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 Judgement 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 In the spiritual world
    • Time in the planes of illusion
    • Memory in the planes of illusion
    • 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
        • Human 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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Allan Kardec and the Spirits’ Book

Recap of previous page: After the birth of Spiritualism in 1848, Millions of people began consulting the spirits through Ouija boards, table tipping, and mediums.

Thousands of spirits were consulted, and these in turn gave advice to many and sundry people.  Although reincarnation was, and remains a basic component of Hinduism, Buddhism and other eastern religions, it seems to have been a subject that the spirits in the early nineteenth century never really discussed with their western audience.  Neither Swedenborg nor any of his spirit friends believed in reincarnation.  However, things began to change after 1857 with the publication of The Spirits’ Book by a famous French educator named Denizard-Hyppolyte-Leon Rivail, who wrote under the pen name Allan Kardec.  He was the Carl Sagan of his day.

Rivail was descended from generations of lawyers and magistrates.  He was a born educator.  He gave immensely successful lectures on astronomy chemistry, physics and anatomy and became a learned member of all the scientific societies.  In 1855, when he was fifty years old, he reluctantly attended a séance where he was astonished to see tables dancing and moving around the room.  There was no doubt in his mind that the table did move independently without input from the people surrounding it because in some instances, the participants were standing with only their fingertips lightly touching the table top.  By means of tapping a table leg on the floor while responding to the alphabet spoken by one of the participants, the table could answer questions.  Rivail was bemused, but not convinced.  It had been seven years since the manifestations at the Fox residence in Hydesville New York, and the spiritualist craze was in full blossom.  People all over the western hemisphere were having séances and table tipping parties.  During this period, fraudulent mediums were being exposed bilking people out of their life savings, and it was easy to assume that people who believed in spirits were simply caught up in a widespread fad.

Allan Kardec

Up to that point, Rivail had been a serious skeptic, and was alarmed at the popular fixation on spirits and mediums, but his skepticism had been seriously undermined by his table tipping experience.  While attending the table tipping party, he was invited to attend another party at the home of a gentleman who had two daughters who were said to be trance mediums.  Rivail didn’t know what to make of trances or mediums.  These two were “society” girls and they had a reputation for frivolous behavior.  Rivail didn’t expect anything but silly entertainment.  At the party, he found what he expected; two rather pretty party girls who could produce automatic writing while in a trance.  Ordinarily, their writings were on frivolous subjects as befit their personalities, and so one might assume that they too were deluded simpletons like everyone else who believed in Spirits. 

But when the sisters wrote with Rivail present, their writings were of an altogether more serious and esoteric nature.  The writings appeared to be well beyond the knowledge and intellectual level of the girls themselves, and more on the intellectual level that Rivail was used to dealing with in academic circles.  When the communicator was asked why its replies were so much more profound than anything that had previously been transmitted through the girls, it explained that spirits of a much higher order had come expressly for him so that he could fulfill a religious mission. These spirits said that they would dictate the inner workings of the spiritual universe to Rivail who, in turn, would publicize their message for the betterment of mankind.  Thus began a long series of trance sittings with numerous mediums during which Rivail began a quest to unveil the inner workings of the spiritual world. 

Rivail is said to have brought to each session a series of questions concerning doctrinal and structural issues about the afterlife.  Altogether, there were over a thousand of them and they included questions concerning reincarnation.  The spirits answered that reincarnation was an intrinsic property of the higher spheres.  

Rivail was now completely won over and wrote a book based on the answers to the questions that he posed to these learned spirits.  The Spirits’ Book was an immediate success.  Rivail continued to write and to pursue confirmation of the spirits’ revelations.  He wrote his books under the pen name of Allan Kardec.  This was the name of one of his past-life personalities as revealed to him by two mediums he later employed.

He enlisted a total of ten mediums who did not know or communicate with each other.  In the end, he concluded that as a group, the mediums demonstrated unlearned skills such as writing by illiterate mediums, handwriting similar to the alleged communicating personality, and speaking or writing in a language unknown to the medium (xenoglossia and xenographia).  The mediums also provided verifiable information unknown to themselves or others present. 

The Spirits’ Book and Rivail’s four other books were especially popular in Brazil, where they became integrated into an existing spiritual belief system based partly on Catholicism and partly on voodoo.  Spiritism, also called Kardecism, is the name given to this composite belief system, and it is still the most widespread religious belief in Brazil.  (Note that Spiritism is not the same as Spiritualism) Today, there are Spiritist societies scattered all over the world.  Note that Western spiritualists who believe in reincarnation often call themselves “Spiritists”, which is a term not to be confused with the religion of Spiritism in Brazil.

As the belief in reincarnation spread, those who believed in an invisible spiritual world became split into two competing camps. One camp, the Spiritists, believed in reincarnation, and one, the Spiritualists, denied reincarnation.

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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.

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