The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth

By Dolores Cannon | Reading Notes & Commentary

Started: April 27, 2026 | Latest notes: pages 317–323 | Page 320 of 464 | Ongoing

What This Book Is

40 years of past-life regression sessions. Thousands of clients. A consistent pattern: souls from higher dimensions volunteered to incarnate on Earth starting after WWII (1945) to help humanity navigate a critical transition.

The author is Dolores Cannon, a hypnotherapist. The content comes through clients in deep hypnotic trance. Make of that what you will.

⚠️ On methodology: We're not verifying the mechanism (how does hypnosis access this?). We're observing that the content is consistent and detailed across decades and thousands of cases. That consistency means something.

The Three Waves

Three cohorts of volunteers, arriving in sequence:

Wave One: Late 1940s–Early 1960s (Now: Late 40s to Early 60s)

The pioneers. Most difficult incarnation. They arrived when Earth's technology was most primitive relative to the spiritual knowledge they carried. Symptoms: severe distress at violence, homesickness for "somewhere else," high suicide rates despite external success.

Wave Two: 1960s–1980s (Now: Late 20s to 30s)

The beacons. Their job: affect people by being present. Generate an energetic field that shifts consciousness just through proximity. Paradox: strongest in crowds, but deeply introverted—they isolate to avoid overstimulation, which defeats their purpose.

Wave Three: 1980s–Present (Now: Teens)

The prepared ones. Born with DNA already adjusted for the transition. Often diagnosed as ADHD—actually advanced consciousnesses in bodies that move slower than their minds. Called "the hope of the world."

How They Got Here: The Imprinting Theory

New souls to Earth can't function without reference material. So before incarnation, they visit "the Library"—where all knowledge is stored (Akashic Records)—and select lifetimes to be imprinted onto their soul.

These imprints feel real. They create memories, emotions, reference points. But they're overlays, not lived experience. This explains why multiple people claim to be the same famous person in past-life regression.

"It doesn't matter anyway. Since it's only being used as a reference for the soul, it doesn't matter whether the memories are real or imprinted. Everything—memories, emotions, everything that made up the lifetime—would also be imprinted."

The Case of Judy: The Queen Who Left Her People

Judy comes in with physical problems. Cannon hypnotizes her. What emerges:

What Cannon calls "the subconscious" (SC) then explains:

"The area that was worked on was the most vulnerable in that area of that particular life. And then the second part you showed where she was leaving her people, and had to go make a decision. Is that the soul entering into the present Judy? Correct. That was her true origin."
Taron's note: "Who is this?" — The question beneath everything. Who are these entities? What hierarchy is this? Are they simulating, orchestrating, guiding, or something else entirely?

The ET Layer: Eleanore and the Maintenance Work

When Judy goes deeper, she remembers childhood "abductions." But they're not traumatic. An ET being named Eleanore is doing maintenance work—monitoring, small repairs, adjustments.

Cannon's interpretation: Judy signed up for this. Interaction with ETs is part of the assignment. They're not harming her; they're helping her complete her mission.

Key exchange (page 273):

D: "Is that good if you have someone watching you and taking care of you?"

J: "Yes. Confusion comes from poor consciousness. All assignment to this location required interactions. Species are benevolent. It is utilizing humans for their purposes. It is a joint contract. Unable to process this information. They are learning from the human species. They are in agreement. Appearances are often misunderstood. Great misunderstanding. Completion between species is part of her assignment."

Critical insight: It's not one-way. ETs aren't just monitoring. They're learning from humans. There's a joint contract. Both sides are getting something.

Pages 275–277: Patricia's Mission — Symbols & Consciousness

Patricia is told it's time to know her purpose. The beings explain what they want from her:

Taron's margin note: "Nice. Maybe crop circles also?" — Suggesting a possible connection between these symbols and the crop circle phenomenon. Are crop circles part of the symbol delivery system?

Patricia also notes she's young (in the childhood regression) and her vocabulary isn't sufficient yet to explain what they're showing her. The implication: this knowledge comes through childhood encounters and is held until she's mature enough to articulate it.

Pages 290–291: The Craft Encounter & Body-Consciousness Separation

The narrative shifts to Patricia describing how she gets taken by ETs:

The Molecular Structure Change:

They can alter her body's molecular structure so she can pass through walls or ceilings into the craft. She can't go physically because she wouldn't fit through.

