Joan experienced "far memory" her entire life. She was highly psychic and experienced precognitive and prophetic dreams. As a young girl she had a tendency to keep her "secrets" to herself. Joan was born into a wealthy family as the daughter of Jack and Blanche Marshall. Famous people often frequented the Marshall home. One of them was writer H.G. Wells who Joan met when she was sixteen years old. Joan felt comfortable enough with Wells to tell him some of her "secrets." Sympathizing with the young girl, Wells told her, "It is important that you become a writer." He further told her that she should continue to keep her secrets to herself until she was, "... strong enough to bear being laughed at by fools." There is an amusing story recalled by Grant in a biography about meeting Aleister Crowley while visiting America in 1914 when she was seven years old. It seems Crowley came to call on the family but was ordered to leave by Joan's mother after he made inappropriate gestures and threats to Joan's older stepsister whom he fancied. Joan's description of Crowley was that he looked like a "human toad."

Joan was able to recall in exact detail several other lives in Egypt, one as Ra-ab Hotep whose story appeared in two more books, Eye of Horus and Lord of the Horizon and another as a contemporary of Ramesses II. She also recalled lives in Greece in the second century BC, medieval England, and 16th century Italy as Carola di Ludovici a troupe singer who died at age 27. She remembered being burned as a witch, bleeding to death after ordering a court physician in early Rome to cut her wrists, dying from a severe wound to her eye during a joust, breaking her neck in a diving accident, committing suicide twice, dying from snake bites twice, dying from an infection following an insect bite and breaking her back after falling from a horse as a girl named Lavinia. Joan also made links between people she currently knew and people from the past. A family friend by the name of Daisy Sartorius was discovered to be Sekeeta's mother in the Egyptian lifetime which took place in the First Dynasty of Egypt about 3000 BC. Her third husband Denys Kelsey, a physician and psychiatrist, was the Roman physician who cut her wrists in the Roman era. Denys and Joan later shared a life as husband and wife in 18th century England. Denys Kelsey was inexplicably drawn to meet Joan Grant after reading Winged Pharaoh.

Before Joan met Denys Kelsey, she had received extensive psychiatric training working with a psychiatrist during the war years. This knowledge would become invaluable to Denys Kelsey who had begun to use hypnosis as healing tool. He believed that the use of hypnosis combined with Joan's knowledge of reincarnation and ability to resonate with the past lives of others would be invaluable in curing those who suffered from trauma induced fears and phobias. Joan knew from her own experience that many irrational fears were based on emotions that were "throwbacks" to previous lifetimes. Together they surmised that once the cause of fears and anxieties were identified and understood from the past life perspective they could be brought into consciousness where they could be integrated and thus diffused. Since Joan was able to psychically "tap in" to others so it was unnecessary for the patient to relive former traumatic experiences which made recovery much easier. Together they helped many people but at the same time were in full cognizance that the procedure, "...wasn't for everyone." Together they collaborated on the book Many Lifetimes. Other books written by Joan Grant are Far Memory, Time Out of Mind, Life as Carola, Scarlet Feather, Return to Elysium, So Moses was Born, Many Times, Vague Vacation (travel), A Lot to Remember (travel), The Scarlet Fish (children's book), Redskin Morning (children's book), and The Laird and the Lady (fiction).

Grant strove to disabuse herself and her readers of preconceptions, to eschew what she called "group think." She was not interested in blind faith and blind belief, but in what could be perceived as true by the five senses. Her unusual gift of "far memory" -- the ability to remember previous lives, and something she referred to as "sensory awareness". She said that she experienced many realities that are not available to most people.

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