PDF Summary:The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, by Dolores Cannon

Many people sense that something fundamental is changing in our world, but few understand what's happening or why. In The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, Dolores Cannon presents a perspective on planetary transformation: Earth is shifting to a higher dimensional frequency, creating what she calls the New Earth—a reality that will exist alongside our current world.

Cannon explains that three waves of volunteer souls have incarnated on Earth to help with this transition. These volunteers come from other dimensions and have never lived as humans before, making their adjustment to Earth particularly challenging. She discusses how individuals can prepare for this shift by raising their own vibration and releasing fear and karma, and explores the role of energetic grids, DNA changes, and the mechanics of ascending to this new dimensional reality.

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Principles of Involving Volunteers

Cannon believes volunteers arrive to assist humans in evolving and growing. They come to instruct us on how to rewire our damaged neurological systems, which is necessary for us to become more conscious and evolve our hearts and compassion. However, their goal is not to rescue humanity but to observe how this experiment unfolds.

(Shortform note: Cannon doesn’t explain how volunteers would rewire our neurological systems, but we can infer that she means that they would help us change our patterns of thought and behavior, which would then change the physical structure of our brains. In The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge explains that the brain is “plastic,” meaning that it can change its structure and function in response to experience.)

The Nature and Role of Three Generations of Voluntary Helpers

Cannon explains that the three groups of volunteers are new souls who have arrived on Earth to help humanity and the planet transition to another dimension. They're present because the majority of those who have experienced numerous lifetimes on Earth are mired in karma and not advancing. They've lost track of their reason for being here.

(Shortform note: Cannon doesn’t explain how these three groups of volunteers will help humanity and the planet transition to another dimension. One way this could happen is if a small group of people with very different values from the majority of the population triggers a cultural tipping point. In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell explains that a small group of people can have a disproportionate impact on society.)

Next, we'll examine the origins and oversight of the waves of volunteers, as well as the distinctive roles of the initial and third waves.

Origins and Oversight of the Volunteer Waves

According to the author, the trio of volunteer waves is linked to extraterrestrial beings. She acknowledges that people often view the topic of aliens with suspicion and anxiety. However, the universe is made up of many species of entities, and these species learn from each other. The subject's early encounters with extraterrestrials were meant to expand her understanding of life beyond her immediate perception. These experiences were intended to prompt her to ask deeper questions about her purpose and how she can help others.

The subject also contributed to a project to modify DNA by combining human and extraterrestrial genes. In the future, having characteristics of both races will be essential. The subject has also learned she'll be visited by different types of beings who will give her information and teachings. She'll have to get ready to communicate with these beings.

Extraterrestrial Influence on Humanity

The idea of spiritually guided helpers from beyond Earth and stories of altered human genetics have been explored by other writers and movements. For example, the Raëlian movement, founded in the 1970s, teaches that extraterrestrial scientists created life on Earth and have appointed specially chosen emissaries to guide humanity. Scholars of new religious movements have noted that these ideas often emerge in times of social uncertainty, offering alternative explanations for human origins and purpose. The blending of human and extraterrestrial genes, as described in the book, echoes themes found in earlier UFO-based spiritual teachings, suggesting a broader cultural fascination with the idea that humanity's destiny is intertwined with cosmic forces beyond our current understanding.

Next, we’ll discuss the origins and composition of the volunteers, as well as the governance and protocols of intervention.

Volunteer Origins and Composition

Cannon explains that volunteers originate from different dimensions, worlds, or starships. They are pure souls who arrived on Earth to assist us with the transition to the transformed Earth. Most of them have never lived as humans and aren't bound by karma. Many originated from God or Source without having ever incarnated before. They were happy remaining in the all-loving space of the Source and were willing to depart only to assist the Earth. They learned Earth was in distress and required external aid, so they volunteered to take up the challenge.

Certain ethereal entities journeyed and sought new experiences, never having desired to incarnate physically. These souls have struggled to adapt to Earth's unfriendly and unusual surroundings. They are regarded as courageous and highly esteemed for choosing to tackle this challenging mission.

