Dolores Cannon - Jesus and the Essenes

First American Publication 2000 Ozark Mountain Publishing 1992 Dolores Cannon Originally published by Gateway Books.

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Cannon, Dolores, 1931 - 2014
Jesus and the Essenes by Dolores Cannon Eyewitness accounts of the missing years of Jesus, the portions that have been removed from the Bible, and the community of the Essenes at Qumran. The information was gained through regressive hypnosis, conducted by Dolores Cannon. Includes Bibliography and Index.
I. Jesus. 2. Essenes. 3. Dead Sea Scrolls. 4. Hypnosis. 5. Reincarnation.
I. Cannon, Dolores, 1931- II. Essenes. III. Title.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-076754 ISBN: 1-886940-08-8

Cover Painting: Jan Styka

The picture on the cover is a detail from the gigantic (195 ft.x45 ft.) painting, The Crucifixion, by the noted Polish artist. Jan Styka. It was painted in Poland in 1894 and was acquired by Dr. Hubert Eaton in the 1940's for Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. California, where it is permanently on exhibition. In 1955, Leila Sherman was given special permission to photograph the detail of the figure of Jesus from a balcony opposite the painting, (at a distance of approx. 75 ft. with a telephoto lens). Forest Lawn gave Miss Sherman sole rights to the publishing and distribution of her picture. Miss Sherman has given us the permission to share with the world this practically unknown portrayal of Jesus by a great artist. The use of this photograph does not constitute an endorsement by Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Cover Design: Lawrence Levy. Drawing Board Studios Book set in 10 2on 12': Bembo, by Ann Buchan (Typesetters), Middlesex, United Kingdom

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Who am I to think that I dare to write a book which will upset or at least shake the foundation of the beliefs of many, Jew and Christian alike? I respect beliefs. Man must believe in something, even if he believes there is nothing.

This is the story of a people who dedicated their lives to the protection and preservation of knowledge. I can relate to that. To me the destruction of knowledge is a very terrible thing. These people seem to have passed the proverbial torch to me through the aeons of space and time. This information was not given to me to lie gathering dust on a shelf. It was meant to be revealed once again to others hungry for knowledge. It is as though the Essenes almost speak in whispers in my ears. "Write", they say to me, "the knowledge has been hidden too long. Write, do not let the knowledge be lost again". So, I feel I must pass along what I have learned. If this upsets some, I hope it is understood that I am not setting out to do so. If it makes some think, this is my intention.

I cannot claim that what I have presented in this book is the absolute truth, facts beyond dispute. I don't know, and I doubt seriously whether anyone alive has the answers. But maybe, for the first time, break loose from the mold that has held you prisoner since childhood. Open the windows of your mind and allow curiosity and the quest for knowledge to enter like a fresh spring breeze and sweep away the cobwebs of complacency. Dare to think the unthinkable. Dare to question the unquestionable. Dare to consider different concepts of life and death. And your Soul, your eternal 'Self, will be all the richer for it.

It is possible to travel through time and space and visit long lost civilisations. It is possible to speak with those long dead and relive again with them their lives and their deaths. It is possible to travel backwards hundreds, even thousands of years to explore the past. I know, because I have done itnot once, but hundreds of times.

I have done it with regressive hypnosis. This is a technique or method that allows people to remember and often relive their past lives. The idea that we live not once but many times is called reincarnation. This should not be confused with 'transmigration', which is the mistaken belief that man may be reborn as an animal. According to my research this does not happen. When the soul of man incarnates it will always inhabit a human body. He may, unfortunately, sink so low as to become animalistic in nature, but he will never take the form of an animal. This is an entirely different type of spirit.

I don't know why some people find the idea of reincarnation so hard to understand, when they can relate it to their own lives. Everyone is constantly changing. Not to change would mean you have stopped growing. At that point you become stagnant and start to die. We change so much that many times we may feel as though we have lived many different lives in this one. We go to school, marry, have children, sometimes marry again. We may change occupations, sometimes going in an entirely different direction. We may travel or live in a foreign country for a while. We may experience trauma and sorrow with the death or unhappiness of loved ones. We hopefully learn to love and attain our goals in life. Each of these are stages in our lives and they are totally different from the other. We make mistakes and hopefully learn from them. We hear people say, "I don't know how I could have done such dumb things when I was younger. It's almost as though it happened to someone else".

I know I could never return to the young teenager in high school that I once was. I would not even be able to relate to her, so naive and shy. We would not have anything in common now. And she would have never been able to understand the complex person I have become. Yet we are one and the same person.

This is the way I look upon past lives. We know we lived them, just as we know we lived our childhood. They could be called the childhood of the soul. Hopefully we have learned to apply the knowledge we have gained through hundreds of years of making mistakes, of being human. But just as there are people who take longer to grow up, there are also people who must live many lives before learning even one lesson.

We can look upon our own bodies as a form of reincarnation. We know our bodies are ever changing. Cells are constantly dying and being renewed in a never-ending cycle. We certainly don't have the same body we had ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. It has changed for better or worse.

We can see reincarnation as a school for the soul, a series of lessons and grades to be learned for our education and growth. Then we can stop cursing the bad times that often befall us and learn to think of them as tests and exams which we must pass or fail. We can't change what has happened to us in this life or in others. We can only learn from it and go forward, letting the past guide and teach us.