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Who was Dolores Canon? 🔮
Dolores Cannon worked as a hypnotherapist for almost 50 years. She started out to help people overcome addictions such as smoking and weight control. Her career led her down an unexpected path where she delved into the subconscious mind, specializing in past life regression. This included people recalling things that are hard to comprehend like past lives and reincarnation.
While in Texas in 1969, a doctor asked her to help a patient who had an eating disorder with her hypnosis techniques. Under hypnosis, the patient started talking about a previous life as a flapper (a stylish subculture of young Western women in the 1920s) in Chicago during the 1920s. In the following months, she used hypnosis to regress the patient through five previous lives. She continued to develop and refine her own unique method of hypnosis known as Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT).
Through thousands of hypnosis sessions, she claimed to have uncovered information about reincarnation, the purpose of life and what happens after we die. Dolores’s way of explaining her hypnotherapy and past-life regression methodologies, along with the details that she would obtain from clients, help bridge understanding and/or open people’s minds to these phenomena. Details included that we inhabit our bodies to experience this reality for soul growth (learning lessons) and experiences (enjoying what life has to offer). She found that people said that living on Earth is one of the hardest experiences we choose, but it gives greater soul growth as a result and this links with Near Death Experiences where people have said the same thing.
Here’s a summary of her key ideas on these topics:
1. Past Lives
Cannon believed that humans have lived many past lives, sometimes as different genders, races, or even non-human entities.
Through her Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), she claimed clients could access the Subconscious (Higher Self), revealing past lives and the lessons learned from them.
She described Earth as a school where souls undergo multiple incarnations to grow spiritually.
Some past lives are not on Earth, and she reported cases of people remembering lives on other planets or as beings from other dimensions.
2. Soul Contracts
She believed that before being born, souls make agreements (soul contracts) to experience specific challenges, relationships, and events that will help them evolve.
These contracts are made in the Spirit Realm with the guidance of higher beings.
People choose their families, friends, and even hardships based on what they need to learn in this lifetime.
Even difficult relationships (e.g. with abusive partners or toxic people) might be part of a karmic lesson or an opportunity for growth.
3. Life After Death
Cannon’s research suggested that after death, the soul transitions to a review phase, where it evaluates the life it just lived.
Souls do not face punishment but instead analyze what they learned and what they could have done differently.
Some souls reincarnate quickly, while others spend time in the spirit world before choosing their next life.
There are different levels of existence beyond Earth, where advanced souls can evolve without needing physical reincarnation.
She also spoke of the “New Earth,” where spiritually evolved souls would transition to a higher frequency version of Earth.
Dolores Canon Books and Videos 📚
Check out the Dolores Cannon videos of interviews discussing her different findings below (including past lives, soul contracts and life after death) and her portfolio of highly acclaimed books here, including ‘Between Death and Life: Conversations with a Spirit‘, ‘The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth‘, and ‘The Convoluted Universe: Book One‘.
Children that Remember Past Lives 🧒
Dolores Cannon’s work links with children who remember past lives and recall profound, detailed facts that get proven correct and would be impossible for them to know otherwise. This includes a story of a child in Syria that recalled being murdered in his previous life and then got the murderer convicted for the crime (as the murderer was still alive), providing evidence that nobody had found beforehand (the first video below). Some believe that birthmarks are remains of wounds from previous lives.
In addition, some claim to recall meeting passed friends on their death and choosing the next parents for their next life. The second video below discusses this, with a man that describing pre-birth experiences, including seeing where his parents conceived him (details of the room such as colors and location)! This again links with the idea that we choose to inhabit our bodies from the other side.
Pre-Birth Memories from Near Death Experiences 💭
A profound Near Death Experience (NDE) that brought back pre-birth memories is that of Aaron Green. Aaron describes an NDE he had shortly before his sixth birthday after suddenly being unable to breathe. As his body collapsed, his consciousness left his body, and he observed events from outside his body. He experienced a rapid, detailed life review in which he not only relived his own emotions, but also felt the emotional impact of his actions on others, especially his parents.
While out of his body, he gained intuitive knowledge through direct understanding rather than spoken communication. He realized he was not his physical body, but a soul (an orb of consciousness) and remembered existing before birth. He recalled originating in a “sea of light” with many other souls, where he chose selflessness by giving up a gift, which led to being selected for further spiritual development. He encountered a powerful creator being (which he calls God, that appeared like a very bright sun and had beings/spirit guides within itself), who explained that souls must freely choose virtues like love, compassion, and honesty through lived experience, rather than being forced into them, because free will is essential. This links to the meaning of life/life purpose explained in the alleged capture of an extraterrestrial being when asked questions about life (more can be read in this post).
Aaron remembered choosing to incarnate on Earth from many possible planets, feeling strongly that Earth was where he wanted to learn. He also recalled having lived many past lives and working with spiritual guides to plan his current one. Together, they selected his parents, gender, appearance, intelligence, and life challenges to best support his spiritual growth. He initially liked the idea of being a ginger girl, as it was a rarer on Earth to be ginger and he thought it was “a cool look”, but the experiences and growth he needed wasn’t available in this state (he needed to choose different parents and looks). Some hardships, including injuries, were understood as consequences of actions in past lives, not as punishment, but as opportunities to learn from them (why you shouldn’t do them and their effects) and resolve karmic debt.
He was shown that between lives, souls inhabit realms that reflect their inner nature. Loving souls experience pleasant realms, while hateful souls experience unpleasant ones. He remembered having close spiritual friends and a joyful realm he would return to after this life.
Eventually, a being of light told him he must return to his body, and he instantly recovered physically. Later, his guides asked him to agree to forget the experience so he could live his life as intended, promising the memories would return later. Years afterward, reading about Eben Alexander’s near death experience triggered the return of his memories.
The central message Aaron takes from the experience is the meaning of life/our life purpose is to grow as a soul and become more godly; build positive traits love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, integrity, and service to others are essential for spiritual growth and lead to greater happiness beyond this life (then we can ascend to higher realms/before having these soul growth experiences, we are not ready to access higher realms). Life also has great experiences for us to enjoy, but soul growth is the key objective.
An interview of his can be viewed below:
You can read more about Dolores Cannon via her category here or on her site here. You can also read more into life after death here.