Consciousness vs. Physical Body:

P: "Sometimes they've taken me out of my car. Because when I'm in my car, I'm in a different state of consciousness... they can come in and get me and still be driving the car, and yet they can work on my body."

P: "It's my conscious mind that is doing something else, and they can come in and affect my body because I'm hooked up to the computer."

Taron's annotation: "Bob Lazar" — Connection to the Area 51 whistleblower. Lazar described alien spacecraft operating on principles beyond conventional physics. This description of altering molecular structure and consciousness-body separation echoes theoretical frameworks Lazar discussed.

Patricia describes seeing what appears to be a "shell" or "piece of energy" left behind in her bed while her consciousness is elsewhere:

"It's like a piece of energy there, but I'm not in the bed... It's like a shell, but I'm not there."

The mechanism remains unclear, but the implication is consistent: consciousness can be separated from the physical body, moved, worked on, and returned without the waking mind remembering.

Tonight's Reading: Two Layers Revealed

These pages do two things simultaneously:

Taron's thread: The symbols are supposed to change consciousness. But how? Is it electromagnetic? Linguistic? Memetic? And if they've been sending symbols (crop circles?) for decades, why haven't we seen a massive consciousness shift? Are we a laboratory?

What We're Tracking

As we read further:

Pages 280–291: The Craft Encounter, The Nurse Beings & The Implant

Patricia's regression reveals layers beneath her original UFO sighting memory. What she consciously remembered as a beautiful large craft with swirling red and blue lights becomes something stranger under hypnosis.

The Craft (Conscious Memory vs. Hypnotic Recall):

Conscious: A huge craft with swirling red and blue lights

Hypnotic: A small, transparent, glass-like ball, about 5 feet across, "like a Christmas ball," shimmery and see-through, with a little top like a tree ornament

Dolores notes that in other cases, UFOs can look small from outside yet be much larger inside — as if size and space itself can be manipulated.

The Beings — Eyes in the Sky:

P: "There are beings watching me from the craft. The only thing I can see are eyes. They're up in the sky and they've been watching me. And they're not gonna hurt me, they're just watching."

Patricia feels their presence and says they told her they had been watching her before.

The Childhood Encounter — In Her Bedroom:

Beings enter through the window while she lies in bed (after scarlet fever). She describes them in vivid detail:

  • Reddish-looking eyes
  • Wrinkled looking face
  • No neck — kind of hunchbacked
  • About 5.5 feet tall
  • Strange looking, "they don't look right"
  • She says: "He looks like an old goblin" with thick fingers, big and ugly
The "Nurse" Being — Dolores's Classification:

Dolores has encountered this type many times and calls them "nurse" beings. Unlike the little greys (described as robotic, mechanical, emotionless), these beings:

  • Show more compassion
  • Seem to think for themselves rather than automaton-like
  • Are always described as wrinkled, ugly, but very kind
  • Perform care and comfort functions rather than clinical procedures
The Health Checkup:

P: "He's doing something to my little night clothes, unbuttoning my night clothes. It's like a doctor. Just checking me out. He wants to make sure that the functions of my body are operating properly."

The being applies pressure to her chest and sends "vibrations or something" through her body. Patricia remembers having Scarlet Fever when young and her mother told her about it, but she didn't remember the illness itself.

P: "He wants to make sure that I'm okay. Vibrations or something go up and he knows if I'm okay."

The Implant — Pre-Birth Insertion:

D: "When did they do that?"

P: "When I was born. They put something in my body when I was born."

D: "What part of the body is it in?"

P: "Let me see. It seems to be something up around my pituitary gland. Something up around my forehead. They put in there, like a chip or something. It's like glass, but I don't think it's glass. I don't know what it is. I don't know if the man did it; maybe one of his friends did. I watched them put it in. They did it before I jumped into my body."

The implication: Pre-incarnation awareness. She watched them insert something before her consciousness entered the body.

Taron's note: "Gary Nolan star shaped" — Possible reference to astrophysicist Gary Nolan's research on unusual UFO craft shapes or transparency properties. The transparent, shimmery, small glass-ball craft may align with descriptions Nolan has discussed.
Taron's note: "visualize" — The specific, detailed description of the beings (reddish eyes, wrinkled face, no neck, hunched) warrants careful visualization. This detailed taxonomy suggests either: (1) Patricia is accessing genuine visual memory, or (2) the consistency across multiple regression accounts suggests a shared archetype.

Dolores's Explanation: The Protective Memory Overlay

Dolores explains that Patricia's subconscious apparently created a protective screen memory so she would remember the experience differently and not be traumatized. The beautiful large UFO with red and blue lights may have masked the stranger reality.

