The Structure of Heaven

An encyclopedia of the paranormal, How Spirit is organized and how it affects your daily life

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  • Introduction
  • 1. Skepticism and Classical Physics
    • Skepticism/Humanism
    • Skepticism/Relativity and Quantum Physics
    • Skepticism/CSICOP
    • Skepticism/Why the Skeptics are Wrong
    • Skepticism/The advantages of belief
  • 2. The Human Soul
    • Why do we live in a material Universe?
    • The Human Soul and its Relationship to the Body
  • 3. God and Theodicy
    • Does God cause bad things to happen to good people?
    • Guardian Spirits and the Life Plan
    • What is Theodicy?
      • Zoroastrian Theodicy
      • Jewish Theodicy
      • Christian Theodicy
      • Why is Theodicy important?
      • Can Love conquer all??
  • 4. Psychics and mediums- an overview
    • What are psychics and mediums?
    • Why mediums can’t seem to agree about the afterlife
  • 5. The Structure of Heaven
    • The Universe according to Emanuel Swedenborg and Frederick Myers
    • A Map of the spiritual realm
    • Spirit Portals
  • 6. Heaven, Hell and the planes of illusion
    • Introducing The transitional plane (The Earth Sphere)
      • The functions of the transitional plane.
      • Crossing over
      • Time traps on the transitional plane
    • Evolution within the planes of illusion
      • The Summerlands and above
      • The Winterlands
    • The Hells
      • The Conditions in the Hells
      • Who goes to Hell?
      • Hell and the transitional plane
    • How spirits from different levels perceive each other
    • Vertical Stratification of the Spiritual Realm and How Spirits Progress
    • Horizontal Stratification and Spiritual Social Groups
  • 7. What happens when we die?
    • There is no external Judgment in the Afterlife!
    • Death doesn’t change a soul’s attitude
    • The life review
    • What do spirits look like?
    • Ghosts and their clothes
    • Zombies
    • Time 
    • Time in the planes of illusion
    • Memory in the world of spirit
    • What’s it like to be dead?
  • 8. Spiritual laws/The Law of Divine Love
    • Spiritual Laws/The law of compensation
    • Spiritual Laws/Spiritual Gravity
    • Spiritual Laws/Spiritual Frequencies
    • Spiritual Laws/The Law of Attraction
    • Spiritual Laws/The Law of Free Will and Good vs. Evil
    • The red devil and the white angel
    • The spiritual advantage of Living in a Material World
    • Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?
  • 9. The Human Aura and Theosophy
    • The Aura as a Protective Spiritual Skin
    • The Aura and Spiritual infection (Obsession)
  • 10. Dr. Carl Wickland and Thirty Years Among the Dead
    • Dr. Wickland’s Spirit Dialogs
    • Spirit Related Insanity
  • 11. Spiritual Infection and Modern psychiatry
    • Emanuel Swedenborg’s Spiritual Insight
    • Wilson Van Dusen
    • Wilson Van Dusen’s Heavenly and Hellish Voices
    • Entities that invade the minds of the living
  • 12. Earthbound Spirits
    • Will I end up an earthbound spirit?
      • Three reasons that GOOD souls get stuck on the transitional plane.
    • Where do ghosts get their energy?
    • Human Spirit Obsession
    • Human Spirit Possession
    • Criminal culpability and spiritual infections
    • Enthrallment by the living and Hypnosis
      • Enthrallment and Abusive Relationships
      • Enthrallment: Cults
      • Enthrallment in the afterlife
      • Enthrallment by God and angels
  • 13. Angels and demons
    • The Provenance of Angelic Beings
    • The War in heaven
    • Angels and their function in religion
    • Magic and Wicca
    • Demonology
      • The structure of Hell
      • How demons infect a person or place
      • The five stages of demonic attack
      • Why do demons want to possess people?
      • The characteristics of demons
      • Thought Forms
  • 14 exorcim
    • Major exorcisms (also called imperative exorcisms)
    • False, or fake possessions
    • How Religion Views Demons Vs. Ghosts
    • Avoiding Demonic Repossession
    • Who can Remove Demons?
    • Removing Human ghosts
    • Exorcism and poltergeist activity in disturbed children
    • Haunted Dolls and Other Objects
    • Dealing with Family and Marriage Disturbances Caused by Ghosts
    • Goodness and ghosts
  • 15. Poltergeists, Ghosts and Hauntings
    • Poltergeists versus Ghosts
    • How spiritualists view ghosts
    • How Parapsychologists view ghosts
    • Children and Poltergeist infestations
    • Poltergeists that make the news
    • Ghosts and spiritual imprints
    • Ghosts of famous people
    • Why do ghosts seem bound to the same location?
      • Ghosts and sensory deprivation
    • A Ghost Story
    • Differentiating between Human and Demonic hauntings
      • Hauntings by Human ghosts
        • Ghost hangouts
      • Hauntings by Demonic spirits
  • 16. All about Psychics and others prone to spiritual infections
    • 1. Psychic Sensitives
      • Psi and the human brain
      • The five general categories of psychics
    • 2. Spiritual infection and mental illness
      • Are the spiritually infected mentally ill responsible for their criminal acts?
    • 3. Spiritual infection and Acquired Negative Lifestyles
      • Spiritual infection and drug and alcohol addiction
      • Spiritual infection as a result of negative personality traits
    • 4. Spiritual infection and childhood abuse
  • 17. Criminals and Spirits
    • Why are criminals more prone to spirit obsession than other people?
  • 18. Religion and Government
    • The birth of Morality
    • Religion = Spirit + Politics
    • The paranormal and religion
    • Human Nature-The REAL reason for religion
      • Sex and Religion
      • Religion and War
      • Religion vs. Secular law
    • Religious Dogmas
      • The Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
    • Spiritualism
    • Why are the dark spheres necessary?
  • 19. Spirit Lies and Tall Tales!
    • Edgar Cayce
    • Edgar Cayce and Atlantis
  • 20. Suicide and its Spiritual Consequences
    • Nondiscretionary Suicides
    • Discretionary Suicide
    • Why you should never choose to commit suicide
    • Suicide Terrorists
  • 21. Reincarnation (An Introduction)
    • Spiritualism and Reincarnation
    • Allan Kardec and the Spirits’ Book
    • Allan Kardec, a warrior for reincarnation
    • Theosophy and Reincarnation
      • Madame Blavatsky
    • A House divided
    • Karma
    • Swedenborg on reincarnation
    • The group soul (the oversoul)
  • 22. Reincarnation: The evidence
    • The evidence for possession as an alternative to reincarnation
    • The early church and the history of reincarnation in the West
    • Past Life Regression
    • Is reincarnation really a part of God’s plan?
      • Why would a soul choose to reincarnate?
      • The Pitfalls of Reincarnation
      • If a soul reincarnates, what happens to the old personality?
      • The ultimate fate of old personalities 
  • 23. The Cross Correspondences
  • 24. The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism Page 1
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 2
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 3
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 4
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 5
    • The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 6
    • The Fox sisters: Original report of the Hydesville Haunting
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14 exorcim

