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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The characteristics of demons

The clearest evidence we have that demons exist comes from accounts of violent “poltergeist” hauntings and exorcisms carried out by recognized religious authorities.  Remember that demons are primordial beings and (at least theoretically) have never lived a human life.  They are the embodiment of evil. 

Demons are inhuman spirits, or at least very ancient and evil human souls whose history throughout long eons of time have taught them how to manipulate huge amounts of spiritual energy for exclusively evil purposes.  Their hauntings are different than regular ghost hauntings.  A ghost is an “ordinary” earthbound human soul.  It is usually a passive entity with limited powers and abilities.  Ghosts behave in predictable ways, either wanting to communicate their plight or be left alone to contemplate their own misfortunes.  They will materialize, sometimes communicating and sometimes not, and then disappear.  If a ghost causes psychokinetic effects, they are minor, like the levitation of a figurine, the throwing of a small stone the turning of a doorknob or the breaking of a teacup.  They might perform simple operations that don’t require much energy like flicking lights on or off, or turning on the TV or an electric appliance. They can also make noises, (sometimes loud noises), or move small objects from place to place.  According to Ed Warren, ghosts rarely levitate anything that weighs more than a pound.  They can be scary, but their manifestations are relatively weak, and if the entity isn’t malicious, a family can even coexist with a ghost in the house.  Most ghosts are indifferent to religion and religious icons.  

Demons, on the other hand, are truly malevolent.  They cause tremendous psychokinetic damage, sometimes leaving an entire house in shambles.  The phenomena they produce are much more powerful and frightening than any ghost can produce.  They can levitate heavy objects like refrigerators, washing machines and even people.  In some exorcisms, large objects like chairs have even been seen to explode apart!  If a demonic entity actually materializes, it often appears as a black whirling mass, which is their actual appearance.  They most often present as black shadow figures so dark that people describe them as blacker than black, however, demons and devils can temporarily assume virtually any form they wish.  Like any spirit, its outward appearance is created by its own inner thought processes.  They also are accompanied by a strong stench of sulfur, excrement, rotting flesh and ozone.  

The devils in the upper hierarchy are infinitely intelligent and infinitely knowledgeable.  Theoretically, they have existed since the beginning of time and have witnessed the entire history of mankind.  The demons in the ranks are not as intelligent, and some are downright stupid, but they still have a lot of knowledge because they too have existed since the beginning of time.  They gain much of their knowledge from the living souls that they have oppressed over the centuries.  They have the ability to read the minds of any living person they come into contact with.  No living person can ever outwit or overwhelm a demon.  Only a divine being can do that. 

Note: In a way, the fact that these things exist and make their existence obvious is a sort of backhanded confirmation that God exists.  If God didn’t exist, the demons would have no reason to hate him so much.  God never really reveals himself to us as a material or even a spectral being.  He works exclusively in the background, like His angels, and it is our job to find Him, and not the other way around.  The demons’ incredibly blatant displays of hatred for God are simply an indication of their deep belief in Him.  

Fear is the psychic currency of demons.  Demons need fear on the part of living persons as a source of energy in order to manifest.  Fear in a person causes a constant leakage of psychic energy into the spiritual environment, and the demons feed on that. That’s why they cause the havoc they do in people’s lives.  The more fear, hatred and distrust they can provoke, the more energy they get.  The more energy they get, the more power they have.  Their strategy is to create fear in order to break down the human will.  Their prime objective is to cause a momentary lapse in a living person’s free will.  This creates an opening for possession.

Demons hate light.  They perform most of their evil at night between the hours of 9:00 PM and 6:00 AM, and shining a bright light on them can sometimes stun them.  Darkness is symbolic of the evil they love.  They eventually try to overwhelm the five senses with evil phenomena such as disgusting smells, ghoulish moans, blood curdling screams, knockings, poundings, disembodied footsteps, rapid changes in room temperature, ghastly visions, heavy breathing and unintelligible whisperings.

Demons lie about everything and can often fool a medium into thinking it is only an “innocent” ghost, like a lost child.  This is one of the ways they can gain permission to enter a home or attach themselves to household objects, ultimately aiming to possess the body of a vulnerable human being.

Demon infested houses can sometimes be cleared by a knowledgeable psychic if the infestation hasn’t taken a very firm hold on the property. They might do this using rituals such as blessings, Kosher salt applications and smudging (the use of burning sage).  Properly applied, this may work in all stages of a demon haunting up to and including the stage of infestation.  This is NOT the case with a demon oppressed or possessed person.  The only way to remove a demon who has infected or stolen a human body is through religious exorcism.  Psychics and mediums are not suitable instruments in the case of demon possession.  

The only thing that can (sometimes) free a human soul from demon possession is a holy person with a serious belief in God and an exorcism ritual. Because demons are evil angels and not the spirits of evil men and women, they cannot be removed from a person’s body by any human agency without the intervention of the angels working for God.  That is the reason that successful demon exorcisms are never done in the name of the exorcist himself, but in the name of God or Jesus (or in the name of an avatar that is worshiped by the people of other religions).

If you’d like to learn more about demons, devils and exorcism, you can start with the following book: The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren, written by Gerald Brittle, 2013 

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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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