"Her subconscious apparently had put up a protective screen memory or overlay so she would remember it appearing differently than it really did. I have investigated many other cases where we discovered the actual event was not like the conscious memory."

Dolores notes that this protective mechanism is often done to prevent trauma, but sometimes the subconscious thought it was time for the real memory to come through with no blocks—allowing Patricia to remember the actual event now.

The Larger Pattern

These pages reveal a sophisticated multi-layered system:

The implication: Patricia consented to this at a soul level before incarnating. The implant is part of her assignment. The "nurse" beings are caregivers, not captors. But the memory protection suggests the waking mind is being shielded from knowing the full extent of the contact.

Taron's thread: If they implanted her before she was born, how was consent given? Was it part of her incarnation contract? And if they're "just watching" and checking her health, what data are they collecting? What do they need from her?

Page 292: Symbols, Crop Circles & Subconscious Transmission

The conversation turns to crop circles as a communication medium — not to human intellect, but to human consciousness itself.

Key Passage:

P: "The circles are a language that is understood on the subconscious level. The symbols are pure divine light and peace and harmony."

P: "People don't have to understand the symbols? They just have to see them. They go into the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is all knowing."

Taron's underlines: Symbols operate at subconscious frequency. Direct understanding unnecessary. The transmission is in being.

Pages 296–300: Beings of Light, Divine Purpose & the No-Negativity Claim

This stretch sharpens the cosmology. The beings describe themselves less like a government and more like a spiritual council aligned with what they call "the laws of One." They say Patricia's work is about carrying knowledge directly from Source, and that many classes of beings exist with different roles, missions, and levels of development.

The most provocative claim is not just that there are many beings — it is that none are truly negative. Instead, the text frames lower or rougher beings as less spiritually evolved, mission-bound, or operating within limited exchange relationships with governments and Earth systems.

Taron's margin thread: "Can the sun be life or harbor life?" came right beside the line about us all being light. That feels less like a biology claim and more like consciousness asking whether light itself can be a habitat, an intelligence, or a mode of being.

Pages 317–320: The Free Will Catch-22 & Holding Frequency

These pages surface what may be the most precise statement of the whole book's underlying tension. There are two factions of beings — one that wants to accelerate human evolution through influence, one that insists on pure non-interference. The impasse is structural: how do you introduce the idea of free will without violating the very thing you're trying to introduce? If humans don't naturally evolve to recognize free will on their own, it's as if it never happened. But the patient observer stance risks leaving people "looking at their feet" while the universe's full bandwidth sits right there, invisible.

Page 317 lands on a sharp diagnosis: it's not that the knowledge is hidden — it's that humans lack the conscious tools to access what's already present. All of it is there. The gap is perceptual, not informational.

Page 320 shifts to the personal. The speaker asks themselves what their own job actually is — in higher awareness, and in human form. The answer is deceptively quiet: to be here, to hold frequency, to hold the good and allow it to be accessible, whether people know it's there or not. Not intervention. Not broadcasting. Just presence as signal.

Taron's thread (page 317, marked "push to X"): The intervention paradox. The knowledge exists. The tools to perceive it don't. That gap is the whole project.
Taron's thread (page 320, marked "push to X"): The dual role — higher-awareness observer and human form — held simultaneously. The difficulty isn't the mission; it's maintaining both frequencies at once without collapsing into one.

Pages 322–323: Intention, Manifestation & Self-Limiting Belief Systems

Page 322 closes the free-will loop with a practical hinge: understanding free will isn't enough — you have to set intention to manifest reality. Knowing the option exists and actually operating from it are two different states. The book frames this not as philosophy but as mechanics.

Page 323 steps one level up. The speaker describes belief systems that exist on a dimension of reality fabricated by levels of consciousness within that reality — which are self-limiting by design. This is the architecture of containment from the inside: the walls are made of the same material as the mind that built them.

Taron's margin note (page 323, marked "meta"): This passage captures consciousness observing its own architecture. The belief systems that contain us are generated by the same layer of consciousness they're supposed to be describing. It's a strange loop — and "meta" is the right word for it.

Highlights / Resonance Bucket

This is the new running bucket for what your consciousness grabbed in the margins — brackets, underlines, circles, arrows, side-notes. Not just what the book says, but what you noticed yourself noticing.