The dynamics of exorcism and prayer

It is important to remember that all physical interactions between spiritual entities and earthly persons or objects requires a source of EARTHLY energy.  It is also important to understand that only positive spiritual entities can deal directly with malignant spiritual entities.  In other words, it is not possible for a living person, no matter who they are, to coerce or affect the behavior of an evil spirit without the intervention of a good spirit powerful enough to do battle with it. This is the case even if the angelic spirit never acknowledges its presence.

Therefore, in order to expel a demon from an earthly environment (or from the body of a possessed person), an exorcist must first summon one or more good spirits AND then provide the earthly spiritual energy necessary for the good spirit to compel the evil spirit to leave.

This same dynamic operates in ALL physical interactions of a living person and ANY spiritual entity.  By “physical, I am referring to any spiritual entity that can be seen, heard or display psychokinetic effects in an earthly environment.  Every earthly manifestation of Spirit within the material world requires a source of earthly energy.  (See chapter 12 for more on earthly sources of energy.)  Thus, any person wishing for a physical earthly intervention by God, an angel, a saint, their long dead great grandmother or even a demon or the devil must therefore provide the emotional/spiritual energy to allow that intervention.    In the VERY energetic spiritual battle of exorcism, the emotional energy involved in the ritual is the key.   

The power of any prayer or ritual resides NOT in the words of that prayer or the ritual itself, but in the intention, sincerity and the emotional intensity behind it.   While the words help to concentrate and crystallize the exorcist’s thoughts, the sincerity of the prayer “aims” the request for help toward one or more angelic entities that the exorcist needs to contact in order to fight the demon.  The emotional intensity of the prayer or ritual then provides the ammunition that the spiritual entity needs to enter the earthly sphere and fight the battle.  It is the angelic entity that the exorcist summons that actually fights the entity, and not the exorcist him/herself. 

Thus, the power behind an exorcism ritual lies in the ability of the exorcist and his or her team to direct enough spiritual/emotional energy (ammunition) towards their spiritual allies to procure a decisive victory over the enemy.

The spiritual laws are universal.  The same principles operate when a Satanic practitioner or a voodoo priest casts an evil spell or curse.  The “magic words” of the curse mean little.  The ability to summon and empower a demonic entity lies in the witch’s sincere intent.

There are two types of exorcism; major and minor.  

Minor exorcisms

Minor exorcisms (called “supplicating” exorcisms in the Catholic Church) take the form of a blessing. According to the Catholic church, a minor exorcism can be carried out by virtually anyone, including lay persons not directly involved with the church.  A minor exorcism can be done by any priest without the permission of his or her bishop. The most common church-sanctioned minor exorcism is the Christian rite of baptism which is meant to cleanse the soul of any “original” sin which might invite evil later in life.  Another common form of minor exorcism is the Sacrament of Penance which is the method by which individual men and women may confess sins committed after baptism and have them absolved by a priest.  

A third type of minor exorcism is a blessing intended to clear an infested house of ghosts or demons.  The church has specialized prayers short of exorcism designed to rid a property of demonic presences.  One in particular is the Exorcism Prayer of Pope Leo XIII, which includes a Prayer to Saint Michael, the Archangel. This and other prayers are often carried out by non-specialist clergy, who sprinkle holy water in each corner of every room in the house and recite ritualized prayers. Outside of the Catholic Church, minor exorcisms may be performed by shamans, white witches or knowledgeable psychics, who say prayers while burning sage (smudging) and pouring kosher salt in strategic locations around the house. These are referred to as binding rituals.  While binding rituals can be executed by lay persons, it is imperative that whoever carries it out be both pious and very experienced in the rituals.  Anyone with a cavalier attitude who attempts a binding ritual in a truly demon infested dwelling may find themselves attacked by the entity.

A fourth type of minor exorcism is called a deliverance.  Deliverances are less formal forms of exorcism in which a group of people combine their prayers and spiritual mindset to rid a person or a place of infecting spirits.  Sometimes an ordained minister leads the group, but this is not always the case as the major ingredient of the deliverance is group prayer.  Deliverances are frequently successful, but mostly work to rid victims or places of human entities.  In order to make the deliverance fully successful, the host (victim) generally continues to attend religious services or counseling to maintain a proper mindset to inoculate him or her from re-infection.   Deliverances are rarely permanently successful against demonic infections, and because they are often carried out by persons with little knowledge of the entities they are trying to expel, they can be harmful in some cases.

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