Pope Annalisa by Peter Canova

March 14, 2011

WHY TAKE YOUR VALUABLE TIME TO READ POPE ANNALISA?

Perhaps once in every generation, a book comes along that can change the course of human perception, not just for the intellectual elite, but for all people, and in doing so it raises the level of human consciousness. For this book comes to the intersection of genuine lost spiritual secrets with quantum science. In doing so it pulls aside the shroud that reveals the truth of our origin, destiny, and purpose on this earth

Critics have called POPE ANNALISA a strikingly original novel. The book has won seven prestigious national awards for its “rare perfect balance” of being a page-turning thriller and a profound spiritual work. He has joined such authors as Eckhart Tolle and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in winning the Nautilus Gold Award for his visionary work.

Background– Year 2025.  World on the brink of disaster. Iran is nuclear; war with America imminent. Western world and Islam near final clash of annihilation. Prophecies predict rise of miracle working Great Heretic, and her new way shall bring the world order to ruin. Miracle working African nun rises amidst murder, betrayal, and assassination.

Pope Clement: “We have decided to create as cardinal the nun, Annalisa Basanjo.”

Cardinal Tormada: “I protest this abomination! What evil are you bringing into our midst?”

Cardian LoPresti: “Cardinal Basanjo, what is the origin of the body and soul? Were we created by the divine?

Annalisa: “Creation implies separation. The idea that we are lumps of clay given life and left in an earthly insane asylum turns our face away from the truth that we are God in physical expression, for we are all direct expressions of the One Consciousness.”

Cardinal Roncalli: “We are one with God? What you have just said is heresy.”

Annalisa: “And the Church says God made everything, yet you say humans are lowly sinners. If God created humanity, does that make him the Greatest Sinner?”

And many will see her dead for turning the world away from 2,000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition with visions such as this. But was this “heresy” the real belief of Jesus and the original Christians? Is Annalisa the savior or destroyer of this harsh new world counting down to nuclear oblivion? Racing against time, four people will learn her secret, and in finding the shocking truth about her, they will uncover the hidden story of humanity.

Peter Canova speaks at many diverse forums across the country demonstrating the startling parallels between a universal spiritual tradition he has uncovered and modern scientific theories from the fields of quantum physics, psychology, and biology. Part of the fascinating story Peter tells encompasses Mary Magdalene and the lost women of the Bible, the real meaning of the sacred feminine, a fresh perspective on the 2012 phenomenon, and the secret teachings of Jesus.

Pope Annalisa is an incredible read. It’s a great novel with a spiritual  bent that doesn’t overwhelm. It reads better than the DaVinci Code or Celestine Prophecy—more like The Color Purple of the Soul—John Kremer, author of 1,001 Ways to Market you Book

ANCIENT WISDOM’S NEW PARADIGM . . . January 7, 2011

From the WHOLE LIFE TIMES
http://www.wholelifemagazine.com/blog/?p=1571
By Peter Canova

There was an ancient spiritual wisdom tradition, universal throughout Sumer, India, Persia, and into the Mediterranean cultures, that spoke to the origin, destiny, and purpose of humanity. This tradition was radical, for it said that human beings were not external creations of God as we are taught in most modern religions. The startling central secret of this wisdom was that human beings are God in a particular state of being. That state of being is spirit consciousness embodied in physical form experiencing a material existence.

This concept is an enormous shift from our currently accepted paradigm of reality. The traditional modern view of God, humanity, and reality can be summarized as follows: human beings were created from the dust of the earth like lumps of clay into which God breathed life. This God is like a stern judge or bearded old emperor on a throne dispensing justice. We are rewarded for doing good and punished for sins. Sin is a built-in condition of humanity, for early humans transgressed against God, so we forever labor under the shadow of our ancestor’s actions.

One might think that many today have discarded such notions with a more enlightened or even a more atheistic view about God, but the fear and guilt of these beliefs are hardwired into the collective psyche and have a profound subconscious influence on our lives.

