Dolores Cannon

Dolores Eilene Taylor Cannon (April 15, 1931 – October 18, 2014) was an American author, self-trained hypnotherapist, and publisher. She was a leader of the New Age movement and a promoter of fringe theories relating to aliens and alternative realities.

Cannon specialized in past life regression and developed a technique that she called the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique. She gained notoriety for claiming to be in contact with Nostradamus through her hypnosis sessions.

In 1992, Cannon founded Ozark Mountain Publishing which specializes in New Age, spirituality, and metaphysical books.

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 when she was sixteen years old.

Career

Hypnotherapy In the 1960s, Cannon began using hypnotherapy to control her weight and to stop smoking. While her husband was stationed in a Navy base in Texas in 1969, a doctor asked the couple to use hypnosis to help a patient who had an eating disorder. In the following months, the Cannons continued hypnosis, and the patient claimed and detailed a further four past lives. She created what she called the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) which she believed allowed her to communicate with the client's subconscious. However, philosopher and academic Robert Todd Carroll notes that Cannon lacked medical training, was self-taught in hypnotherapy, and used the word quantum for her technique although "there is nothing quantum about it". Her findings from these sessions led to several books on extraterrestrials . Cannon was also the head of the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference from 2013 until 2014. Carroll believed that Cannon "cashed in" on the UFO and alien visitation fad and created "a bizarre cosmology on par with L. Ron Hubbard's story of Xenu". This book was reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Cannon published a total of seventeen books covering New Age topics such as extraterrestrial worlds, lost civilizations, parallel universes, spiritual awareness, and mysteries such as the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster, and Stonehenge. Some of her books were about her work helping people recover their past lives; she claimed to have taken some clients back to lives on planets other than Earth. She also wrote about how her Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique could cure AIDS, cancer, diabetes, flesh wounds, heart conditions, kidney diseases, vision issues, and other medical conditions.

Speaker and teacher Cannon was a frequent speaker for New Age conferences. She spoke at the Global Sciences Congress in Denver, Colorado in August 1991. In November 1991, she spoke at the world's largest holistic exposition, the New Age Whole Life Expo in Los Angeles, California. Their children included son Tom and daughters Gloria, Julia, and Nancy. Over 21 years, the family moved frequently for her husband's Naval assignments, sometimes to international locations.

Cannon died at the Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on October 18, 2014.

Legacy Cannon became "a central figure in conspiracy theory communities" and spread her beliefs in books and presentations about alien contact, Atlantis, alternative realities, reincarnation, and the concept of starseeds or individuals from other star systems who occupy human bodies on Earth. Author Ashwin Vinoo says that Cannon's work on aliens "led to propaganda" and created a narrative that "was implanted into the UFO community..."

Selected works

BookLocation of publicationPublisherYear ISBNReferencesConversations With Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained, vol. 1 Boulder American West Publishers 1989 978-1886940000 Jesus and the Essenes: Fresh Insights into Christ's Ministry and the Dead Sea Scrolls. (The Life and Times of Jesus #1) Bath Gateway Books 1992 A Soul Remembers Hiroshima Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 1993 Keepers of the Garden Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 1993 Between Death & Life: Conversations with a Spirit Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 1993 They Walked With Jesus: Past Life Experience With Christ. (The Life and Times of Jesus #2) Bath Gateway Books 1994 Legend of Starcrash Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 1994 Legacy From the Stars Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 1996 Custodians: Beyond Abduction Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 1998 The Convoluted Universe Book 1 Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2001 The Convoluted Universe Book Two Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2005 The Convoluted Universe Book Three Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2008 Five Lives Remembered Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2009 The Convoluted Universe Book Four Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2011 The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2011 The Search for Hidden, Sacred Knowledge Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2014 The Convoluted Universe Book Five Huntsville Ozark Mountain Publishing 2015 Horns of the GoddessHuntsvilleOzark Mountain Publishing2023978-1956945218