Dolores Cannon: The Back Drop People

[lake]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
So, Dolores scares me with this concept. She is leading people towards an attitude of dismissing most of humanity, being apathetic to the point of "depraved indifference" towards billions of humans - other souls on individual incarnate journeys. It is very selfish and self-flattering to believe that billions of humans don't really exist other than as temporary backdrops.

If I can address this:

other souls on individual incarnate journeys

and in doing so hopefully ease your concern?

Cannon....as far as I can glean....is only presenting a limited consideration of the already known, regarding 'back drop people'.

Within the old books one finds very many references to this knowledge....but it continues from just the creation and interaction!

She missed out the part where YOU MUST treat them as your child.

You created them....take full responsibility for that action.......or else!

'They' .... can become as full individual interactions with the totality of All.

There is so very much which is never told nor discussed but which 'creates' and determines the 'paths' walked.

I have 'hated' this 'earth' for a looooonnnnng time.......but now I comprehend more my place and reason....and the same as yours and the "back drop people".......it is so very, very vital.

You do not dismiss them....You create them and they are akin to 'children'!

[AutumnW]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)

Posted by Mike (here)
I was almost totally unfamiliar with Dolores Cannon...... Back drop people...wtf?

So this is what they are, and what they aren't:
They are not human....

One big problem in subscribing to the notion of background people, or really, of the 'game'/holograph concept of life, is losing compassionate connection with what just might really be 8 million souls struggling on the same 3D planet. It isn't a giant leap to, "Hey, I don't care about Israelis slaughtering the Palestinians - none of it is real. Since they are not in my immediate world of assumed real humans, I'll just say they don't really exist and not have to spend any more time fretting about it. It's all a game. If it's out of my field of vision, it isn't real. "The Truman Show" is accurate. Pass the popcorn."

So, Dolores scares me with this concept. She is leading people towards an attitude of dismissing most of humanity, being apathetic to the point of "depraved indifference" towards billions of humans - other souls on individual incarnate journeys. It is very selfish and self-flattering to believe that billions of humans don't really exist other than as temporary backdrops.

I measure spiritual growth - on Earth - as the (fuzzy) boundary of an expanding circle of compassion. I say "on Earth" because if your soul can do its work alone in a cave away from other ensoulded beings, you'd have no need of being on Earth. The wider (humanity) and more all encompassing (all life forms) your compassion becomes, in my view, the more obviously "enlightened" and "spiritually evolved" you are.

Dolores confuses me with a number of things she says, that seem kinda like campfire story embellishment details that popped into her head, and she went with them, and then she had to stick with them. I don't know. my gut says she may be a total fraud who has gleaned some true spiritual reincarnation details, and then added her schtick. Evidently, none of the 7000 soul regression-memory subjects Michael Newton spoke with ran into Dolores' version of the truth.

Some people are mundane thinkers whose preoccupations revolve around their immediate concerns, stresses and entertainments. They are not soulless or worthless, cruel or expendable. ( maybe just a bit annoying??) Laura Knight Unspellable ran with this idea and it gained a certain amount of traction.

As Dennis says, these are potentially very dangerous concepts, particularly in a pre-fascist era where there are so many forces out there that encourage us to deny the humanity of those defined as, "other."

But purely speaking, the idea of backdrop 'people,' who have some kind of mission here and then fade out? To me, this speaks to the idea that dream life and waking life are not fixed and completely separate, nor are they just products of our own consciousness.

Our lives are amorphous structures, products of a greater consciousness, we unwittingly co-create with...that is, until we realize this fact, much like a person "dreaming" can become lucid within a "dream".

After that point we gain a bit more agency. In that respect, I have the impression that the backdrop people may be what we would call angels or inner guides and they may manifest in the physical at times.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I personally reject all such talk. The ego likes to complicate and rationalize the irrational.
This is the ego's world, built and made by us. This is not creation and this is not life.

[enfoldedblue]

Many years ago during my awakening period synchronicities were sooo intense. Things like going to a bar in a huge city in different country and ending up sitting accross from 2 people from my home town. During this time one of my friends joked that the reason we were experiencing such things was that there really only were a few thousand people on Earth and the rest were filler.

Many years later I came across Delores' theory and found it intersting that it aligned with my friend's joke. However I am definitely am not saying I think it is true. I also believe that each person on Earth has a story and is growing in some way.