Now contrast this belief with the notion that God is consciousness, the source of all being. This all pervasive consciousness existed, but It desired a different state, that of experiencing. So, everything began to project Its Consciousness outward into numerous points of consciousness with a small “c.” Envision this process as a row of unlit candles. The original flame lights the first candle, the first candle lights the second, and so on.

This is the process the ancients called emanation, the outflowing or projection of God’s energetic essence to form conscious beings. So, all conscious beings are part of God’s essence, but, ah, there’s a catch. The Everything is unlimited, while to be something necessarily implies limitation. Therefore Consciousness, like an electrical current, had to be stepped down or altered like a reverse transformer. Think of the process this way— successive copies of a DVD will lose a degree of resolution and clarity in relation to the copy before it. Similarly, these separate points of spirit consciousness lose awareness the further they are projected away from the Source.

This diminished awareness or ignorance is actually a necessary precondition for having a separate sense of self. The only way the one True Consciousness of Everything can gain experience as something such as an individual being is to forget Itself, to become ignorant of Its own light in varying degrees. This is what the Hindus and Buddhists call maya, or illusion, and they have described our world as the playground in which God fools Himself. This is the basic theme of pop culture phenomena such as the Matrix movie.

And the great part about all this for you and me? We can remember. If what the tradition says is true, think of the implications. We would not be helpless creatures blown about by fate, ignorant of our origin, purpose, and destiny. We would not be born to a lowly state of sin, but only to one of forgetfulness. But we can remember. We can regain the light of the source (enlightenment) by remembrance of and focus on our true state of unity.

Armed with basic knowledge and desire, we can refocus our awareness from experiencing back to being. True meditation and contemplation is about using the knowledge described here combined with heartfelt desire to transcend our condition. This eventually leads to a personal inner experience with higher intelligence. This life altering contact transports us beyond faith and intellectual knowledge. It puts us in the highest state of knowledge, that of knowing God or Supreme Consciousness through actual experience.

If all this sounds alien to traditional modern religion, you’ll be amazed to know that these beliefs were embedded into the very original core of ancient Judaism and Christianity before being ruthlessly suppressed. The tragic loss of this tradition is closely tied in with the mysterious disappearance of the early female Christian leaders such as Mary Magdalene.

The other startling thing about this ancient spiritual tradition is that the visions brought back and recorded by its mystic practioners predicted the most cutting edge theories of modern quantum physics—the Big Bang, Parallel Universe Theory, Relativity, and the Holographic Universe Theory among others.

This wisdom tradition was buried but not extinguished. Elements of it survived in numerous forms over the ages—the Tarot, the Rosicrucians, Theosophy, and Masonry, to mention some. It even formed the impetus for the New Age movement, as pejorative as some those elements have become.

Spiritual seekers take heart. Your search is guided and supported by this ancient tradition. It’s not a new dogma or “ism” in which to get caught. It’s a guide, a signpost along your spiritual highway, not a bus stop where you have to punch your ticket and stagnate in a particular set of beliefs. It is about true liberation and freedom to which you may come through work, desire and application of growing knowledge of spirit. And ultimately, these are the things that truly set us free.

Peter Canova’s novel, Pope Annalisa, is the first book in a trilogy called the First Souls. Pope Annalisa is a spiritual thriller about an African nun who becomes the first female pope.

PRAYER OF THE SCRIBE . . . August 17, 2010

O Lord, grant me a poem.
Let me tell a story to rend the hearts of men.

True God of All Things seen and unseen,
breathe Thy spirit into me.
Let me tell a story to break the stony hearts of men–
that Thou may enter their shattered prisons,
and fill the crevices of their sorrow,
and drain the swamps of their fear,
and lift them from shadow to dwell in truth.

Let me translate Thy Love into a language
they will understand for all time.
Allow me a poem of eternal beauty
that will open the hearts of men,
and draw them closer to Thee,
and show them they are of Thy realm,
and assure them that Thou dwelleth in them.

O Lord, let me tell a story, frozen in eternal beauty,
for all generations to come, that will break the iron hearts of men.

