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
    • Spirit Portals
  • 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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The Aura and Spiritual infection (Obsession)

In Spirit obsession, the aura has sustained enough damage to become infected with one or more invading spirits.  This is a sort of “surface infection” of the soul, a bit like a sore or a skin rash.  Infecting a living person’s aura has some advantages for the invading spirit.  Once the spirit has infected the aura, it gains the use of the host’s physical senses and can see the earth environment  through the host’s eyes without hindrance.  It finds that it can influence the host’s behavior by injecting alien thoughts into his or her mind.  It may even be capable of gaining full possession of the host’s body for limited periods of time.  The host generally cannot distinguish his or her own thoughts from those of the infecting spirit, and this can lead the host into aberrant, self-destructive or even criminal behavior.  

The human aura acts like a magnet, and once the spirit makes intimate contact with it, the spirit then becomes trapped and unable to leave.  It becomes bound to the aura with serious consequences for both the spirit and the host.  Once confined within the host’s aura, the infecting spirit becomes disoriented, and in most cases, it fails to understand where it is.  It just realizes that it is suddenly confined in a small space and can’t escape.  It does not have the freedom to leave the host, and often confuses the host’s body for its own.  Furthermore, the human host will usually confuse the spirit’s thoughts for his or her own causing spiritual insanity and erratic behavior.   This is the definition of spiritual obsession. 

An ignorant, but otherwise benign spirit trapped in a person’s aura becomes isolated from the larger spiritual environment where it might otherwise be liberated by friends and relatives who have returned to the transitional plane to rescue it.  Furthermore, an infected aura is susceptible to infection by multiple alien spirits, none of whom has any control over the others.  For any given infecting spirit, it would be like being trapped in a jail cell with a bunch of reprobates. 

Psychic sensitives are a large class of living people who are more psychic than other people.  Unfortunately, they are also much more susceptible to spiritual infections than other people, especially if they are mentally ill or have any of several personality disorders.  These people produce extra psychic energy which may overflow from their intact auras like light from an incandescent bulb on a circuit with too much voltage.  

If the extra energy is put to good use, it does no harm, in the same way that an incandescent light bulb maintains a constant operating temperature if its environment allows it to dissipate excess heat.  But if the psychic energy is not dissipated in a constructive way, it attracts and energizes earthbound spirits and may damage the aura itself.  This damage to the aura allows for an auric surface infection.  (The term “auric” is the adjective form of aura.  An auric infection is simply an infection of a person’s aura.) 

The excess energy may even “burn through”, or make holes in the aura.  This allows for a much more serious form of spiritual infection than mere spiritual obsession.  If the damage is severe enough, the holes may allow one or more lower entities to enter inside the aura to make direct contact with the host’s own soul.  In some cases, the invading spirit (or spirits) can temporarily displace the host’s soul within its human body, which is the definition of spiritual possession.  

Leakage of excess psychic energy from a damaged aura into the external spiritual environment may become the source of the energy used by poltergeists, a subject discussed in chapter 15.  Childhood abuse can damage a child’s auric defenses enough to create holes that may allow large amounts of his or her natural psychic energy to spill out into the spiritual environment.  When this happens, the energy becomes available to malignant earthbound spirits who can pick it up and “run” with it like a kid who finds a football in a vacant lot.  This is often the origin of poltergeist activity.

Temporary auric leakage may not present a long term problem to the child agent him/herself if the aura remains largely intact.  Auras, after all, are not made of glass, and like any part of the body, surface infections generally heal themselves, especially in young, vital people.  Indeed, very few poltergeist “hauntings” last more than a few weeks, or a few months at most.  But during the period of leakage, lower spirits can use this spilled energy to manifest in various ways.  Spirits so energized use this excess energy to create physical disturbances such as levitation of small objects and loud noises, but unless the aura is very severely damaged, they cannot otherwise enter and infect the living soul.  

On the other hand, severe child abuse warps a child’s outlook and mind.  This, in turn, will damage the child’s auric defenses.  Abuse, combined with a naturally psychic personality might invite a permanent, lifelong spiritual infection with one or more criminal entities.  One suspects that this may be what has happened in some cases of serial killers, and in other habitual criminals since most of the worst ones have had histories of horrific childhood abuse, and childhood spiritual infection in these people is almost a certainty.  

Damage to the aura may be caused in adulthood by other factors as well.  Negative lifestyle choices like alcoholism and drug abuse or a preference for criminal behavior may damage a person’s defenses against spiritual infection.  Traumatic life events as well as congenital or developmental brain defects can also be at fault.  This subject is covered in more detail in chapters 16 and 17.  In any event, a damaged aura plus an excess of psychic energy is a bad combination for anyone, adult or child! 

Note: For those looking for some suggestions on how to treat a poltergeist infestation, see this section in the chapter on Demon Possession, Poltergeists and Parapsychology.

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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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