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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5. The Structure of Heaven

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I’ll admit, it’s difficult to sell Hell, but even for the souls that dwell  there, Hell is not forever.  In the end, the hells are just the lower planes of the same heaven in which God dwells.  The reason evil souls descend to these levels is a matter of spiritual physics.  Their behaviors and attitudes make them too spiritually heavy to rise in the spiritual atmosphere, and they sink like stones in the ocean.  The hells are of their own making and exist for their own  benefit.  The laws pertaining to the souls in the hells are the same as the spiritual laws that pertain to the souls in the highest planes.  The souls there can evolve in the same way that souls in the highest heavenly planes can evolve.  Free will is the key in the hells, the same as it is for those in the planes closest to God.  There’s no Judgment in Heaven. There’s no reward or punishment for a soul’s incarnated behavior.  There are only NATURAL laws, as immutable as our laws of physics, and which all spirits must obey.  

Many famous modern mediums have written books denying that there really are Hellish levels in the spiritual world.  Some even question the existence of any form of “structure” at all within the spiritual realm.  These are good psychics and honest people.  They place their trust in humanity’s “natural goodness” and a benign universe.  They reject all dualities, including the duality of good and evil.  

The definition of  “Humanity’s natural goodness” depends upon the social conditioning of the humanity in question.  I’m sure the Germans who tortured and slaughtered 6 million Jews and 2 million other undesirables were naturally good people before they became caught up in Nazi ideology.  Pol Pot and thousands of Khmer Rouge followers murdered 2 million Cambodians, and Mao Zedong inspired millions of otherwise good Chinese teenagers and young adults to murder as many as 100 million of their fellow citizens.  Serial socialist leaders of Russia including Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin along with thousands of their “useful idiots” killed millions more in failed collective farming and industrialization schemes which lead to widespread famine and economic collapse.  It’s easy to think of all these people as evil monsters, but they were only following the dictates of the “political correctness” of their day

I’ll admit, it’s difficult to sell Hell, but even for these souls, Hell is not forever.  In the end, the hells are just the lower planes of the same heaven in which God dwells.  The reason evil souls descend to these levels is a matter of spiritual physics.  The hells are of their own making and exist for their own  benefit.  The laws pertaining to the souls in the hells are the same as the spiritual laws that pertain to the souls in the highest plane.  The souls there can evolve there in the same way that souls in the highest heavenly planes can evolve.  Free will is the key in the hells, the same as it is for those in the planes closest to God.  There’s no Judgement in Heaven. There’s no reward or punishment for a soul’s incarnated behavior.  There are only NATURAL laws, as immutable as our laws of physics, and which all spirits must obey. 


Heaven is a very, very large place. When I speak of Heaven, I do not mean only the parts of the spiritual realm where good spirits dwell.  I also include the “Hellish” planes in which evil minded, self-centered spirits reside.  This may seem counterintuitive.  After all, Heaven and Hell must be different realms run by different management!  Actually….No!

Even though these spiritual planes differ drastically in the type of spirits they contain and the environments that the resident spirits experience, the spiritual laws that apply to both the heavens and the hells are identical. The hells are simply the lower reaches of heaven!

The spirits on both the Heavenly and the Hellish planes actually have the same opportunities for advancement.  Spirits in both areas can communicate instantly by thought, and travel instantly within their realms by thinking of where they want to go.  They all have the same potential to create their spiritual environment through the power of their own imaginations in much the same way that creative living persons first imagine, and then build their own homes.  They all have the same potential to evolve.

The difference between the higher and lower planes is produced exclusively by the spiritual qualities and habits possessed by the spirits that reside there.  Hell may not seem much like Heaven, but it is, in fact, part of the same spiritual city, in the same way that big cities have wealthy business and tourist centers with nice restaurants and theaters, but also harbor impoverished slums with crime, drugs, prostitution and violence!

We do not know just how large the spiritual world is, or how many actual planes it contains.  This is partly because many spiritual experiences appear to be ineffable, and partly because communication from spirits claiming to be from the higher realms tends to be quite inconsistent.  “Ineffable” means that the environments and other qualities of these planes lie beyond our ability to sense, and are not describable in human language.  Imagine trying to describe the difference between the colors red and blue to a person who has been blind all his life.

Stainton Moses (1839–1892), perhaps the most famous medium of the nineteenth century (and the most skeptical—he was a Baptist minister) was told by Imperator, his main spirit communicator, that there were twenty-one spiritual levels including our material sphere.  According to Moses, there are seven levels below the earth sphere (the “spheres of sin”—what we would call hells), seven levels from the earth sphere and above, which he called the spheres of work and probation, and finally another seven above the probationary spheres, called the spheres of contemplation in which formerly earthly souls become more and more like God.  According to Stainton Moses, the seven probationary spheres are the only ones from which communication with earthly mediums takes place.

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Science, Math and God

Science, Math and God is the companion book, originally written as a preface to The Structure of Heaven. It's a book that explains why the skeptics are wrong, and why modern science no longer rules out the paranormal. Learn why God now has a place to live. (Also available as an eBook and paperback at Amazon.com)

The Lower Reaches of Heaven

The Lower Reaches of Heaven is a modern rendition of an of an old book; Thirty Years Among The Dead by Dr. Carl Wickland. It is essential reading if you want to understand Earthbound Spirits and the dynamics of their environment. It also contains lots of editorial comment and historical facts, as well insight into how ghosts think.

The Structure of Heaven is a 350 page book that can be downloaded from Amazon.com in kindle format by clicking here. It is also available in paperback format by clicking here.

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