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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4. Psychics and mediums- an overview

On October 5, 1930, at 2:05 in the morning, the 777-foot British dirigible R-101 crashed in flames in the woods near the French town of Beauvai.  She was en route to India.  Out of 54 persons aboard, everyone except six crew members were killed.

The R-101 was one of a pair of “lighter than air” airships funded by the British government.  The organizations building these two dirigibles were in a sort of competition to see who could build a better ship.  The ultimate aim was to produce airships for fast transport between the far-flung colonies of the British Empire.  The R-100 was built by a private company and had already made a number of successful flights including a round trip journey across the Atlantic.  

The R-101 was built by the British Air Ministry and was behind schedule.  The original idea of the competition was to prove that the Labor (socialist) government of Ramsay MacDonald could build a better ship faster and more efficiently than one built by the private sector.  So far, the R-101 (the Air Ministry’s ship) was behind schedule and over-budget and the government bureaucrats were desperate to prove that they could still build a bigger and faster ship than the private company who built the R-100. Needless to say, the failure of the R101 was an enormous embarrassment for the government bureaucrats who were backing the R-101.  After the accident, they imposed a news blackout on all technical information pertaining to the crash.

Two days after the crash, medium Eileen Garret had been brought to the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London to hold a séance.  The séance had been arranged by the skeptical researcher Harry Price in an attempt to contact the spirit of the recently deceased Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels.  It was attended by Price, his secretary and a journalist who was to record the session in shorthand and publish an article about it in a national magazine.  Price had a low opinion of mediums, considering most of them to be fakes, but he had a grudging respect for Eileen Garrett.  He was also a vainglorious attention seeker and probably just wanted first dibs on a posthumous interview with Conan Doyle. 

Instead of Doyle, however, they heard a different voice which spoke fast, urgently and brokenly.   It claimed to be the captain of the ill-fated R101, Flight Lieutenant H. Carmichael Irwin.  The stenographer had to struggle to keep up.  What follows appears to be part of the raw transcript of the journalist’s hurriedly scribbled shorthand notes.  

“Too much for her engine’s capacity. Engines too heavy. Airscrews too small. Fuel injection bad and air pump failed. Cooling system bad. Bore capacity bad. Next time with cylinders but bore of engine 1,100 cc’s, but that bore is not enough to raise too heavy load and support weight. It had been known to me on many occasions that the bore capacity was entirely inadequate to the volume of structure. This I had placed again and again before engineer, without being able to enlarge capacity of Diesel twin-valve…It was this that made me on five occasions have to scuttle to safety. This exorbitant scheme of carbon and hydrogen is entirely and absolutely wrong… with the new carbon hydrogen, you will be able to get no altitude worth speaking about… explosion caused by friction in electric storm. Useful lift too small. Gross lift computed badly — inform control panel. And this idea of new elevators totally mad. Elevator jammed. Oil pipe plugged … Flying too low altitude and never could rise. Disposable lift could not be utilized. Load too great for long flight. Same with S.L. 8. (Note: the SL 8 was an obscure German airship) Tell Eckener. Cruising speed bad and ship badly swinging. Severe tension on the fabric, which is chafing. Starboard strakes started. Engines wrong – too heavy — cannot rise. Pressure and heat produced explosion. Never reached cruising altitude – same in trials. Too short trials. No one knew the ship properly. Weather bad for long flight. Fabric all waterlogged and ship’s nose is down. Impossible to rise. Cannot trim. You will understand that I had to tell you. Two hours tried to rise, but elevator jammed. Almost scraped the roofs of Achy. Kept to railway. From beginning of trouble I knew we had not a chance… At inquiry to be held later it will be found that the superstructure of the envelope contained no resilience and had far too much weight in envelope. The added middle section was entirely wrong… too heavy, too much over weighted for the capacity of the engines…”

The medium, herself (Eileen Garret) was in a trance at the time and remembered nothing of the message, but Price and the Journalist were a bit disappointed that Sir Arthur had not made an appearance as planned and at first resented the intrusion of this unwanted spirit.  However, upon reassessing the results, they both realized that they had unwittingly been part of a dramatic moment in psychical history.

The magazine article created a sensation and was read by, among thousands of others, one William Charlton, a supply officer for the R101 who had known the airship and its personnel well.  Charlton asked Harry Price for a copy of the séance report. After studying it he and his colleagues described it as “an astounding document” containing more than 40 highly technical and confidential details of what occurred on the airship’s fatal flight, and none of which had been released to the public. 

One of the most impressive things to come out of this séance was the revelation about the “added middle section” which was done in total secrecy just before the launch, and apparently never tested before the maiden voyage.  It had lengthened the ship by 46 feet and added another gasbag to improve lift.  Another revelation was “this exorbitant scheme of carbon and hydrogen”, since this idea to mix hydrogen gas with the aerated fuel in the Diesel engines’ carburetors was a top government secret.  It appeared very evident,” said Charlton, “that for anyone present at the séance to have obtained information beforehand was grotesquely absurd.”  As a result of this experience, Charlton eventually became a spiritualist himself.

Eileen Garret was not exactly a mechanical whiz-kid.  She never even learned how to drive a car, and people who knew her testified about her ignorance of the technical details of modern mechanical innovations.  Furthermore, the séance took place only two days after the disaster, during the government’s news blackout, and long before any technical information was released about the dirigible.  No one has ever uncovered any kind of secret relationship between her and any member of the development or flight crew, and Garret was never found to be guilty of fraud in her entire fifty year career of mediumship.

Ironically, Eileen Garrett, in a séance done months earlier had received a warning from a deceased aviator named Raymond Hinchliffe that the R101 was destined for disaster.  She had attempted to pass this on to a key air ministry official, Sir William Sefton Brancker. However, Brancker disregarded the warning, and was later found among the dead.

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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)

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