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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Human Spirit Possession

When people think about “possession”, they immediately think of exorcisms involving a demon or Satan as the possessing entity.  Most people do not realize that a person can be possessed by a human earthbound spirit.  It is probably much more common than anyone realizes, because the symptoms are simply chalked off to ordinary physical or mental illness.  The sudden appearance of a physical or mental aberration in a formerly healthy person is the hallmark of spiritual obsession or possession.

Spiritual possession does NOT mean that the soul itself is possessed.  A person’s soul is sacrosanct (sacred) and can NEVER be “possessed” by an alien spirit.  Your soul belongs exclusively to you and God!  Possession applies solely to the possession of a body.  The soul is temporarily shoved aside, but still exists totally intact. 

Having said that, the soul can be manipulated by an alien spirit.  It can be tricked, enslaved and made to believe untruths.  It is just as pliable as any living person and susceptible to all sorts of coercion such as flattery, threats, hypnosis and abuse.  It may be persuaded to abandon its freedom, but it always retains its free will.  Manipulation of a person or a spirit by an alien spirit without an actual infection of the aura is called enthrallment.  (The term “oppression” can be used to mean the same thing, but it is generally applied to one of the stages of demonic infestation and will be discussed later.)

Spirit possession is a deeper form of spirit obsession.  It happens when an infecting spirit entirely displaces the personality of the infected living host.  While obsession is caused by a surface infection of a person’s aura, in possession, the infection passes through holes in the aura, displaces the soul and takes direct control of the body.  During periods of possession, the host soul has no conscious control of his or her body or mind.  Indeed, the host’s own consciousness is suppressed entirely, if temporarily.  The patient suffers a complete “loss of self”, which means that the person has no awareness or memory of his or her behavior during the period of possession. 

The host may have a completely different personality in control of their bodies, before reverting back to their own personality.  A psychiatrist who sees a case of spiritual possession usually assumes that it is a case of  psychosis or “Dissociative Identity Disorder”, abbreviated as DID (formally called Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD).  

DID is a severe mental disorder in which patients display multiple personalities.  These personalities switch back and forth at irregular intervals.  It is often associated with repressed memories of severe childhood abuse and trauma.  Most modern psychiatrists, of course, deny the existence of spiritual infection, but it is impossible to differentiate between cases of spirit possession and psychiatric Dissociative Identity Disorder.  Not being a psychiatrist, I cannot comment on the reality of the “metaphysical” aspects of DID.  

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of clinical DID cases is the presence of physiological abnormalities present in one personality and not present in others within the same individual such as severe allergies, color blindness, different eye colors that shift within seconds and different prescriptions for glasses. One woman, blind from a young age as a result of an accident which damaged her occipital lobes (visual brain center) was being treated for DID and found that one of her personalities was able to see: “BT suddenly regained her sight.  As she switched between personalities, her vision also switched on and off like a light.”  The common explanation for all of these phenomena is that the mind has enormous control over the body’s physiology.    

Usually, the victims of spirit possession have no recollection of their bizarre behavior.  Exactly what happens to the host’s own soul (personality) during episodes when an obsessing spirit controls the body is not clear.  It may simply be shoved aside, remaining in the host’s aura, but under control of the alien spirit.  What is clear is that the host is no longer recognizable to persons who were familiar with him or her prior to the possession.  

Spirit possession is almost never a constant or continuous condition with a permanent takeover of the patient’s body by the invading spirit.  Instead, the possession takes the form of attacks in which the patient temporarily becomes another person.  Spirit possession cases often present as episodic bouts of violent and profane behavior interspersed with intervals of normal intelligence. The American public recognizes spirit possession because of popular books and movies on occult subjects, however, spirit obsession occurs much more frequently than the more obvious cases of spirit possession.

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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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