Dolores Cannon - Five Lives Remembered

Five

Lives

Remembered

Dolores Cannon

2009 by Dolores Cannon.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cannon, Dolores, 1931

Five Lives Remembered , by Dolores Cannon

The story of hypnotherapist Dolores Cannons beginning in the field of regression and past lives exploration.

1. Hypnosis 2. Reincarnation 3. God Source 4. Walk-ins

I. Cannon, Dolores, 1931- II. Reincarnation III. Metaphysics IV. Title

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2009928388

ISBN: 978-1-886940-64-2

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Table of Contents

Since 1979, I have been working diligently in the field of reincarnation, past-life therapy and past-life research. In the early days this was often scoffed at by those in the professional field. But in the last few years it has become a valuable tool in the treatment of health issues, phobias, allergies, family relationship problems, etc., that do not respond to conventional types of therapy. Many psychologists now use it, admitting that it doesn't matter if they or the client believe in past existences. The important thing is that it helps the client, and as such it is a worthwhile tool for exploring the subconscious mind. The roots of many problems have been found to stem from trauma in other lives. Often they are not caused by one past life, but a repeated pattern that has been established and is so strong that it carries over into the present lifetime.

This is the type of work I have been doing since 1979. However, many of those wanting to explore their past lives were not looking for answers to complications in this life. Many of them came to me out of curiosity. They simply wanted to see if they had indeed lived before. Often in cases where there was no real aim or goal, the subject would obtain past lives that were mundane and ordinary. Where there was a valid reason for exploring the unknown portions of their minds, the results and information could often be quite startling. The amazing thing is that most obtain information which suggests they have lived before. The deeper the level of hypnotic trance the more information that is released. I have discovered that the best subjects for reincarnation research are the somnambulistic subjects. These people can enter the deepest possible level quite easily, and while there they literally become the past-life personality in every detail. During my years of therapy and research, I have encountered every possible example, but occasionally I would discover someone who lived in an interesting time period or was acquainted with an important person. Thus, I wrote my books about these fascinating cases. This has produced the Conversations With Nostradamus trilogy, Jesus and the Essenes, They Walked With Jesus, Between Death and Life, and A Soul Remembers Hiroshima . Then it expanded into my work with UFO/Extraterrestrial cases: Keepers of the Garden, The Legend of Starcrash, Legacy From the Stars, The Custodians, and finally the advanced metaphysical series: The Convoluted Universe. Along the way my work with hypnosis expanded as I devised my own specialized technique to help people heal through the use of their minds, and contact with their Higher Self. I am now teaching this method all over the world. I am still writing more books relating to my adventures beyond the portals of time and space.

Occasionally, during my radio and TV interviews and my lectures, the questions will be asked: How did you ever get into this, anyway? What made you start doing hypnosis? If time is plentiful, I try to explain the beginnings. If there is not sufficient time, I tell them it is a long story and it is told in the first book I ever wrote, Five Lives Remembered. People are confused, because they are aware of my other books, and they ask, Why hasnt that one been published? The answer is, I tried! Often books are ahead of their time, and that was the case with this one. When I wrote it there were no New Age bookstores, and the normal bookstores only had one shelf, or less, reserved for metaphysical books. It was a genre whose time had not yet come. I sent it out again and again, and only received rejection letters. One publishing house said, Well, we might consider it if you had regressed a famous movie star. Then maybe someone would be interested.

After years of trying and receiving nothing but heartbreak, I put the manuscript aside in my filing cabinet and went on with my work. That did not mean that I quit writing. On the contrary, when I began my regression therapy work in earnest, the information poured in from various clients, and I began to write other books, while Five Lives was forgotten. It eventually took nine years and much continued heartbreak and disappointment before I found my first publisher. By that time I had completed five more books. Along the way I experienced every possible disappointment that can happen to an author. Many times I wanted to scream, I cant do this! It hurts too much! Every time I reached the depths of despair, and thought I should just give up, throw the manuscript against the wall, and return to normal life, the thought would come, All right. If you want to quit, what are you going to do with your life? The answer would always come, I dont want to do anything but write. So I would fight back the tears and begin a new book, not knowing if any of them would ever be published.

When I now lecture at writing conferences, I tell the aspiring writers, So you have written a book, now what? That first book may never be published. You must continue to write. It may be the second or the fourth one that will be published. If you are a real writer, you cannot not write. It becomes such a compulsion, that you would rather write than eat. When it reaches that point, you know your mission. The energy behind it will have become so great that the books will materialize because it is a law of the universe.

As it turned out, it was my fourth, fifth and sixth books that were first published (the Nostradamus trilogy), and the others then followed. I now know that that dark period of my life was my testing time. I was being given a chance to back out if I wanted to. A chance to have a normal life if that was what I chose. I now know that once a person makes a commitment, then there is no turning back, or the person will never find happiness. This is why I tell people to never give up on their dream. My testing time passed, the commitment was made, and now my books are translated into at least twenty languages. They have become living things. They have created a life of their own. This would never have happened if I had given up.

Over the forty years since my beginning in this field, my children and my readers have asked, Why dont you publish that first book? You know there is an interest, because people are always asking about your beginnings. So much has happened since I wrote that book in 1980, that I thought it would seem a simple and naive story, especially compared to the strides and advancements I have made since. So the manuscript languished in my filing cabinet until the beginning of 2009. I found it again when I was remodeling my house, and cleaning out my old files. As I held it in my hand, it seemed to speak to me, It is time! I gave it to my daughter, Julia, and asked her to read it and tell me what she thought. Is it too old? Is it out-of-date? Is it too simple and naive?