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Keepers Of The Garden

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A young man wanting to explore past-life regression discovers this is his first lifetime on Earth. All his other existences were on alien worlds and in other dimensions. As this unique case is explored further, he finds out that his association with extraterrestrials did not cease with these other lives. The interaction with UFOs and aliens has continued during all his present life, although the information was protectively hidden by his subconscious. This strang case reveals the motives behind present-day involvement between UFOs and humans, and the hopes and expectations of our creators for their garden.We are the Garden --- The gardeners are extraterrestrials from other worlds

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First published January 1, 1993

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Dolores Cannon

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Dolores Cannon (1931 - 2014) was a self described "past-life regressionist" and hypnotherapist who specialized in the "recovery and cataloging" of "Lost Knowledge". Her roots in hypnosis went back to the 1960s, and she was specializing in past-life therapy since 1979.

Dolores became, perhaps, the world's most unlikely expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus. A retired Navy wife from Huntsville, AR, USA, Dolores was nearly fifty years old when she began experimenting with hypnosis and past-life regression. The results were, to say the least, quite spectacular!

Working through several different subjects, Dolores was able to establish communication with the living Michel De Notredame, better known as the prophet Nostradamus. His revelations and their impact on our own time are both fascinating and at times frightening.

Dolores has written the three volume set "Conversations With Nostradamus", the series on the translation of Nostradamus' quatrains. This series contains the translation of almost 1000 prophecies, all interpreted for the first time and have been in print since 1989. It is considered the most accurate interpretation of the prophecies ever printed.

Dolores has been a UFO investigator for twenty years, using her skills as a regressionist to help people that had been involved in abduction cases. She has written several books on the UFO information volunteers have revealed while under hypnosis.

Her unique technique of hypnosis is being taught all over the world via the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy.

Dolores has written 17 books about her research in hypnosis and UFO cases. Her books are translated into over 20 languages. She founded her own publishing company, Ozark Mountain Publishing, in 1992.

Dolores has toured in the USA, England, Europe, the former Soviet bloc countries, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia to promote her works, and to discuss her particular brand of psychic research. She has spoken to radio and television audiences worldwide. She has given lectures at such locations as: Whole Life Expos in Los Angeles, New York and San Diego; Global Science Congress; various A.R.E. Edgar Cayce Foundations; Conscious Living Expo and MBS Expo in Australia; The College of Psychic Studies in London, England; The Theosophical Society in London, England; as well as many other organizations. Dolores was the first American and the first foreigner to receive the "Orpheus Award" in Bulgaria, for the highest advancement in the research of psychic phenomena.

Articles by/about Dolores have appeared in several magazines including: "Body, Mind and Spirit"; "Magical Blend"; "Connecting Link"; "Kindred Spirit" (an England magazine); "People Magazine" (an Australian magazine); "Conscious Living Magazine" (an Australian magazine); "After Dark" (the Art Bell magazine); "The Unknown Magazine"; "The Washington Post"; and "New York Times". Also magazines and newspapers in Russia, Spain, South America, Bulgaria, Japan and Arab countries.

Dolores appeared on various TV specials including "A Current Affair" (in Australia); BBC Documentary Series "Divine Magic"; "Ancient Mysteries of the World" (a two hour special on CBS); "Ancient Prophecies I and Ancient Prophecies II" (two hour specials on NBC); "Encounters" ( a one hour special on FOX network); "Good Day LA" (in California); "Mysteries, Magic and Miracles" (the Sci-Fi Channel); "Marilu Talk Show" (ABC); "Biography" (series on A&E Channel); "America After Hours" (CNBC); "CNN International Entertainment News".

She has spoken on over 1000 radio shows including Art Bell’s Dreamland, George Noory’s Coast to Coast, and Shirley MacLaine, plus speaking at innumerable conferences worldwide. In addition she had her own weekly radio show, the Metaphysical Hour, on BBS Radio for nine years.

