Dolores Cannon

American hypnotherapist and author (1931–2014)

Dolores Eilene Taylor Cannon (April 15, 1931 – October 18, 2014) was an American author, self-taught hypnotherapist, and publisher who developed the QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) (QHHT) and, over more than four decades of regression sessions, compiled client accounts of past lives on other planets, extraterrestrial contact, and the alleged seeding of Earth by extraterrestrial geneticists. She became a prominent figure of the New Age movement and a promoter of fringe claims involving aliens, reincarnation, and alternative realities, gaining wider public notoriety for her three-volume Conversations with Nostradamus, in which she said she transmitted prophecies of Nostradamus through hypnotized subjects. In 1992 she founded Ozark Mountain Publishing, a specialized New Age and metaphysics press that issued her own books — including Keepers of the Garden, The Custodians, The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, and the five-volume Convoluted Universe series — alongside works by more than fifty other authors.

Early life

Dolores Eilene Taylor was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 15, 1931. Her parents were Mary Elizabeth (née Hardin) and Arthur Taylor. She completed her education in 1947 at the age of sixteen. In 1951 she married Johnny Cannon of Kansas City, Missouri, a career officer in the United States Navy who served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Over the following 21 years the family moved frequently for her husband's Naval assignments, sometimes to international locations; they had a son, Tom, and three daughters, Gloria, Julia, and Nancy.

Hypnotherapy and early regression work

In the 1960s Cannon began using hypnotherapy to control her weight and to stop smoking, learning the technique from her husband, who was an amateur hypnotist. While Johnny Cannon was stationed at a Navy base in Texas in 1969, a doctor asked the couple to use hypnosis to help a patient with an eating disorder; under hypnosis the patient began claiming she had been a flapper in 1920s Chicago in a previous life, and in subsequent sessions described four further past lives. The research stalled when Johnny Cannon was nearly killed in a car accident later that year and became a partial amputee who used a wheelchair for the rest of his life; the family relocated to Madison County, Arkansas and lived on his military pension. He died on April 30, 1994.

In the late 1970s Cannon returned to hypnotherapy as a client-facing practice, and after thousands of past life regression sessions she developed her own theories about reincarnation and a method she branded the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), which she said allowed the practitioner to communicate with the client's subconscious. Cannon claimed that QHHT could purportedly heal essentially any medical condition by connecting the hypnotized subject with a "different plane of consciousness." Philosopher Robert Todd Carroll has noted that Cannon had no medical training, was self-taught in hypnotherapy, and that despite her branding "there is nothing quantum about" the method.

Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique

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Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique

QHHT is described by practitioners as inducing a deep somnambulistic trance to access what Cannon termed the "Higher Self" or subconscious, which according to Cannon holds complete knowledge of the client's history across all incarnations and can answer questions about health, life purpose, and prior-life contexts. According to trained practitioners, the Higher Self — not the therapist or the regression narrative — answers the client's questions directly, with the practitioner facilitating rather than directing. Cannon established the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy, which taught students from around the world in person and through books and recordings and has since trained hundreds of practitioners internationally. After Cannon's death her daughter Julia Cannon continued training through the Academy, which maintains a tiered certification system with Level 3 being the highest credential; Level 3 practitioners — including Suzanne Spooner, who trained directly under Dolores Cannon in 2012 — have applied the method to ET-contact research and contemporary geopolitical-guidance sessions, including QHHT sessions addressing the 3I/Atlas event and the role of the Trump administration in disclosure.

Writing career

Cannon wrote general articles for newspapers and magazines and worked as a stringer for the Northwest Arkansas Times for ten years. Because of the fringe nature of her hypnotherapy research she was unable to find a publisher for it throughout the 1970s and 1980s; it took her nine years to place her first book. Her first published work was the three-volume Conversations with Nostradamus (American West Publishers, 1989), which contained the translation of nearly 1,000 prophecies she said she had obtained through past-life regression sessions and "direct psychic contact" with Nostradamus. The series was reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post; Post reviewer Alex Heard described Cannon as a millennialist who "views current events through blood-colored glasses." She also wrote about alleged past-life interactions with Jesus.

Cannon published a total of seventeen books during her lifetime covering New Age topics including extraterrestrial worlds, lost civilizations, parallel universes, spiritual awareness, and mysteries such as the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster, and Stonehenge. Several described her work helping clients reportedly recover past lives, with some allegedly taken back to lives on planets other than Earth. She also wrote that her Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique could cure AIDS, cancer, diabetes, flesh wounds, heart conditions, kidney diseases, vision issues, and other medical conditions. Her books were translated into more than twenty languages and were international bestsellers, reportedly especially popular in Russia and Eastern Europe. In reviewing one of her books, The Stirling Review noted that opinions on Cannon's work would range from controversial to "dangerous nonsense."

ET and starseed findings

Cannon became interested in UFO and extraterrestrial investigations in 1985 and began using her hypnosis technique with individuals who claimed to have been abducted by aliens; the resulting case material produced several books on alleged ET contact. She later served as head of the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference from 2013 until 2014. Carroll wrote that Cannon "cashed in" on the UFO and alien-visitation fad and built "a bizarre cosmology on par with L. Ron Hubbard's story of Xenu."

