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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Introduction

Anyone who watches modern television shows about ghosts, haunted houses, exorcisms and demons can’t help but be terrified about the prospect of death followed by an afterlife.  And, it’s not just television shows and movies.  Throughout literary history, these subjects have been used to titillate and scare people.  

Worse yet, traditional religions use images of Hell to bind their believers and frighten disbelievers.  This implies that after you die, you might live a scary existence, possibly ruled by evil spirits.  It is frankly easier for many modern people to block all thoughts of death from their minds and proclaim atheism and postmortem annihilation as their faith than it is to contemplate an eternally evil existence after the demise of their bodies.

On the other hand, most famous modern psychics, particularly TV psychics that deal in bereavement, paint an entirely rosy picture of the afterlife in which virtually everyone, no matter who they were in life continues on in an afterlife of eternal contentment and happiness.  It’s all roses and lollipops. 

So which is it? The horrors of a ghostly existence?  Or do you get to spend eternity in the lap of luxury no matter who you are or what you did in life?  It was this dichotomy and the fact that no one has ever tried to bridge this historical gap in the “history” of the world of Spirit that began my quest to formulate a workable “Structure of Heaven”.  It is based on historical and modern spiritual literature, but excludes biblical scripture for reasons I will explain.  

I have approached this subject as a person who is devoted to a scientific exploration of the material world, but also one who has found that a spiritual world exists even though it can’t be explored by science for the very good reason that science has no means by which to measure it.  This book presents the case for an invisible spiritual realm based on real world, modern evidence rather than on biblical writings.  The evidence is incomplete, and may at times seem contradictory, but it always points in the same direction.  

Life continues in spiritual form after the death of the body, 

The spiritual world has a definite stratified structure with invariant (unchanging) spiritual laws, 

The conditions we experience on our material earth mirror the conditions found in the spiritual realm.  

By the way, it is important to stress that some of the most famous modern mediums have written books denying that there really are Hellish levels in the spiritual world. Unfortunately the dark histories of malignant ghosts and demonic possession belie this cheerful spiritual picture.

In the way of warning prospective readers, this book pulls no punches.  It speaks of the Hells as well as the heavens because it is not possible to understand the structure of heaven without understanding the nature of evil as well as the nature of God.  You will be relieved, however, to find in the end that the Hells are NOT forever.  They are not even meant as punishments.  EVERY soul, even those in the darkest of Hells can find their way back to God.  It’s just a matter of free will!

It is much easier to sell Heaven than it is to sell Hell.  For a lot of people, the idea of a spiritual afterlife that actually contains any real “negativity” which isn’t a mere annoyance encountered by some souls on their way to eternal happiness conflicts with everything they want to believe about spiritual life.  The very prospect may be enough to stop some from exploring further.  Keep in mind, however, that the hells are simply the lower levels of the same Heaven that the souls in the summerlands occupy.  The laws pertaining to the souls occupying the darker planes are the same laws that pertain to the the souls occupying the highest planes.  In addition, only VERY evil souls will descend to these less appealing levels. If you are reading this, you are probably not one of them.

The entire point of writing this book has been to reassure EVERYONE of the truly benign nature of the intelligence that created the Hells in the first place.  They are not places of eternal torment.  Nor are they “permanent”.  They are really just places where a spirit must confront “reflections” of their own evil in ways that will bring about true reformation of the soul.  Afterwards, almost all will eventually find their own paths to God.  

What follows is meant to be a rational guide to the spiritual world. This isn’t an officially “accepted” version of the world of Spirit.  Nor is this an attempt to “prove” that God exists.   It’s not a book filled with philosophical or religious meditations.  There’s no self-help advice or instructions on how to become a psychic.  It’s simply a comprehensive and scientifically oriented guidebook detailing the structure of the spiritual realm, how it interlaces and interacts with the material world and why those interactions are so equivocal and difficult to pin down. Taken all together, this is a hopeful and happy message to those who sense that there is more to their existence as a human being than being born into an inherently dangerous world and dying an uncertain death in an unknown future.  It’s a more optimistic way of looking at what happens to your mind after you breathe your last breath.  I’m here to tell you that no one lives forever, but no one ever really dies!

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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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