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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Demonology

Before I begin this section, it is important to emphasize that a large number of mediums and psychics may work their entire careers without ever encountering a demon or even an evil human spirit.  Other mediums actually specialize in them.  It was this dichotomy that ultimately led me to write this book.  I cover this subject because everyone has a right to understand both sides of the issue.

Even among mystics who deal with demons and evil human spirits, many, both ancient and modern, deny that the demon we call Satan and his underlings are actually primordial angels.  Their view is that even the most evil of inhabitants of Hell are simply ancient human spirits who have abandoned all semblance of goodness and the light of God.  As a result, they have created the Hellish environments in which they exist.  From our point of view, however, it makes little difference whether the devil and his minions are actually evil angels or simply extremely evil but powerful human spirits.  Either way, the result is the same.  Evil is evil, no matter its origins.

Demonologist Ed Warren was one of seven American demonologists consulted by Catholic, protestant, Jewish and other religious authorities to investigate virtually thousands of possible demonic possessions.  He, and his wife, psychic Loraine Warren had been doing this job since the late 1940’s.  Ed was the only non-clergy demonologist in the US at that time.  He reported that between 1970 and 1980 there were over 600 major exorcisms carried out in North America alone.  That comes out to more than one major exorcism every week.  There is no estimate of how many major exorcisms are performed today, but there is no doubt that the number is a great deal higher!  Every major religion has its own ritual of exorcism.  This is not just a superstition left over from medieval times.  It’s an everyday necessity.

Therefore, all major religions employ specialist clergy to perform exorcisms.  By the time Ed Warren died, the Catholic Church employed at least 10 official exorcists around the United States, and judging by news reports, there are probably many more in recent years.  According to newspaper reports, the Vatican recently had to put on a dedicated exorcist training convention to keep up with demand.  

In the Jewish faith, exorcism is conducted by a rabbi functioning as an exorcist reading from the Holy Torah while customarily being assisted by a minyan of ten pious men from the temple.  Native Americans have shamans who specialize in exorcising evil spirits.  Although the Catholic church is slowly dying under the weight of its ancient politics and the severe consequences of the priest sexual scandal, large numbers of other Christian organizations have stepped up to offer exorcism services.  There are at least five or six hundred evangelical exorcism ministries in operation today, and possibly many times that number.

Out of the thousands of exorcisms carried out by various organizations today, it is impossible to say how many of them actually involve real demonic entities and how many are due to suggestion or mental illness.  Secularists and atheists argue that they are all due to hysteria and suggestion, but exorcists who have had years of experience say that they can tell the difference within a few hours.  They know by the victim’s violent reaction to hidden sacred objects, paranormal phenomena, visual, aural and olfactory cues and plain common sense if they are dealing with a demon or with a hysteric.  Even so, the Catholic Church spends a great deal of time vetting their cases before committing an exorcist.  They usually require a psychiatric evaluation or at least authorization of a church approved demonologist before consenting to assign an official exorcist. 

There is certainly enough overt evidence to suggest that demons exist as primordial entities.  Angels are more subtle. They seldom make obvious appearances in our world, although they do make overt appearances during the more violent exorcisms.    

For the believers, God is the ultimate consumer of the output of the spiritual factory, and He has a number of mechanisms to propel the evolving souls of human beings along.  Demons act as “rods” to prod (or beat) souls in the right direction.  The Angels act as “staffs” to pull them along.  The angels tend to remain in the background while the demons are more likely to make stark appearances in our world because of their narcissistic and violent natures.

While the spirits of evil human beings get all of their energy from a combination of individual living psychic agents and environmental sources, demons appear to obtain the energy they need to manifest in the earth environment through the demonic hierarchy, which in turn gets its energy en masse from the more evil and depraved sectors of the human race.  It is unfortunate that there is a never-ending supply.

Sidenote: This dichotomy of source accounts for the difference in the energy displayed by demons versus ghosts.  Earthbound human spirits, even those of  enormously evil people, must source their energy from the local environment and from individual human sources.  Thus the violence of their psychokinetic antics is limited to the throwing of small stones, moving small objects or the movement of tables during seances.  Demonic entities, on the other hand, source their energy through the demonic hierarchy which gets its energy from the accumulation of all the evil people currently living on earth.  Thus the violence they can wreak in one of their hauntings is magnitudes greater than that seen in ordinary ghost hauntings.

Catholic demonology presents what appears to be a fairly accurate description of the demonic hierarchy.  Note that Catholic demonology is not scriptural in nature, but is a separate compilation of knowledge about the dark world of the Devil gained over centuries of experience.  The structure of the demonic world looks like a dark and backwards mirror image of the heavenly hierarchy.

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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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