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5 reviews12 followers
March 8, 2010
I have several books by Delores Cannon, and I enjoy her work. To me it feels a privilege to have such insight shared with you, and at the very least they are always thought provoking and expand the consciousness. Here as with most, if not all of Cannon's work, the book details information received through hypnotically regressed individuals via either subconscious recall or 'channelled' sources. This is understandably unacceptable as scientific evidence or proof, and therefore the reader has to adopt a cautious open mind regarding the content.

Not withstanding this important caveat, viewed with an inquisitive and open mind, the information contained in this book offers a coherent and plausible position. There is some unexpected and thought-provoking statements posed by the 'beings', offering their take on 'reality', evolution and the Universal philosophy. When examining that which is offered, or indeed in some instances with held, the fantastic story does appear to work on several levels (some background knowledge to regression, reincarnation and alternative spiritiual belief will help being thrown straight into the deep end! - I would recommend Delores Cannon's 'Between Life and Death', 'Convoluted Universe' or Michael Newtons 'Journey of Souls').

If you are new to this subject matter (more spiritual than ET), or if you have a narrow or rigid world view this subject will be easily dismissed, but the questions and answers within the book compliment other works out there and it does not dismiss religion or Gods but embraces it all within a single, unimaginably complex Universal story. By just looking to the heavens at night, or considering astrology or astro-physics, the actuality of whats out there blows the mind, so why is this story so fantastic after all? In having to rely on instinct, the revelations feel righteous and plausible, and personally I believe scientific discovery will eventually unify religion and science in a way that today we cannot comprehend - after all the more we discover the less we realise we actually know.
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1,698 reviews1 follower
September 3, 2013
I'm glad I found this one; I feel it was a long time in coming.
Quote from page 45: "The truth is what you make it. As you desire to know more, seek it and it will present itself: in dreams, in happenings in your life, in people you meet."

Fabulous book; I loved it.
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319 reviews70 followers
January 1, 2017
I thought this book would be entertaining and unique but instead I found it to be repetitious which is a sin I cannot abide. The author could have done so much more with these stories. What a disappointment!
Profile Image for Julie  Young Buckler .
111 reviews91 followers
March 29, 2025
Past Lives Explained

This is the first time reading a past life regression that was not entirely earthbound. The concept seems new and familiar, all at once.

Loved the story and the way it is written. Fortunately, there are many more books from this author and my reading shall continue! This subject matter seems amazingly more natural than you might think.
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833 reviews277 followers
December 10, 2011
This book presents the usual fantastic new information as is found in the other books by Dolores Cannon.

For some reason I found this one slightly less readable than her others, perhaps because it didn’t contain much other text than the interviews with the subject, Phil, these being filled with compact high-level information; the material thus seemed a little dry.

It turned out that Phil had had no previous lives on Earth, and therefore Dolores’ experience with him was a first for her. She had previously uncovered in him what appeared to be previous Earth lives, but these turned out to be “imprints” – “past lives” borrowed from other people and impressed on the subconscious memory of those who are living their first life on Earth; without these false “memories” these people would feel completely lost and have difficulty in functioning on Earth.

Phil tells us about other planets much differing from ours. These include one containing a fourth-dimensional city with beings who are just pure energy.

He keeps reverting to a scene where he sees three spires, which causes him to become extremely moved, since he knows this place is his true home.

Phil is able to enter into deep trance and his “subconscious” has access to all information, though access is in some cases denied.

We are provided with information about the “seeding” of the Earth. Cells were brought from other planets and “planted” in the “garden” of Earth. However, at one point a meteor collides with Earth bringing with it a “disfiguring” virus which became the cause of all disease on Earth; the original design for Earth had been that no disease should exist.

As regards the Moon, we are told that it “was ripped from the Earth during a collision with a wandering star”. It never contained life, since it never had an atmosphere.

Later, Phil is ready to access a repressed event that occurred when his car is stopped in the middle of the highway, and he is “taken” by small grey creatures acting a lot like children, who kept touching him while constantly radiating love. Inside their ship they take a sample from him after removing his consciousness and placing it in a jar! There is a mystery about a box in their possession which belonged to him and which contained a secret which would be revealed to him if he could remember how to open the box. This eventually happens.

