At a Glance
- Narrator: Carol Morrison alone, on a book whose sessions need one voice to sound convincingly like two people in a room.
- Subjects: Past-life regression, an accidental discovery in 1968, hypnosis before the vocabulary existed, belief systems overturned.
- Tone: Earnest and wide-eyed.
- Bottom line: A period document for readers already inside this world, sold from a page whose own numbers refuse to add up.
One counted rating sits at the top of this audiobook listing and five written responses sit underneath it. Two things follow from that, and they are separate problems. A single vote cannot produce an average of 4.8, because one rating can only ever be a whole number of stars. And five people have plainly written about this book on a page whose tally insists that one person graded it. Neither figure explains the other, and a buyer scrolling down can verify the mismatch in about four seconds.
Signed with what amounts to an advertisement, the most substantial endorsement on the page arrives with a distraction attached. The display name runs an author's name followed by three of that author's own book titles, one of which contains the words Lives Remembered. Anyone searching this column for the title being sold will therefore find a different book inside somebody's signature. It is not deceptive, exactly, but it is the sort of thing a store with any editorial attention would tidy. What it says, though, is aimed with real precision. It addresses people who have already been through the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique and had questions answered in a session, and it frames the book for them as an origin story: "this is the true story of how it all began back in the 1960s." So the clearest statement of who this book is for comes from a customer, not from the publisher, and the answer is people already inside the practice.
Meanwhile the copy quietly dates itself. It claims the author has explored thousands of cases in the forty years since 1968, which puts the writing of that sentence somewhere around 2008, and then announces that the manuscript has lain dormant until now. This recording was published in 2017. The description was close to a decade old on the day the file went on sale, and nothing on the page has been touched since.
Highlights
Filed more than six years before this recording existed, the oldest entry in the column cannot have been grading the audio at all. It recommends the book without hedging, and it supplies the same framing the copy does: "This is her first book written in 1980 and it tells of the miraculous journey Cannon is taken on by her clients." Useful corroboration, from a reader who arrived at the material long before any audio edition of it.
Format suits the material for one specific reason. The copy describes an experiment conducted between people in a room: a doctor, a patient asked to relax, and two curious amateurs who kept going after the point where they say they should have stopped. Testimony suits audio in a way argument does not, and this is testimony from beginning to end. Nobody is proving anything here. They are recounting what happened and what it did to their beliefs.
Chronology is the copy's strongest argument, and it is easy to miss among the exclamation marks. It asks you to travel back to a point when reincarnation, past lives, regression, walk-ins and New Age were words the general population did not use, and it says the participants had no framework at all for what came out of the sessions. That is the interesting part of this book: not what was found, but that the people finding it had no vocabulary to file it under and no reason to expect any of it.
Carol Morrison reads the whole nine hours and eighteen minutes. Material like this carries at least two registers, the person telling you about the experiment and the voices produced inside it, and the boundary between them has to be made audible by the reader, since nothing in the copy suggests the text marks it for you. That is a real assignment rather than a straight read, and how it is handled will decide whether the sessions land as documents or as performances. This page reports nothing about the result.
Before You Commit to Five Lives Remembered
Vocabulary is the first obstacle. One entry is written almost entirely inside the practice's own terminology, praising sessions, marveling at what they surface, and finishing on "QHHT reveals so much amazing detail." Those four letters appear nowhere in the publisher's copy. A newcomer arriving from the spirituality shelf will therefore meet the acronym in the customer column before meeting anything that explains it, which is a peculiar order for an introductory purchase. The same entry gets the author's surname wrong, too, where the byline directly above it has it right. Minor, and worth noticing anyway, because it is a small sign of how the column functions: enthusiastic, informal, and unedited, written by people who are recommending an experience rather than reviewing a product.
Weigh the ages involved, too. The text was written in 1980 about events from 1968, and this recording arrived in 2017. You are listening to something composed thirty-seven years before the file was made, about experiences twelve years older still. The copy treats that gap as the selling point, arguing that the ideas were ahead of their time and the manuscript was waiting. A listener should decide in advance whether they want a period document or a current account, because this is emphatically the former.
Best Suited For
Reach for it if you already work with past-life material, or if you have sat through a session and want to know where the whole thing started. One brief entry captures the intended reaction exactly: "It is an eye opener." That is somebody encountering an idea, not somebody weighing evidence, and this book is built for the first of those readers rather than the second. Nine hours is a comfortable length for the story it tells, since the copy sells a single unfolding episode rather than a survey.
Let it go if you want the science, or a skeptical reading, or a text that argues with itself at any point. The copy promises none of those and delivers a story instead: two ordinary people, one relaxed patient, and a result nobody expected. Let it go too if the dating bothers you, because everything here, the writing, the events and the description, belongs to a much earlier moment than the release date suggests. And if you are new to the subject entirely, understand that the column above is speaking to insiders, so its enthusiasm is not calibrated for you.
Is this audiobook based on Dolores Cannon's first book?
By the copy's own account, yes. It states the book was written in 1980, calls it her very first, and says the manuscript sat unpublished for years afterward. This recording followed in 2017. What you are hearing is the earliest text in a body of work that kept growing for decades after the manuscript was finished.
One of the reviews is three words long. Is that typical of this column?
Two of the five entries run to a single line, and the shortest reduces its verdict to three words: "Very interesting book." Brevity of that order is common on spiritual titles, where readers recommend an experience rather than assess a product. It does mean the column is short on detail and cannot do much checking on your behalf.
Should I start here or with one of the later audiobooks in this body of work?
The copy credits the author with fifteen books and calls this one the first, written before the vocabulary of the field existed. A newcomer gets the origin story without the framework that came later. Someone already reading the later work gets the missing first chapter, which is the stronger reason to buy it.
