Dolores Eilene Cannon (April 15, 1931 – October 18, 2014) was an American author, self-trained hypnotherapist, and publisher.

[4] 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.

[6] She created what she called the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) which she believed allowed her to communicate with the client's subconscious.

[12] 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".

[16][14] Alex Heard, reviewer for the Post, described Cannon as a millennialist who "views current events through blood-colored glasses".

[17] 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.

[24] In November 1991, she spoke at the world's largest holistic exposition, the New Age Whole Life Expo in Los Angeles, California.

[24] Also in 1992, she toured Israel, England, and Europe where she presented lectures in conjunction with the release of her book Jesus and the Essenes.

[10] She also established the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Academy which taught students from around the world in person and through books and recordings.

[29] 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.

[9][21][30] Author Ashwin Vinoo says that Cannon's work on aliens "led to propaganda" and created a narrative that "was implanted into the UFO community..."[18] In The Skeptics Dictionary, Robert Todd Carroll wrote that Cannon was "the poster child" for the New Age movement but was undecided as to "whether Dolores Cannon was a charlatan, a fraud, or a sincere delusional person...."[5] The QHHT training she provided in person and through books and tapes informed the practices of hundreds of modern-day hypnotherapists, past life regressionists, and astrologers from around the world.

[3][13] As of 2023, Ozark Mountain Publishing has released books by more than fifty authors on New Age topics such as metaphysics, UFOs, spirituality, alternative healing, reincarnation, and ancient history.