philosophical and religious beliefs regarding the existence or non-existence of an enduring 'self' have a direct bearing on how reincarnation is viewed within a given tradition. There are large differences in philosophical beliefs regarding the nature of the soul (also known as the jiva or atma) amongst the Dharmic Religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Some schools deny the existence of a 'self', while others claim the existence of an eternal, personal self, and still others say there is neither self or no-self, as both are false. Each of these beliefs has a direct bearing on the possible nature of reincarnation, including such concepts of samsara, moksha, nirvana, and bhakti.
2. Deja Vu http://www.howstuffworks.com/question657.htm Reincarnation http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/r/reincarnation.html I've had deja vu but not as much as I used to.
3. funny, I looked this up earlier this week because i was curious about it. one theory is that somewhere in the brain, (in a nut shell) your familiarity briefly gets mixed in with your perception
4. Two books by Peter Novak put forth interesting theories: "The Division of Consciousness: The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche" and "The Lost Secret of Death: Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife". Below is an excerpt about Novak's ideas, copied from http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen09.html <Novak's research uncovered extensive data from both scientific and scriptural sources that all pointed to the same promising yet highly disturbing conclusion - that the human psyche does survive physical death, but often divides entirely apart in the process into separate conscious and unconscious components. Novak suggests that the traditional "reincarnation" and "resurrection" hypotheses can, at long last, be reconciled by factoring the dissimilar scientific qualities and functions of the conscious and unconscious minds into the equation, pointing out that scriptures from a great number of different traditions already reflect just such a divided, "binary-soul" vision of the afterlife. Basically, Novak's theory states that the soul body and spirit body separate after death. The soul body is discarded and the spirit ultimately reincarnates with a new soul body. After a large number of reincarnations, the spirit has discarded a large number of soul bodies. At the time of the "Final Judgment," a doctrine held by all Middle Eastern religions, the so-called "resurrection" will occur. Novak theorizes that at this time, all the discarded soul bodies will reunited with the spirit body. The result will be a world of highly enlightened people knowing all their past lives and their associated life experience and knowledge. Thus, reincarnation and resurrection are not mutually exclusive concepts according to Novak's theory. Not only do elements of both classic psychology and modern sociological research support such a hypothesis, but eerily similar concepts appearing in Biblical, Persian, Egyptian, Gnostic, Greek, Hawaiian, Chinese, Native American, Swedenborgian, and many other traditions raise the intriguing possibility that this peculiar and unfamiliar "Division Theory" may actually be a millennia-old case of deja-vu.">