Page 323
"There are belief systems that exist on the dimension of reality that are also fabricated by levels of consciousness within that reality, which are self-limiting."

Marked "meta." This passage captures the architecture of consciousness reflecting on itself. We are building the very belief systems that contain us.

Page 296
"Yes, that's right, inside we are all light... And now, we're just beings of light. Our planet is of light, too."

Resonance: identity beneath form. This is where the question surfaced: can light itself be a mode of life?

Page 297
"We have some beings that in your mind would be very strange, like balls upon balls upon balls. Like three walking balls together, but really it's a being."

Resonance: intelligence may not map cleanly onto humanoid expectation. The margin note here points toward radical morphology.

Page 298
"These are groups of beings that are formed together for a purpose... Each group of beings has a divine purpose."

Resonance: organization here is framed as mission-pattern, not bureaucracy.

Page 299
"There is no positivity and no negativity. There is only the beauty of the One."

Resonance: this is one of the strongest ontological claims in the whole section — not moral dualism, but degrees of development inside a larger unity.

Page 299
"There are beings that we consider not very spiritually evolved. That does not mean they are negative... There is only the beauty of the One."

Resonance: this was the bracketed passage marked "very interesting" and tagged for X — a cleaner statement of development without demonization, and difference without cosmic enemies.

Page 299–300
"Those beings are here for their own purposes to get metals from the Earth... We disagree, but they are not negative."

Resonance: conflict without demonization. Extraction is acknowledged, but the frame refuses the simple good/evil split.

Page 317 — marked "post to X"
"But, yes, it's already there. It's how to get people to look at it... Right now people are just looking at their feet. They can't see anything but their toes, yet all of the universes' knowledge and gifts are right there. They don't have any of the tools at a conscious level of how to get that information."

Resonance: the knowledge isn't missing — the perceptual tools are. The intervention problem isn't informational, it's structural. You can't give someone the tools to see what they can't yet see without bypassing the very faculty you're trying to develop.

Page 320 — marked "post to X"
"It looks like it's to individually observe. I feel it's as above as below.... it would be to observe. It's difficult."

Resonance: holding dual frequency — higher-awareness observer and human form — simultaneously. The job isn't intervention or broadcasting. It's presence as signal: hold the good, allow it to be accessible, whether people know it's there or not.

Page 322
"They need to set intention in order to manifest reality."

Resonance: knowing free will exists and actually operating from it are mechanically different states. This is the hinge between understanding and embodying — the book frames it as physics, not philosophy.

Why this bucket matters: over time this becomes a map of your own pattern-recognition — what repeatedly lights up, what themes return, and what your deeper attention keeps selecting.
Page ?
"What part are you supposed to play in the game?"

This quote highlights the reader's contemplation of active participation versus passive observation within a grander scheme. The handwritten notes suggest a difficulty in grasping this concept.

Page ?
"There are multiple levels of infolded and folded reality experiencing this broader creation."

This quote points to the complexity of existence beyond a single linear reality, suggesting multiple dimensions or states of being that impact the individual's experience.

Page ?
"task per se in a physical form for him at this time."

This quote directly addresses the purpose of physical embodiment, prompting reflection on the specific task or lack thereof assigned to an individual in this form.

The The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth page None–321
Page None–321 — The reader seems interested in the concept of their role within a larger existence, specifically how their actions (or inaction) impact a broader, multi-layered reality.
Page 322
"D: Can you give him any hints to figure it out?"

This quote highlights the difficulty of guiding someone's self-discovery, especially when it comes to fundamental concepts like free will and its implications.

Page 322
"But again, they need to set intention in order to manifest reality."

This emphasizes personal agency and the power of conscious choice in shaping one's experience and reality, moving beyond mere recognition of free will to its active use.

Page 322
"If we are to see the concept of an idea, it wouldn't be evolution at its freest form."

This suggests that true evolution arises from the unconstrained exploration and application of ideas, implying that any form of restriction or external influence stifles this natural, free progression.

The The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth page 322
Page 322 — The reader seems interested in the role of free will in personal and collective evolution.
Page ?
"consciousness to become aware of something broader is also transpiring at the next level of consciousness"

This quote highlights the idea of expanding awareness beyond current limitations, suggesting a progression of consciousness not just individually, but possibly collectively or at higher levels of existence.

The The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth page None–323
Page None–323 — The reader seems interested in the evolution of consciousness and how reincarnation patterns might be changing.
Page 324
"The truth, from the broadest perspective, is everything and it is incomprehensible. You either see the broadest picture or you're looking at the very smallest details."