It turned out Phil had had contact with these greys since he was a child.

I found the latter part of the book more readable than the beginning, though the book as a whole is filled with exceedingly interesting information.

In conclusion, the book lives up to the usual high standard of Dolores’ books and is filled with new, intriguing information, though it is not my favourite by this author. But read this one too!
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108 reviews4 followers
October 5, 2017
Another great book by Dolores Cannon a hypnotherapist who regresses her clients to prior lives. Sometimes these prior lives are on planets other than Earth. One of her clients worked on the "Planet of the Three Spires" where all knowledge is collected. She had this client frequently return to his planet and access its information. From this "library" she learned the entire history of the human race on the planet earth.

From the earliest times, ET races have come to Earth to "tend the garden". These advanced races are extremely skilled in their ability to manipulate DNA and accelerate what we would call "natural evolution". Although evolution does occur through natural selection as Darwin thought, other traits have been brought to Earth from elsewhere in the Cosmos. Since the ET’s have a mandate to promote consciousness throughout the universes they have made critical changes to the DNA of the common ancestor of Man and Ape. These tweaks to our DNA rapidly increased our brain size and our intelligence so that civilization could begin.

The ET’s then came and walked among us as "gods, teachers, and guides" as described in the prehistory of all our civilizations and taught language, agriculture, astronomy, and other skills to the early man.

Once a gift is given, the ET’s cannot tell us how to use it. To control our cultural evolution would interfere with the Universal Law of Free Will. A gift can be given and it is up to man how that gift will be used. Only in the most extreme case (e.g. total destruction of the planet) would the ET’s interfere with our use of their gifts.

This information is consistent with the Law of One material channeled in the 1980’s by L&L research.

Basically, this is the ultimate case of Reality being stranger than fiction. Be prepared to have all your belief systems challenged by this new information. For me, it has been a wild ride. Start reading Dolores Cannon’s books and discover it for yourself. It could change your life.
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27 reviews
May 5, 2022
I really appreciate the effort the author has done in her book. My only problem is that she seems to believe everything the vehicle "Mr. Phil" is reporting about the aliens or the star people. How can she trust everything they are saying! What is the source of this information ? It may very well be evil and misguiding.

In the closing paragraph of her book, she says "we must simply try to incorporate the beliefs and aims of the star people into our lives and help them save our planet. Yes, the aliens are here. Thank God they are here, for without them we are lost!"

The aliens claim that they seeded life on Earth, and that the abductions of humans are for seeding life on either other planets, or another planet which will be an alternative to Earth when Earth can no longer sustain life if a nuclear war erupts.

As far as I know, the abduction phenomenon never happens to a person who is a real Christian, and even if it happens, it stops immediately once the person calls upon the name of Jesus Christ. The beings simply retreat and disappear. Isn't this a sufficient evidence that these beings are evil!

Aslo the author is asking the aliens whether they will physically transport the survivors of the nuclear war to another planet in their space ships! Well, is this the "Rapture" the bible talks about? I don't think so. According to the Bible, the Lord (not the aliens) will take the good people to Him at the end of days to save them from the seven-year period of "tribulation".

In spite of this, the book was fun to read, but it requires a very broad mind to assimilate everything mentioned in it.
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1,017 reviews15 followers
April 22, 2010
Read about a third of it and then skimmed the rest. I did enjoy the bits I read ... interesting fodder for the mind.
21 reviews11 followers
August 22, 2017
I really enjoyed this book, but it left me wanting more information. I guess that's a good thing...So I will read more from this author.
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650 reviews30 followers
March 10, 2025
"Anything we can’t understand, we naturally fear."

"The cosmos is populated much more than the common person has any inkling of or any idea about."

"The continent of Atlantis on this Earth was destroyed by a crystal. That should give you an idea of the power that is available."

"Time is not something which can be traveled through. Time, actually, does not exist. Time is a concept; time is not an existing material or function."

"The truth is what you make it. This concept of simultaneous time has always bothered me because it is so difficult to comprehend."

