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 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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3. God and Theodicy

This chapter deals with the theological aspects of the spiritual world. For those readers who came here looking for an entirely secular explanation of ghosts, exorcism, and psychic phenomena, please remember that I began my own quest to understand these things as an avowed secularist myself.  However, I was never able to avoid the question of God.  

About God

God is not a “person”.  God is not a man.  God is not a “being”.  God is pure consciousness! God does not live in any particular part of heaven.  God “permeates” the spiritual and material worlds.  God is really that divine “spark” that lies within you that makes you who you are.   I use the conventional pronoun “He”, not to denote gender, for God has none, but simply to denote His parenthood of human consciousness.  God has none of the petty desires or needs that we, as members of the human race, are subject to.  He doesn’t care if you believe in him or not.  He does not demand that we “worship” him!  (It doesn’t seem likely that an entity powerful enough to create a universe of matter and populate it with living souls would have any self-esteem issues.)  

God isn’t interested in your sex life.  He doesn’t care about all the things we argue about and see on the evening news.  Sex, politics and the regulation of our civil society are important to US as human beings.  The stability and future of our civilization depends upon how we handle them.  But God put us here to work these things out for ourselves.  Civilizations come, and civilizations go, but people and their relationships with God endure.  

In the words of author Stafford Betty, humility, kindness, honesty, courage, forgiveness, self-control, dedication to purpose and self-sacrifice within your own life are the golden traits that God most appreciates.  Please note that every one of these traits spring from the universal good we call love!

God is not Justice.  Justice is a human invention and infers both reward and punishment.  Neither of these applies in the world of spirit.  There is NO JUDGEMENT in Spirit except that which individual souls apply to themselves.

You cannot understand ghosts, demons, angels, spirits or human souls without understanding why they exist in the first place. Without God, the spiritual world would fall to chaos, for nothing would separate the bright spirits from the dark.  Without God there would be no ghosts; no demons; no angels; no heaven; no Hell; and, if you understand the implications of modern physics, you’ll understand that there would be no material universe either.  

God is no closer to the spirits in the astral world than He is to us.  You do not see Him when you die, and He does not stand in judgement of you.  Honest spirits never speak of seeing God in human form.  They never speak of “seeing” Him at all.  He is, after all, not a material being.  He is pure consciousness!  Even so, all spirits sense His presence much more acutely than we do.  For them, He is present in every aspect of their existence.  The famous medium Jane Roberts channeled the following from the spirit of William James, perhaps the most famous American philosopher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.  Here, the deceased James is speaking of God from his own vantage point in the world of Spirit:

Nowhere have I encountered the furnishings of a conventional heaven, or glimpsed the face of God.  On the other hand, certainly I dwell in a psychological heaven by earth’s standards, for everywhere I sense a presence that is well-intentioned, gentle yet powerful, and all-knowing.  This seems to be a psychological presence and of such stunning parts, however, that I can point to no one place and identify it as being there in contrast to being somewhere else.  At the risk of understating, this presence seems more like a loving condition that permeates existence, and from which all existence springs.

Biblical revelations aside, God does not speak aloud to anyone, living or spirit.  Any statement from a psychic, mystic or anyone else that implies that he or she has received instructions direct from God is false.

People who enrich the lives of others by increasing the earthly supply of love, kindness, honesty, courage, forgiveness, compassion, wisdom, knowledge, beauty and freedom are inching closer to God just living their lives and doing their jobs.  God is not vengeful, or prone to anger.  Vengeance and anger are the provinces of PEOPLE motivated by darkness.  These qualities have prominent places in ancient religion and within the world of matter, but in the world of Spirit, they exist only in those realms occupied by the spirits who have committed very evil acts and are emptied of God’s light. 

God does, however, care about our individual personal behavior insofar as it affects other people.  He created us for a purpose, and how each of us develops as a human being is of prime importance to Him.  His two major rules are that we treat each other as we ourselves would want to be treated, and that we learn from our mistakes.  

God is not a static entity.  He is a living being and continues to grow through us.  Insofar as we are all tiny sparks struck off from His body, each and every one of us is His child, and His parenthood of us means that He is a personal god.  You do not need a church, a temple or a clergyman to intervene on your behalf.  You can speak to God directly.  And God speaks back to you! Not through words muttered into your ears, but subtly, through feelings, sensations and through that tiny voice you call your conscience.  

He also speaks to you through the voices and actions of other people.  Neither you nor the other person might realize at the time that there was any form of divine support, but sometime later, even years later you may think back to that event and realize that had it not been for that incident, your life might have been drastically different.

God is the embodiment of all positive attributes.  He is the sum of all the souls who have ever lived and ever will live.  He is the opposite of chaos, the opposite of evil, the opposite of anarchy.  He is best described as the distillation of wisdom and love. 

God gives us something beyond trivialities to strive for.  Without God, there can be no serious purpose behind human existence other than striving to overcome our existential suffering so we can enjoy “sex, drugs and rock n roll.” 

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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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