Peter Canova 2009

What kind of god toys with us by tempting us into evil with the gift of free will? The Gnostic, or western, branch of this ancient wisdom answers this question by telling us God did not create the world—not exactly. There is one God, but God operated through intermediary energies or intelligences in the creation. Most major religions echo this belief in some form, even the ones most zealous about their monotheism. Christianity has the Christ and the Holy Spirit as well as the angels and devils they share in common with their Judaic and Islamic cousins. Islam has jinns. Hinduism and Buddhism have their gods and goddesses, each one differing in their intrinsic blend of light and shadow.

In keeping with the notion of intermediary forces, Gnostics believed the creator of the material world was not the One True God, but an inferior force, generated from, but too far removed from the Source, to create perfection. Think of how videos or CD’s degrade in clarity with each successive copy and you have the general idea behind this notion. Thus we have the genesis of the rampant flaws and evil evident on the material plane of existence. The goal of the Gnostic was attaining the spiritual knowledge necessary to overcome these limiting forces that intervened between humanity and the True God at the root of all things.

Far fetched? Much needless conflict has occurred over the nature of God. This is puzzling. The “monotheistic” religions recognize god-like intermediary forces and the “polytheistic” religions ultimately acknowledge that one Supreme Being manifested all the sub-deities. These religions ascribe differing names to the intermediary forces, but they all hold that unseen intelligences play a great role in human life.  Significantly, most religions also recognize that the various non-material powers are not entirely beneficial to human development. Thus we have the concepts of devils, jinns, and evil spirits—in other words, retardant forces.

Gnostics and their myths accounted for the fact that the further the manifested forces were from the Source, the more “shadow” they contained.  This shadow gave rise to the creator god and the distinction between him and the ‘hidden” True God.The two gods are a symbolic of the dichotomy between the flawed material world and the perfection we are always told that God truly represents.

Continued on the next blog

In the last blog, I spoke about a universal spiritual tradition that was at the root of every major religion on earth, pagan or mainstream.This tradition, directly or indirectly and to a greater or lesser degree, speaks of a fall, a change from a higher to lower state of awareness. But unlike the fall depicted in Judeo-Christian traditions, the fallen, according to this wisdom, are never really separated or different from that from which they have fallen away, neither was there the concept of sin attached to this event. The fall, though apparently a mistake, was ultimately intentional, because the Source and the fallen were one.

The Source—call it God, the One, the Monad—permeates everything. Therefore, the fall was an act of conscious self-limitation, a dispersing of one Universal Consciousness into the appearance of many limited points of view. Limitation means ignorance of the whole, and ignorance is a form of shadow. So, shadow and error were inherent in human experience. This is why one often hears the world described as an illusion by offshoots of this tradition, illusion meaning that human consciousness is separated from the reality of its oneness not in fact but by misperception.

Central in this collective story is the recognition that the universe, both seen and unseen, was shaped by intelligent forces. In physics, we have gravity, electro-magnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. These unseen forces shape our physical world. But, according to the ancient wisdom, even these energies were controlled by higher forces that affected the human soul (the psyche) as well. Natural law had a mathematical precision; the psychic world of the mind and soul was chaotic, seemingly subject to random chance and full of suffering. It was order and chaos, good and evil, side by side. How is this duality possible when even the scientist and the religious believer instinctively sense a unity behind all things? The scientist searches for the holy grail of a grand unified field theory to unite all the natural forces. The religious person seeks God, and if God is everything, how can a loving god be the source of all the evil in the world? What kind of god toys with us by tempting us into evil with the gift of free will? More on this next time.

This is the reality of the world. Why is it so? Why isn’t Earth the easy paradise symbolized by Eden? Why is the material world different from the heaven so many of our religions envision, a beneficent place where earthly cares are shed?    A tradition exists that directly addresses the questions above. As I pursued spiritual matters throughout the course of my life, it became apparent to me that certain threads interconnected the course of human spiritual history. From India and Asia, through Persia and on into the Middle East and Europe, echoes of a universal wisdom appear in multifold traditions from Hinduism to Buddhism, Manichaeism, Greek philosophy, the Mediterranean mystery schools, and ultimately the three Abrahamic religions.   See the Video and Articles links for more information.