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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Edgar Cayce and Atlantis

Note: The Structure of Heaven is a 325-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.

There were, however, other things about Cayce’s readings that I was never able to believe (aside from the quackery of the treatments themselves)!  These apparent contradictions spurred an interest in discovering just why so much of what Cayce had produced was proven accurate, but some seemed, (to me at least), completely unbelievable.

During the course of his career, Cayce began to deliver numerous “life readings.”  Cayce’s spirits talked incessantly about reincarnation, in spite of the fact that Cayce himself was raised a fundamentalist Christian and did not believe in reincarnation.  Since he did not remember anything he said in trance, when he was later told about what he had conveyed, he at first refused to believe that these words had come out of his own mouth.  Only after much prodding by his spirits was he persuaded to accept reincarnation as a spiritual doctrine.  It was not the idea of reincarnation that I found unbelievable, but the fact that so many people seemed to have had past lives on the sunken continent of Atlantis!

Atlantis was first described by Plato in the fifth century B.C (He was born about the year 428 BC and lived to age 80).  He described Atlantis in his dialogues as an advanced Utopian society.  It can be safely assumed that Plato himself heard about Atlantis in folktales that were widespread in Greece during his lifetime.  

Modern archaeologists attribute these folktales to the Minoan civilization, which had been in existence during the Bronze Age.  It was a civilization that arose first on the Aegean island of Crete, about 65 miles off the southern tip of the Greek mainland.  It flourished between 3000 and 1450 B.C., at least a thousand years before Plato’s birth.  It was an incredibly successful and wealthy Bronze Age civilization.  Its livelihood was based on its mastery of the sea and its relatively advanced fleet of ships.  It controlled all commerce between the numerous Aegean islands and most of the lands bordering the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

For all its success, the entire Minoan civilization went into decline between 1650 and 1450 BC, finally ending in 1100 BC.  This was due to the catastrophic eruption of a huge volcano that lurked under the island of Thera, which today is known as the island of Santorini.  Santorini lies only 73 miles off the coast of Crete, and the volcanic eruption was absolutely huge.  The eruption, which happened in 1650 BC, is estimated to have been four times the size of the famous eruption of Mt Krakatoa in 1883.  After the eruption, a large part of the island of Thera sank beneath the sea, and this probably gave rise to the myth of the sinking of Atlantis.  

The resulting ash fall and tsunami would have devastated human settlements on virtually all the Greek islands and mainland coastlines surrounding the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.  In addition, because of the atmospheric cooling caused by sulfur emissions spewed out by the volcano, the climate would have become cold, dry and very inhospitable for several years, interrupting farming and causing widespread famine.  The loss of life would have been catastrophic, and the event would have been shrouded in myth ten centuries later when Plato wrote his dialogues.  This is almost certainly the source of the stories that Plato wrote about.

Plato’s mythical stories of Atlantis became quite a hot topic during the Renaissance because of writers like Roger Bacon and Thomas Moore.  Plato was required reading for scholars in those days, and Bacon and Moore were the era’s preeminent philosophers.  From there, mythology upon mythology was invented about the mythical land of Atlantis.  By Cayce’s time, it had been embellished to the point of absurdity, and Cayce’s spirits were telling people that they led past lives flying prehistoric airplanes and manufacturing electronics on an ancient long-gone continent.  No one until very recent times understood that Atlantis was really an island that “sank” as a result of a volcano.  Plato himself attributed the sinking of Atlantis and the demise of the Atlantean civilization to the moral bankruptcy and debauched behavior of its inhabitants.  Cayce’s spirits believed this fantasy.  

In short, it was because of this nonsense that I began my quest to discover just how a psychic who could deliver such accurate information about people living thousands of miles away could also produce such rubbish.  The book you are reading is a sort of culmination of that effort.  It was because of Atlantis that I eventually learned how otherwise good spirits could be so sincerely mistaken about some things, and yet uncannily correct about others.  

Spirits of the dead are really no different from the people they were before they died.  They may have been fabulous doctors, teachers and artisans; they may have been good and honest people; but they were burdened with the mythologies of their day as well as their personal obsessions, all of which they took with them into Spirit when they died.  Cayce’s spirits were no different.  If the spirit doctors had stuck to their diagnosis and prescriptions, they would have been more believable because they could actually demonstrate their expertise in clairvoyance and psychic healing.  But when they expanded into opining on spiritual doctrines and supposed past lives, no documentation could either prove or disprove their points, and later satellite observation, archeology and geology has shown that their sunken continent of Atlantis is just a fanciful myth.  

Skeptics love to point out discrepancies like these to prove that people who believe in spirit are just naive suckers.  They get away with it because most of the people who believe in an afterlife make the assumption that after a person dies, he or she becomes privy to all the secrets of the universe.  You can see that this is simply not true.  Some of those spirits have evil intentions and will lie for their own benefit.  Others, with good intentions, are not omniscient.  Even though the average spirit may be more psychically aware than they were when they occupied a living body, they are still the same “people” they were before they died, and just as limited in their overall knowledge and understanding.

The lesson of this chapter is that everything a spirit says cannot really be taken as fact.  This goes for virtually all channeled material that purports to tell people how to live their lives, and what spiritual doctrines to believe.  Spiritual pronouncements that take sides on any disputed political or moral question are either lower spirits with an agenda pretending to be channeling higher wisdom, or they are simply the subconscious beliefs of a deluded psychic. 

There are a lot of books written by psychics channeling famous spirits.  Don’t take this channeled wisdom as some sort of ultimate truth.  If the information coming through a single spirit seems more like pop culture or politically correct verbiage, or if the “truths” spilling forth from the psychic’s writings seems too good to be true, or too confirmatory of conventional wisdom, then there is something very wrong with that wisdom.

Keep in mind that ancient wisdom looks nothing like modern wisdom.  In another 200 years, our conventional wisdom will be as outdated as the conventional wisdom received by Emanuel Swedenborg in the eighteenth century when he received his revelations from spirits who advised him about life on other planets.  The spirits were very earnest.  They waxed poetic about Jesus’ interactions with the people who live on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the moon. The spirits really believed it, and Swedenborg had no reason to doubt it. This mythology was conventional wisdom in some circles before and during Swedenborg’s lifetime.  (Swedenborg wrote “Earths in the Universe” about this very subject.  You can download it as a PDF from the website of the Swedenborg foundation.)

Real spiritual wisdom is imparted in very subtle ways through your own conscience.  You can discover it yourself if you listen carefully to that small voice and learn to dig through the conventional wisdom that shrouds it.  Just don’t go digging for it with a Ouija board!

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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.

If you have a question for me, you can email me at: author@thestructureofheaven.com. Be aware, however, that the answer to almost all your questions concerning this subject are best found by downloading the e-book or purchasing the paperback direct from Amazon.com

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