However what I do think is possible is that maybe one man's filler is another man's hero. In that there are soul groups working on particular lessons or missions, and for each specific soul group..there will be active players.... and the rest are kinda filler, or extras. So we may play main caracters in some stories...and be extras in others.

Another idea relating to this that intrigues me is the idea that many of us here are actually living parallel lives...in that have the experience of being the me i am consciously aware of....but my soul could also be expressing itself as a man living in India, a woman in Italie etc. I considered this because sometimes on the edge of sleep i get flashes of what feels like scenes from current, but different lives.


Hope this makes some sense!

[Mark]

I'm under the impression that all energetic beings have at least some form of consciousness running the show, causing them to be who they are, where they are and when they are during their sojourn within this material plane. The question of how much of that energy is caught up in the "I" formation seems to be the point of contention. There does seem to be a scale, upon which some fall to the left, which may be more collective in nature, while others fall more toward the right, which may be more individualistic. Implications of incarnation, young or old soul and potential walk-in status per Dolores, apply as well.

[Valerie Villars]

I have to say I experienced this. I saw some people like they were walking dead. Some people were very alive. I think it has more to do with being really conscious and awake versus some people who are sleep walking through life. It's just different vibrational levels. It's really an awful thing to experience and quite frightening. It's like a version of "The Truman Show". I assure you it's quite real.

In fact, it was so disturbing to experience this first hand, I almost didn't make it through the experience.

From what I remember, the Gnostics also have a version of these "non living" beings.

I do believe they are alive, but not as sentient as other beings. However, those with more conscious awareness than us, probably experience us as the walking dead. It's all in the perspective.

It's much easier to just watch porn and not think about it. (I am, of course, kidding.)

[white wizard]

I was actually thinking about this theory today while in the shower and than boom its

on Avalon. I credit Delores with turning my life around and pulling me out of the fear

mentality. I also know the akashic records are a real thing and I think she is right.

Just my gut feeling that lady was a pioneer and in past life regression and her work

should be taken seriously.

[angelfire]

You may not regard yourself as an intellectual, Mike, but you certainly have a way with words and one that often makes me laugh out loud!

Thanks for an interesting and thought provoking post!

[Arcturian108]

In my opinion Dolores Cannon was a great story teller and fantasist. She was very knowledgeable about past-life regression, and personally trained me to do such.

[AriG]

Delores Cannon is definitely an acquired taste. That said, I completely agree with the back drop people theory. It seems to me, that the world is suddenly full of empty people- those without care, responsibility and compassion. The ones hooked into their phones driving 100 mph down the highway weaving in and out of traffic- who does that? Not a human, that’s for sure. Move in to the young people taking the “ tide challenge”- eating toxic soap pods that I wouldn’t use in my laundry, let alone ingest! Just two simple examples. But, when a decent percentage of the population is erratic, careless, hateful, self interested and cruel, the only conclusion I can draw is that they represent the modern era version of the serpent in the garden. There to disrupt and challenge that which is good. Bad actors in the theater of life. Their purpose to test our resolve to be kind caring and decent The embodiment of Mr. Smith(s) in ‘ The Matrix ‘.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by AriG (here)
...the young people taking the “ tide challenge”- eating toxic soap pods that I wouldn’t use in my laundry, let alone ingest! Just two simple examples...

For those unfamiliar with the laundry pod dare.


Laundry pods latest target of teenage dares (2:29 minutes)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5mcTJFmeC6A

[Bubu]

back drop people to me are those that dont seem to trust their own ideas or senses so they simply subscribe to the absurd ideas of self proclaimed gurus like dolores. My beliefs may only be true to me but they are true, to me at least.

[Joe Akulis]

Heh heh. Sheesh, Bubu. You might not have worded what you wanted to say there very well...

The world is flat. If you sail too far in one direction, you'll fall off the edge. That was probably someone's "own idea" a few hundred years ago. Then this self-proclaimed guru sails up and says he kept sailing and found some new territory that no one even knew existed.

That person who's truth encompasses an idea that the world is flat had better not pay much attention to these explorers, otherwise he could start believing that they are right, and it'll be obvious that he doesn't trust his own idea of a flat world anymore, and thus be looked upon as a back drop person.

Better to remain a foreground person and continue to believe everything is flat. Flatness will still be true to him, after all.

(Sorry, I just couldn't avoid the urge to shoot holes in that one...)