The Bodhisattva Ideal

The concept of volunteers has a long history in spiritual traditions. In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh describes the bodhisattva as someone who, having touched peace and freedom, gives rise to the mind of great compassion and makes the vow to return to the world of birth and death again and again, taking form in any realm where there is suffering, and who refuses to be liberated alone, promising not to enter final nirvana until all beings are helped to the other shore of understanding and love. This Buddhist perspective differs from Cannon's view in that volunteers are not pure souls leaving Source for the first time, but rather beings who have already attained a high level of spiritual realization and choose to incarnate physically out of compassion. The bodhisattva ideal emphasizes the importance of direct engagement with the world and the willingness to take on the suffering of others, which aligns with Cannon's description of volunteers as courageous souls who choose to tackle the challenging mission of assisting Earth.

Governance and Protocols for Interfering

Cannon says higher beings debate the best way to guide Earth’s evolution without interfering. Some want to take direct action to speed up human evolution, while others prefer to observe and respect people's present awareness. They are uncertain whether their intervention would have consequences. Their goal is to help humans develop an awareness of their ability to choose freely. They are trying to figure out how to introduce the idea of free will without affecting it, considering presenting fresh concepts and belief systems to humanity's collective consciousness.

(Shortform note: If higher beings want to introduce the idea of free will into humanity’s collective consciousness, they could do so by inspiring a few receptive people to adopt new belief systems. These people would then share their beliefs with others, who would be free to accept or reject them. This would allow the idea of free will to spread naturally, without interfering with people’s ability to choose.)

Distinctive Roles of Waves One, Two, and Three

Characteristics of the Initial Group

Cannon explains that the first group of volunteers, currently in their late forties to early sixties, have found it hardest to adjust to life on Earth. They dislike the brutality and unattractiveness they encounter here and wish to return "home," despite not knowing, consciously, where that could be. Emotions upset and can even immobilize them, especially intense ones such as anger and hate. They struggle with people expressing these emotions. These emotions profoundly impact them, as if feelings are alien to them. They are accustomed to love and peace because they knew this in their place of origin. Despite appearing to have a successful life, supportive relatives, and fulfilling work, a lot of them attempt to take their own lives. There's no clear explanation, but they feel so unhappy that they wish to depart.

The Risk of Misinterpreting Spiritual Experiences

The first group of volunteers may be at risk of misinterpreting their feelings of alienation and desire to “go home” as purely spiritual, when they may be experiencing a psychological crisis. In The Stormy Search for the Self, Christina Grof and Stanislav Grof explain that in times of spiritual crisis, experiences that have a profound transpersonal or mystical dimension can easily be misinterpreted—either dismissed as mere psychopathology or idealized as purely spiritual. When such “spiritual emergencies” are not recognized and given appropriate psychological and spiritual support, they frequently deteriorate into prolonged disturbance and serious psychological complications instead of unfolding as powerful processes of healing and transformation. This misinterpretation can delay appropriate support and increase the risk of serious self-harm.

Characteristics of the Final Group

Cannon describes the third wave as consisting of new children who have come with the knowledge needed to adjust to new energies and frequencies. Everyone on Earth is having their DNA modified to align with these shifts, while the new children's DNA is already adapted, allowing them to continue with minimal issues.

However, numerous schools misunderstand these children, so they're being medicated. They're more developed and functioning on a different frequency. They have such advanced intelligence that they quickly lose interest in school and need challenges to stay engaged. They're seen as the world's hope. Some of these kids, at just nine or ten, have completed college. They’re establishing groups to assist children worldwide.

Potential Risks of This Perspective

A potential risk of this perspective is that parents and schools may overlook or delay addressing genuine learning disabilities, mood or attention disorders, or stressful home environments. This could allow preventable academic, emotional, and social problems to worsen. For example, a child who “quickly loses interest in school” might have an undiagnosed learning disability or be experiencing bullying. If adults attribute these behaviors solely to being part of a third wave operating on a different frequency, they might miss opportunities to provide targeted support that could help the child thrive.

Processes of Ascension and Planetary Shift

According to Cannon, the Earth and its inhabitants are undergoing a dimensional shift, moving from the 3rd dimension to the 5th dimension, skipping the 4th. This shift is happening because the Creator has decided to accelerate the process, since the Earth is beyond repair. People who don't experience the transition won't notice it. Our physical forms and all our surroundings are raising their vibrational rates and adapting to a different frequency.