"This planet was placed here in isolation for its own progression. Your world evolution is such that it was necessary for this planet to be isolated for the lessons to be learned."
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42 reviews
March 21, 2021
Was an interesting listen, I really enjoyed the material covered, would only recommend reading this if you have an open mind to different possibilities re. life and God. The way it was written could have been more refined and the material she explored had so much potential for more. But I still enjoyed it.
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167 reviews19 followers
June 8, 2022
I love how thought provoking and conscious expanding Keepers of the Garden is. While it may not be for all, all should try it.
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3 reviews
August 21, 2024
Another great one from Delores. This is an earlier work from her regressions from the 80s and released in the 90s but is more in line with later books like the convoluted series. If your into aliens and esoteric knowledge and wondering about what else in life might there possibly be besides Earth than you won’t be disappointed!
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48 reviews2 followers
July 7, 2025
**audiobook**

No los estoy leyendo en orden entonces hay varias cosas que se repiten
Pero me encantó poder disfrutarlo en audiobook 💖 siento q es el formato perfecto para estos libros ya que son tipo entrevista, es como escuchar un podcast
Siempre es genial escuchar a dolores 💖 seguiré leyendo sus libros en versión audio
33 reviews1 follower
August 7, 2025
I love Dolores Cannon books without a doubt. I can pick up any of them, start reading from anywhere, and instantly get pulled in, haha.

Dolores explores her session with Phil, whose experience takes place in another world rather than a past life on Earth. This was a first such session for Dolores. Having read the Convoluted series already, this book is not one of my favourite from the author, BUT still, definitely worth reading!!
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125 reviews
October 25, 2022
I like to think I keep an open mind, but try as I might, I couldn’t take this book seriously.
But let this be my statement to all aliens among us who might read this, when the mothership comes to take us to New Earth, I’m on it! (Why do I keep seeing the finale of Don’t Look Up! when I imagine it?!)
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7 reviews
July 28, 2018
I really enjoyed this book on the most part, a ton of unique and interesting stories for sure. This review does contain spoilers!

However I found towards the end of the book a very elitist strange tone manifested within the script. There was talk of a new planet created which would need seeding, that the beings 'in charge of populating' the world only wanted 'pure' people, no crippled or 'defect' DNA please.

This attitude really threw me for a loop. What kind of loving benevolent beings would show such a lack of empathy, would they not want to perhaps work on healing those who need healing? Excluding people because they are not deemed 'genetically perfect' sounds a lot like a certain German Dictator. This sort of commentary is what created so much skepticism for me regarding the intentions of the species she spoke to through (was it Alan?) her subject. I felt a little concerned to say the least.

Honestly I enjoy Dolores's work, I feel her to be an honest dedicated light worker, however the beings she spoke with are what left me concerned.

I would definitely recommend reading any of her works, including this one, as they all have value for truth seekers and light workers alike or even for people who are just interested in learning more about other races out there in our vast Multiverse!

Sorry for the critical comments, I just wondered if others perhaps saw this as a bit odd as well?

Much peace.
Denise.

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230 reviews2 followers
December 4, 2019
No es un libro cuya temática llame mi atención, pero me pidieron lo leyera y decidí hacerlo.
En mi opinión, el libro está lleno de ideas ya expuestas por diversos contactados o grupos dedicados a los O.V.N.I , es decir, los extraterrestres fueron en quienes dieron inicio a la evolución humana, visitan o viven en la Tierra, guían a la humanidad y esperan nuestro siguiente paso de esta en sus capacidades físicas y psíquicas. Añadiendo casi al final de que el “sujeto” aparte de su alma sea extraterrestre, en diversos puntos de su vida fue y lo escribo como popularmente se denomina a esta acción, abducido, eso sí, esto curiosamente lo recordó tras leer un popular libro dedicado al tema. Cómo última parte, digamos que “sujeto” pasó la prueba y poderes psíquicos/cambio de conciencia vuelven a él.

