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

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One of the most interesting examples of this sort of “truth mixed with bloviation” can be seen in the example of the seer, Edgar Cayce (pronounced Casey).  Cayce was born in 1877 and died in 1945.  He was probably the most well documented psychic of the 20th century.  While hundreds of books have been written about him, the best one was written in 1942 by Thomas Sugrue titled There Is a River.  It is the only biography that was written during Cayce’s lifetime by someone who actually knew him.  

Cayce was called the “sleeping prophet” because he would allow himself to be hypnotized several times a day, and during these sessions, he would enter into a trance state in which he appeared to be sleeping.  He would then begin to channel the spirits of various dead doctors.  The spirit, speaking through Cayce, would diagnose and prescribe treatment for a patient that might be located thousands of miles away.  Most often, Cayce’s father would act as hypnotist.  After the death of his father, Cayce’s son performed this function. 

Cayce’s spirits were not those of modern doctors, but were an older, more ancient sort.  They were “natural healers” who believed in natural remedies and manipulating bones, like an osteopath or chiropractor.  Cayce would learn about his patients through letters written by the patient, or by relatives requesting help for a loved one.  In most cases, it was a last-ditch effort by these patients because their doctors had given up on curing them.  The patients were totally unknown to Cayce, and many of the letters were written by people who were barely literate.  Often, the only information that was given to him in the letters was a plea for help and the location where the patient resided.  The reading would always begin with a spirit doctor speaking through Cayce; “We have the body.”  

The remedies that were channeled often involved the use of unusual therapies.  Examples included electrotherapy, ultraviolet light, watermelon seed tea, gemstones, castor oil/Epsom salt packs, internal and external use of an iodine product called Atomidine, osteopathic manipulation and relaxation in the “radioactive sand” that the spirits said could be found on beaches like Virginia Beach where Cayce was living.  

In modern medical terms, most of these treatments would be considered useless, but a majority of his patients recovered and went on to live normal lives, even though many were given up as incurable by the physicians of the day.  The success of this sort of treatment helped sow the seeds of the modern industry of alternative medicine which in the early 1940’s had lost most of its ancient cachet because of the enormous strides in scientific medicine that had taken place during and after the First World War.  In Cayce’s hands, however, the high success rate seems to have had more to do with the spirits behind the treatments than to the treatments themselves. 

I was not impressed with the medical advice.  Although his success rate was quite impressive, I personally consider remedies such as these to be “quack” medicine, and the miraculous healings themselves likely had more to do with the spiritual aspects of the cures than the medicines themselves.  

I was, however, immensely impressed with the veridical information that the spirits conveyed about the patients themselves.  Even if a small percentage of this psychically received information about the patients was true, then the existence of psychics and the paranormal HAD to have a basis in fact.

Cayce did not know any of these people but was still able to give an accurate description of the patient’s physical appearance and medical condition even if the patient was located thousands of miles away.  If a wrong location was given, which happened upon occasion, then the wrong information would be forthcoming from the spirits.  The location had to be exact, and in at least one instance, the correct information on the wrong patient came through because the wrong room in the house had been specified in the letter.  Only after the location was corrected could the spirits pick up on the correct patient.  

After properly identifying a patient, Cayce’s “spirit doctors” then proposed a series of treatments which, if carried out exactly as prescribed, generally led to the cure of the patient’s illness.  Wacky or not, the treatments were reported by the patients’ families to have worked, or at least to have relieved symptoms and prolonged the lives of patients.

Cayce was probably the most “prolific” psychic in American history.  Although he had been giving readings since about 1912, his readings were only documented starting in 1923.  Since that time until his death in 1945, between 13,000 and 14,000 readings were documented and are still on file at Cayce’s official foundation, The Association for Research and Enlightenment (the A.R.E.) located at Virginia Beach, Virginia.  It should be noted that Case never charged any of his thousands of patients for his services and supported himself and his family exclusively on donations, mostly from a few wealthy benefactors.  Most of his funding dried up after the 1929 stock market crash, but he was able to survive through smaller donations, though he lived constantly on a financial knife-edge. 

I have to admit that this was the first book that I ever read about the paranormal, and it stoked a lifelong interest that has been with me for over 40 years.  Prior to this time, I had been an agnostic and a “scientist” in all of my beliefs.  Since then, I have retained a complete belief in all things scientific, but have modified my views on reality and “eternity.” 

(Note: Personally, I still rely exclusively on modern medicine.  I am a medical professional myself, and I would never recommend the type of treatments prescribed by Cayce’s spirits for my own patients.)

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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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