(Shortform note: In 1995, Barbara Hand Clow published The Pleiadian Agenda, a book that presents a channeled cosmology from Pleiadian teachers. The book describes a nine-dimensional structure of reality, with each dimension representing different aspects of consciousness and existence. Clow’s work links human evolution to the cycles of the Mayan calendar and the galactic photon band, suggesting that humanity is undergoing a significant evolutionary shift. The book explores topics such as the nature of time, the role of extraterrestrial beings in human history, and the potential for spiritual awakening and transformation.)

All the body's cells start to oscillate at a speed that transforms them into light. At the onset, your body temperature rises, and you begin to radiate light. Once your cells are vibrating extremely quickly, you will vanish from typical sight and enter a higher dimensional existence. This means you'll bypass the process of dying and instead become a Light Body. You will stop aging, and you'll have entered the next dimensional reality, gaining access to the following phase of spiritual evolution. This event will be unprecedented: a whole planet transitioning into another dimension.

Transforming Into a Light Body

The idea that a human body could transform into light and bypass death and aging is not supported by current scientific understanding. According to physics, converting matter into energy (light) requires processes like nuclear fusion or annihilation, which would destroy the structure of the body. The mass-energy equivalence principle (E=mc²) shows that the amount of energy contained in a human body is enormous, and releasing it would be catastrophic. Additionally, biological aging is a complex process involving genetic, cellular, and environmental factors, and there is no evidence that increasing cellular vibration could halt or reverse aging.

Cannon emphasizes that not all will successfully transition to this new reality. Numerous souls have permission to experience it, including many beginners. It can be beneficial to study with more advanced learners, but at some point, students need to advance. People who don't ascend must seek a new planet. They'll be relocated somewhere that supports their growth. The whole planet will experience the shift in dimensions.

The Buddhist Perspective on Death and Rebirth

In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche presents a different perspective on what happens if you don’t “ascend.” In the Buddhist understanding, death is not an annihilation but a doorway through which the stream of consciousness passes into a sequence of bardos, or intermediate states. He explains that, propelled by its own karma, emotions, and habitual tendencies, consciousness continues from life to life by taking rebirth in one of the six realms of existence. Each being’s journey through these transitions is an ongoing, individual process that unfolds from moment to moment rather than a single, final occurrence.

Next, we'll look at individual ascension processes and planetary support systems for this shift.

Individual Ascension Processes

Cannon explains that ascension involves raising your energetic and vibrational levels. Those who do this will rise to the New Earth as it changes and moves into another dimension. They will become invisible to those left behind. Everyone will have the chance to ascend, but it's up to each person whether they can maintain that frequency. No one will judge them. It will just come down to whether they can maintain the energy. No one will be annihilated. They'll find themselves in the right environment for their vibration.

The New Age Concept of Higher Vibrations

In New Age Religion and Western Culture, Wouter J. Hanegraaff explains that the New Age movement is a modern reformulation of much older esoteric worldviews, especially Theosophy. He argues that New Age ideas about “subtle energies,” “higher frequencies,” and “vibrations” are a modernized version of Theosophical and neo-Theosophical multi-level cosmologies. These older systems are translated into a quasi-scientific language borrowed from twentieth-century physics and psychology. This allows spiritual evolution and access to higher planes of reality to be conceptualized in terms of raising or refining one’s level of consciousness-energy.

Planetary Support Systems for Ascension

Energetic Infrastructure & Planetary Healing

Cannon states that the planet's energetic grids need to be repaired and reactivated. These grids consist of light frequencies. They can be repaired by placing crystals at key points around the world and using intention to activate the grids. The crystals serve as intermediaries connecting the Earth grids with the etheric ones. Humans can link the grids by grasping the crystals while being grounded on the planet. Groups of people working in multiples of three can trigger the grids.

The grids are breaking down, and the light frequencies are dissipating. They must be repaired to restore the planet's well-being. Cannon explains that the grids were sealed because the technology was being used in destructive ways. The technology had to be withdrawn to prevent the universe's demise.

Mapping the Grids

Cannon isn’t the first to write about energetic grids. In Earth Energies, David Furlong describes the subtle forces of the Earth as a complex network of energy lines and power-nodes that can be discovered and traced through dowsing and heightened sensitivity. He explains that by using simple tools such as crystals, pendulums, and healing wands, we may attune to these currents, chart their patterns, and work with them primarily as a path of personal transformation, healing, and inner spiritual development. Furlong’s approach is more focused on mapping and personal perception of the grids, rather than on planetary-scale repair.