Me considero de mente abierta, pero todas esas ideas salpicadas de contradicciones, clichés, datos erróneos en materia de historia mexicana y paleontología (temas que me agradan), así como momentos WTF y otros sacados de novelas de ciencia ficción me da a pensar que todo lo expuesto en este libro no es apegado a la verdad, ya sea “sujeto” se lo invento todo y la autora peco de ingenua, o la autora escribió sus ideas en forma de transcripción de unas serie de supuestas sesiones hipnóticas llevada a cabo por ella hacia “sujeto”.

A continuación algunas de las cosas que recuerdo me hicieron pensar, “….??”



Soy partidaria a la idea de que existen otras civilizaciones allá afuera, y que algunas han estado, llegan o llegaran a esta tierra nuestra. Pero no interactúan de la forma que es expuesta en este libro pues al comprobar como nos tratamos entre nosotros, animales, plantas y al planeta en general como que muchas ganas de hacer contacto como que no.

Sé existe lo que comúnmente se le denomina alma, tal vez no sea exactamente como la religión la describe, pero hay algo dentro de nosotros de dicha naturaleza.

Pero la mezcolanza que se expone en este libro de estos dos y otros temas sencillamente no le veo sentido.

“For the human psyche has very little tolerance for that which is not of its understanding.”
Lo único cierto, para mí, en todo esto.
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51 reviews9 followers
October 6, 2012
This book was one of my first and FAVORITE Dolores Cannon books,

the memory of the one man going ahead in time mining (?)

on another planet was interesting, description and explanation of

spires another, this book (like most of her books) was really

hopeful to me. As seeing myself as more of a spiritualist than the

religious type this book really spoke to me. I'd even go so far as

to categorize it as such rather than just a 'UFO' book. It's not.

Unfortunately, I turned it into a local bookstore for credits

believing this book could be valuable to others, then regretted the

decision feeling I should of held on to it! Go back, the book was gone, I went to Borders to order it and they couldn't order it because they said it was out of print! I will find me another.
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3,611 reviews19 followers
January 13, 2021
Well...I did not enjoy that at all. And let me be clear...the one star has nothing to do with the ideas presented in this book...it has everything to do with the fact that I got zero enjoyment out of this book due to the writing style and the narration of the audiobook (though in fairness I have don't have issues with the narrator per se...it was just such dry writing that I don't know that you could have done anything else with it). Not one idea in this book is new to me...I have encountered these ideas in many other places, much better done. If this was a college lecture...it would have been mildly interesting...but as a book it was just (for me) complete garbage and I did not enjoy it at all.
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191 reviews12 followers
January 5, 2021
I've never read a book like this before. This is my first by Dolores & I ordered The Essenes by her to read next. I have no idea how to give a book like this a review. In reading others reviews, I will say I felt anxious at times & then calm by the end of the book. Chpt 19 was my favorite chpt & I have no one I can share this with. It was repetitive sometimes but stimulating, as this kind of information is new to me. I look forward to discovering more.
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1,260 reviews
March 14, 2014
If you give this kind of material, give this book a whirl. It is about souls who have lived on other planets who are now incarnating on Earth. Much of this was hard to understand but also made sense. There are people who will call material in here "bunk." Maybe so but keep an open mind if you choose to read this book
Profile Image for Kira.
6 reviews
July 5, 2011
This book was amazing simply for the fact that the information in the book is awesomely mind blowing and gives you a lot to think about. The writing styles however is horribly dry and uninteresting. If you can make it to the middle of the book the rest will be very rewarding!
2 reviews1 follower
October 28, 2018
Must read

Depending on your perspective this is a very uplifting and hopeful information. It can be very sad as well, we still don’t not know if we are going to grow and have a chance to reach the point where we are ripe for the culling.
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26 reviews5 followers
July 30, 2012
I love Dolores's work.. I have read several of her books now this one is definitely one of my fa's I am currently reading another of hers and will rate it when I finish.
38 reviews3 followers
November 26, 2015
Awe inspiring, so much information is revealed

The story unfolds birthday by bit, just as for the subject. We learn as he learns his own life. I highly recommend it.
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July 17, 2020
I barely finish any books but this was such a great read that I literally swallowed the book in a short time. I learned so much, opened my mind and the story would connect/resonate so much to me.
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