[Wind]

If some people don't make a direct impact on your life doesn't mean that they wouldn't do that to someone else in the world. So in a sense we feel that the several other billions of people on planet Earth are not connected to us, but yet they are because separation is only an illusion. It truly is. We are not always just conscious of that and meaningful soul connections are another thing.

I don't think I could subscribe to the backdrop people theory as it is presented, it makes no sense.

[Bubu]

Hey Joe, hahaha now get ready for the hole plugger. You are speaking from the point of view of an idiot, oooppps sorry dont mean any negativity just speaking my truth just my truth. I'm the kind who is always eager to investigate new perspective and embrace it whenever its validated by my logic. am not the kind who will deny the truth simply to remain in my comfort zone and know that I will remain an idiot for the rest of my life.

for your comfort idiot are mere words that is use to describe equal but diverse people. But in reality there is no idiot humans simply has different strengths idiots are the corrupted version of humans the "sheeple" or the hubots if you may. Anyone that is connected to himself is connected to the source and is no idiot even flat earthers maybe more so. I can imagine the looks on my 4 months old first grandson full of wonders but know almost nothing. 3 years from now he may start thinking that earth is flat. and who does not? He is certainly no fool wiser than me surely. So wise that his looks uplifts not only me but everyone who can pay few seconds of attention to his innocence. he is the version of an innocent but honest flat earther not the defiant ignorant one. Unfortunate we are talking of two different kinds of believer and you are not describing me.

Joe my friend, I know you already for a while your comments anywhere on avalon are some of the ones i never ignore. you are certainly no fool just speaking from the point of view of another person.

[Joe Akulis]

Just making sure you got the impression that if you're gonna hop into a Dolores discussion and blurt out without any preamble that she's a self proclaimed guru with absurd ideas, that you better be ready to duck. :-)

Where's that Back to Topic sign?

[Bubu]

Posted by Joe Akulis (here)
Just making sure you got the impression that if you're gonna hop into a Dolores discussion and blurt out without any preamble that she's a self proclaimed guru with absurd ideas, that you better be ready to duck. :-)

Where's that Back to Topic sign?

thanks Joe I dont know what this forum is for you but for me its simply a exchange of ideas. I see no reason to duck from an honest discussion. did I ones duck anywhere on avalon?

[TomKat]

Posted by Mike (here)
I was almost totally unfamiliar with Dolores Cannon up until a few days ago, when I ran into her while mindlessly watching youtube vids. All I knew was that she looks like every grandma I'd ever seen and wears fuzzy faded sweaters and likely smells of fabric softener and a hint of cheap perfume. She had also written books about waves of "volunteers" who had allegedly arrived from all over the universe to assist us in our little social experiment here. But, as it often does, one youtube video ended and tripped into another..and right as I was about to give it all up and go back to watching porn, I found myself involved with this strange but intriguing video about an alleged phenomena called "back drop people".

Movie: Inception. Pretty good illustration.

[TomKat]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by greybeard (here)
A "May be so" in my book.

A "Highly unlikely" in mine!

I think of the "background people' as having little vertical consciousness (individual connection to higher self) and mostly just have horizontal (group) consciousness. That's why they're so predictable, and tend to believe the official version of things.

At least in this version of reality. In another version, I may be the one just barely present while they are the individuals.

[lake]

I would guess that most will have read this book:

ILLUSIONS
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Rich...h%20(2001).pdf

and the concept (as I consider it ) of "back drop people" is even expressed within it, page 54:

The vampire looked up at me and smiled, completely at ease, enjoying himself hugely, an actor on stage when the show is over.

“I won’t drink your blood, Richard,” he said in perfect friendly English, no accent at all.

As I watched he faded as though he was turning out his own light... in five seconds he had disappeared.

Shimoda sat down again by the fire. “Am I ever glad you don’t mean what you say!”

I was still trembling with adrenalin, ready for my fight with a monster.

“Don, I’m not sure I’m built for this. Maybe you’d better tell me what’s going on. Like, for instance, what... was that?”

“Dot was a wompire from Tronsylwania,” he said in words thicker than the creature’s own.
“Or to be more precise, dot was a thought-form of a wompire from Tronsylwania.If you ever want to make a point, you think somebody isn’t listening, whip ‘em up a little thought-form to demonstrate what you mean. Do you think I overdid him, with the cape and the fangs and the accent like that?

Was he too scary for you?”