Never In Our Lifetime Has The Future Been In A More Uncertain State. Peter Canova, Bestselling, Award-Winning Author Of Futuristic Fiction Novel: Pope Annalisa

LOS ANGELES, CA, February 08, 2012 (Press-News.org) Peter Canova's Pope Annalisa garners two Indie Excellence Awards, making seven total in less than one year since its publication. The novel has also swept the prestigious Nautilus Book Awards, winning two Silver Medals and one Gold Medal in two different fiction categories, and took another medal in the Independent Publishers Book Award.

Peter is appearing at two upcoming events- He's speaking at the Conscious Life Expo at the LAX Hilton on Feb. 11 at 8 PM, and he's presenting at a 2 day event, Feb 18 and 19, called "Creation Matrix 2012" also at the LAX Hilton. For more info on the events go to: http://www.RetreatSedona.com. Canova's novel and more are at: http://www.PopeAnnalisa.com.

From the time he first experienced phenomena such as telepathy, remote viewing, intuitive medical readings, and psychic healing, Peter Canova has spent much of his life seeking to understand the forces that link humanity together at an unseen level.

Peter's former businesses—luxury hotel development, shipping, and import/exporting—carried him around the world, giving him an insider's view of international politics, finance, and the mentality of foreign cultures. Athens, Rome, London, the Middle East, Thailand, and Africa were the crucibles that melded business, political, and economic intrigues in Peter's experience, giving him real life stories that could make best sellers in and of themselves.

In each of these venues, Peter also met a variety of spiritual figures, all of whom appeared in his life unsolicited and confirmed his conviction that spirit transcends the religious beliefs that tend to divide people.

Peter had an affinity for writing, and in the late 1990's he acted on this talent winning a First Literary Prize for his very first short story at the highly respected Santa Barbara's Writer's Conference in California. Shortly thereafter, he took first place out of 500 entries in Francis Ford Coppola's online Zoetrope magazine for his first publicly circulated short story, The Blood of our Departed.

Peter continued his track record of writing excellence with the publication of Pope Annalisa, which immediately won the Nautilus and Independent Publishers Awards in quick succession followed by the National Best Book Award. In Pope Annalisa, he explores an ancient spiritual tradition which cut across not only Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but also the so-called pagan mystery schools of ancient days.

Peter has twenty-five years of voluminous research behind him in both mainstream and alternative religious/spiritual studies, with a particular interest in early Christianity. He is a leading expert on Gnostic and other ancient spiritual traditions. He travels the country as a speaker on such topics as parallels between Gnostic mysticism and quantum physics, the Sacred Feminine, Mary Magdalene and the lost women of the Bible, and the secret teachings of Jesus. His skills helped him break down these complex spiritual themes into simple and entertaining fiction. Pope Annalisa was a combination of this research and information channeled in his own meditations.
His hope is that this cross-over novel, part thriller and part spiritual wisdom text, will point to a new paradigm transcending the dead end dogmas of religious, cultural and gender differences that have caused so much suffering in the human community.

Peter Canova has written a trilogy entitled The First Souls, concerning the first awakening of spirit into materiality in the form of human consciousness. Pope Annalisa is the first book of the series. At the age of twenty-three, he first realized his abilities concerning intuitive medical readings, remote viewing, psychokinesis, and other psychic phenomena. These abilities combined with several other talents qualified Peter to handle this project. He also has twenty-five years of voluminous research behind him in both mainstream and alternative religious studies, spiritual history, psychology, and quantum physics. Peter is a cum laude graduate of Brandeis University where he majored in political science. He spent several years in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, a background that greatly contributed to the vivid detail of peoples and cultures portrayed in Pope Annalisa.

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