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
  • 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 and Minor
    • 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?
      • 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
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Entities that invade the minds of the living

Van Dusen’s descriptions of the voices of the lower order correspond exactly with Swedenborg’s devils.  They are like drunken bums at a bar.  They make fun of the patient and do their best to torment him. They know what the patient is thinking and use his or her thoughts to their own advantage.  They often torment the patient for years on end.  They take good memories and make them appear evil.  They make death threats and falsely foretell disaster.  They give advice, and then mock the patient for following it.  They can cause physical deformities and cripple a patient in various ways by working on a body part until they “possess” it.  An example of this reported by Van Dusen was a voice that worked on a patient’s eye which eventually went out of alignment.  They can even cause pain as a way to enforce their will.

Low order voices can disrupt a patient’s natural thought processes by shouting at random times.  They never have, or admit to a personal identity.  They do not seem to have stores of knowledge of their own, and must dig the knowledge out of the patient’s memory in order to torment him.  In this respect, they seem to possess nothing more than ill-defined urges to do whatever damage they can.

Many of them are ignorant of their own status and believe that the patient’s body is their own, and that the patient’s soul is the invader.  They are extremely irreligious, or overtly anti-religious.  Some describe themselves as demons from Hell, or even as Satan himself.  Some insist that they are Jesus Christ, but their bragging and evil thoughts make it apparent that they are of the lower order.  Finally, they lie about virtually everything.

There can be many such malevolent entities, all “living” in a patient’s mind and exerting their will separately or as a group.  This is reminiscent of Jesus’ possessed patient.  When he queried the demon on its name, the reply was “’Legion”, for many demons had entered into him.”  It is also consistent with Dr. Wickland’s experiences (chapter 10).  He treated many cases in which he had to remove multiple spirits from individual patients.

Van Dusen’s description of the higher order corresponds exactly with Swedenborg’s description of angels.  Higher order hallucinations are much rarer than low order hallucinations.  Van Dusen found that fewer than about 20% of reported hallucinations were helpful, or “angelic.”  High order personalities seldom speak, preferring instead to communicate in symbols and visions.  They do not intrude unbidden on the patient’s consciousness or his freedom, and respect his or her privacy, withdrawing if they frighten the patient.  

In direct contrast to the lower order, the higher order tends to be religious.  They help and instruct the patient rather than frighten and dominate him or her.  They communicate with the patient’s feelings rather than speaking audibly.  They are much more powerful than entities of the lower order and appear to have power over them.  

Unlike the lower order, they possess vast stores of knowledge of their own; frequently well beyond the knowledge possessed by the patient.  They act more like teachers, helping to expand the patient’s knowledge, elevating and enlarging his or her ideals, values and modes of thinking.  They are akin to wise and kind teachers who’s only wish is to help their students.  

Although the higher order has power over the lower order, they do not generally interfere directly with them except at times when the patient him or herself is “ready” to receive a positive lesson.  Why this is so is something of a mystery, although the higher order entities tell Van Dusen that the lower order DO have a function in that they illuminate the patient’s faults, presumably to allow the patient to correct them.  

Emanuel Swedenborg would agree:

“There is such conjunction between the spiritual world and the natural world in man that the two are seemingly one… [It is] provided that there should be angels and spirits with each individual.”  With every individual there are good spirits and evil spirits… by the two he is kept in equilibrium, and being in equilibrium he is in freedom.”

“Good and evil are two opposites.  Unless man were between these two he could have no thought nor any will, still less any freedom or any choice, for all these man has by virtue of the equilibrium between good and evil..”..

“Every man in respect to his Spirit, even while he is living in the body, is in some society with spirits although he does not know it”

Emanuel Swedenborg
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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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