Beginning in the 1980s, Cannon's regression clients are said to have spontaneously reported prior incarnations on other worlds and described allegedly having volunteered to incarnate on Earth at a critical planetary juncture. She systematized these accounts in The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth (Ozark Mountain Publishing, 2011), describing three successive waves of volunteer souls — so-called starseeds — who are said to have chosen Earth lives to assist in its consciousness transition. Earlier books Keepers of the Garden (1993) and The Custodians: Beyond Abduction (1998, collecting twelve years of ET-contact cases from 1986 onward) present client accounts of ET geneticist "gardeners" who allegedly seeded Earth and of abduction experiences featuring distorted time, screen memories, and implants. The technique has also been applied in secret space program research: Jean-Charles Moyen used a Cannon-method session conducted by his wife to recover alleged SSP memories, and fellow experiencer David Rousseau reportedly described the same events in a separate Cannon-method session.

Speaker, teacher and working methods

Cannon was a frequent speaker at New Age conferences. She spoke at the Global Sciences Congress in Denver, Colorado in August 1991, and in November 1991 at the New Age Whole Life Expo in Los Angeles. In December 1991 the Japanese television network TVW interviewed her for a documentary on account of her Nostradamus books, and in 1992 she was interviewed on the CBS television program Doorways to the Unknown and toured Israel, England, and Europe in support of Jesus and the Essenes. She spoke at the Ozark UFO Conference in 1997.

Practitioners who trained under Cannon directly describe her as possessing exceptional recall across her entire body of work. Level 3 QHHT practitioner Suzanne Spooner, who trained under Cannon in 2012 and subsequently assisted her and Julia Cannon in teaching classes, described Cannon as having "a mind like a steel trap" — simultaneously writing two or three books, teaching internationally, and maintaining total recall of client details: "You could sit down with her and say, 'Hey, Dolores, what about in your book Jesus and the Essenes when your subject was talking about this or that?' And she would just, her head would go right there." Michael Salla estimated that by around 2001, when he first encountered her work, Cannon had already been practicing regression hypnosis for over two decades and had worked with thousands of clients.

Ozark Mountain Publishing

In 1992 Cannon founded Ozark Mountain Publishing as a specialized New Age and metaphysics press that released her own titles alongside those of other authors on related subject matter. As of 2023 the firm has released books by more than fifty authors on topics including metaphysics, UFOs, spirituality, alternative healing, reincarnation, and ancient history. Following Cannon's death, her daughter Julia Cannon succeeded her as head of both the publishing house and the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy.

Personal life and death

Cannon was a member and president of the Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #2956 in Springdale, Arkansas. She died at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on October 18, 2014, and was cremated at Brashears Funeral Home in Huntsville, Arkansas.

QHHT in ET, SSP and Atlantis research

Level 3 QHHT practitioner Sarah Breskman Cosme has described her discovery of the technique as guided: a psychic reportedly told her she was "missing something in your life because you're supposed to do this — this career, Dolores Cannon's method of hypnosis" — prompting her to seek training and eventually become a master-level practitioner. Breskman applied QHHT to multiple clients who independently claimed to recall past lives in Atlantis and Lemuria, recovering accounts of alleged DNA-altering vaccines, extraterrestrial seeding of civilizations, and crystalline technology — material compiled in her 2020 book A Hypnotist's Journey to Atlantis. One client's severe brain tumor reportedly resolved after the first QHHT session, with the client's Higher Self purportedly explaining that "the very purpose of this tumor was to get her to see me" — meaning the practitioner — so they could together uncover and share historical knowledge about Atlantis.

Suzanne Spooner has applied QHHT to assist alleged secret space program experiencer Mark Domizio in recovering memories from his claimed SSP service — a collaborative process that Spooner says also produced evidence reportedly corroborating Domizio's testimony through independent sessions.

Legacy

Cannon has been described as becoming "a central figure in conspiracy theory communities," spreading her beliefs through books and presentations about alleged alien contact, Atlantis, alternative realities, reincarnation, and the concept of starseeds, or individuals said to originate from other star systems who occupy human bodies on Earth. Author Ashwin Vinoo has argued that Cannon's work on aliens "led to propaganda" and created a narrative that "was implanted into the UFO community." Writing in The Skeptic's Dictionary, Robert Todd Carroll called Cannon "the poster child" for the New Age movement but said he was undecided as to "whether Dolores Cannon was a charlatan, a fraud, or a sincere delusional person." The QHHT training she provided in person and through books and tapes is credited with informing the practices of hundreds of present-day hypnotherapists, past-life regressionists, and astrologers around the world. The Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy and Ozark Mountain Publishing both continue to operate under Julia Cannon's leadership.

Selected works

See also

• Alien abduction
• Hypnotic induction
• Julia Cannon
• Ozark Mountain Publishing
• QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique)
• Reincarnation
• Starseed

External links

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• The Three Waves of Volunteers – Part One with Dolores Cannon (The Edge)
• The Three Waves of Volunteers – Part Two with Dolores Cannon (The Edge)

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