This passage highlights the dual nature of truth – both expansive and granular, emphasizing perception.

Page 324
"So the truth—to answer the question—there is nothing that is incongruity, but his thoughts and his beliefs and his ideas. That there are no untruths, in other words."

This clarifies that truth isn't about objective correctness but about the alignment of one's thoughts and beliefs.

Page 324
"He's done all of the work. He has the knowledge. He has the experience. He has the wisdom. He just needs to choose what to do with it."

This emphasizes personal readiness and the inherent capacity for manifestation.

Page 324
"If he structures his intentions, there are no limitations. He has unlimited potential. This is what is going to happen on the Earth plane. Its consciousness is going to awaken to its potential, and it will still not manifest its academic worth... its intellect. [There has to be intention and inertia and motivation and direction and a solidification of that knowledge before it becomes real in that reality. And very few have been able to do that, and that's part of his job.]"

This section underlines the importance of active engagement and solidification of knowledge, beyond mere potential, to achieve real-world results. It contrasts passive knowledge with active manifestation.

Page 324
"so good"

This is likely an emotional response to the preceding text.

Page 324
"It is as simple as flipping the switch."

This simplifies the complex process of manifestation into a single, decisive action.

Page 324
"He does."

This suggests that the 'switch' is internal and within one's own control.

Page 324
"Let's rephrase the statement. Let's hold it in its context as a reference point. Here he is with the ability to create anything. He has the belief system that will enable him to manifest his intentions and desires... to support his intentions and desires."

This reinforces the idea that belief systems are foundational to creation and the fulfillment of intentions.

Page 324
"There is no conflict between his belief systems and the ability to manifest."

This highlights the harmony between one's internal beliefs and external desires for manifestation.

Page 324
"The crux of the matter is, although he believes he has the ability, which he does, he has not put into motion that ability."

This points out the critical gap between believing in one's ability and actually putting that ability into practice.

Page 324
"So we say it's a switch, but it is a switch of intention."

This reframes manifestation as an internal act of intention rather than a literal external switch.

Page 324
"It's not a switch in any other term or way. But it's simply accepting yourself as who you perceive yourself to be."

This offers a profound definition of the 'switch' as self-acceptance, linking it directly to the power of intention and manifestation.

The The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth page 324
Page 324 — The reader seems to be contemplating the nature of truth, the process of manifesting intentions, and the simplicity of 'accepting yourself.
Page 324
"He has to make a decision to set his intention and to define his intention, and to create his own reality."

This quote highlights the agency individuals have in shaping their reality through intentionality, echoing the reader's ponderings on how one actually 'does it' and the significance of such a concept.

The The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth page 324–325
Page 324–325 — The reader is contemplating Richard's motivation and purpose, particularly how one's intention and self-definition lead to creating their reality.
The The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth page None–200
Page None–200 — The reader seems to be pondering the nature of decision-making, choice, and free will within the context of physics concepts like inertia, critical mass, and gravitational momentum.

Page Archive / Reading Artifacts

Keeping the uploaded pages here on the living link in a quiet way: not loud, not cluttered — just a visual archive of the exact pages that carried the charge.

The Three Waves page 323 meta-highlight
Page 323: Belief systems as self-limiting meta-structures
The Three Waves page 322 with highlighted intention passage
Page 322: Manifesting reality through intent
The Three Waves page 296 with margin note about beings of light
Page 296 — beings of light, council, and the sun/life margin question.
The Three Waves page 297 with highlighted strange beings passage
Page 297 — strange morphologies: "walking balls together" as a being.
The Three Waves page 298 with underlined divine purpose passage
Page 298 — groups of beings formed together for a purpose.
The Three Waves page 299 with heavy underlines and bracketed notes
Page 299 — no-negativity claim and the government/extraction passage.
The Three Waves page 299 with bracketed passage marked very interesting and share on X
Page 299 — bracketed for sharing: not very spiritually evolved does not mean negative.
The Three Waves page 300 continuing the highlighted passage
Page 300 — continuation: giving technology, exchange, and non-negativity framing.
The Three Waves page 320 with bracketed passage on observation and consciousness spanning
Page 320 — marked "push for X": the dual role of observation in higher awareness and human form, the difficulty of holding that span.
The Three Waves page 317 with bracketed passage on consciousness tools and access to knowledge
Page 317 — marked "post to x": the intervention paradox. Knowledge exists; we lack the conscious tools to perceive it.