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 Conditions in the Hells

As I stated earlier, the environments in all spiritual regions are communal illusions but are perceived by the resident souls as real and enduring.  The spiritual laws that govern the hells are the same as those that govern the environments in the Summerlands and the planes above.  The difference is the type of spirit that inhabits these lower levels.  Since these spirits have dark, narcissistic mindsets, they create dark and unhappy spiritual environments.  While a home in one of the Summerlands may resemble a nicely kept house in a good neighborhood, a home in the corresponding  Winterland might resemble a condemned crack house in a slum with holes in the walls, broken furniture, dirty mattresses on the floor and a massive bedbug, louse and cockroach infestation. 

As human spirits sink to the lower regions of the Winterlands and into the hells, they begin to suffer the more dramatic effects of their base natures.  The lowest of the Winterlands and the planes beneath them are dark, cold and uninviting, dank with the strong stench of rotting flesh. The deeper the plane, the darker, colder, more violent, sickening and unpleasant the environment.  A general feeling of depression pervades the atmosphere.  The colors in the upper hells are all somber shades of grays and browns, and in the lowest hells, complete darkness.  There are no pleasant sounds as there are in the Summerlands.  Just a constant cacophony of crying, moaning, screams and chaos.  Objects here are terrifyingly dangerous and filthy.  

In the darker spheres, objects and structures also begin as thought-forms created by the resident spirits which, as in the Summerlands, transforms itself into spiritual matter.  But mean, humble and evil thoughts create mean, humble and evil objects.  Any objects intended for personal comfort and enjoyment created by these spirits will be willfully destroyed by others of their ilk.  Thus their environment always resembles a wasteland of jagged wreckage.

The spirits in the lower hells are evil and narcissistic vandals who are constantly assaulting each other.  They sabotage each other’s efforts to find personal comfort.  Instead of beautiful green lawns, vibrantly colored flowers and pleasant dwellings, the lower Winterlands are barren, rocky, cold and dark.  Depending on the level to which the spirit has fallen, “residences” may be hovels or caves, or even stinking sewage filled swamps.  

The synaesthesia which in the Summerlands transforms colorful and fragrant flowers into music creates something rather different in the hells.  The cold, darkness and gloom generated by the mindset of the inhabitants produces an all-pervading stench of excrement, garbage and rotting flesh while an unpleasant din punctuated by sudden loud, terror laden screams make the environment even more frightening and unpleasant.

Emanuel Swedenborg wrote the following about the dark realms.  

“Some hells present an appearance like the ruins of houses and cities after conflagrations, in which infernal spirits dwell and hide themselves. In the milder hells there is an appearance of rude huts, in some cases contiguous in the form of a city with lanes and streets, and within the houses are infernal spirits engaged in unceasing quarrels, enmities, fightings, and brutalities; while in the streets and lanes robberies and depredations are committed. In some of the hells there are nothing but brothels, disgusting to the sight and filled with every kind of filth and excrement.”

Neither Swedenborg, nor Stainton Moses (who lived in the nineteenth century) believed that there was any Satan or king of devils standing in opposition to God.  They believed that there is only the narcissism of the spirits who have gravitated into these dark realms as a result of their own self-absorption and foul attitudes.  For Swedenborg, there would be no room for a Satan, since there are always lots of evil minded spirits who would be happy to vie for the job!  Swedenborg notwithstanding, most of the evidence today suggests that non-human demons and devils DO exist in the lower levels of the spiritual world.  These are discussed in some depth in chapter 13.  

The lowest planes are a little like “Super Max” prisons without the guards or the cells to separate the prisoners.  Human spirits here visualize themselves with humanoid, if deformed bodies with the faces of demons and all the inherent human vulnerabilities.  They are free to form gangs, to fight and to maim each other at will.  They create unspeakable tortures for each other, and their environment may be worse than the deepest and foulest of sewers.  They haunt these hells with terrible deformities; torn off limbs, broken necks, rotting flesh, ghastly wounds that never heal.  Of course they cannot actually die of their injuries. And their injuries are really just figments of their febrile imaginations.  This is, after all, a realm of imagination and illusion.  But they are low souls and entirely narcissistic.  Their injuries seem to them to be permanent, and they feel the pain, terror and unfeeling hatred that they inflict on each other. 

They perceive themselves and their surroundings to be as real they were when on earth, and because these low spirits can never rise above their mournful circumstances until they are truly rehabilitated, they cannot commit their mayhem on the spirits that live within the planes of illusion or on any of the higher spiritual levels.  Therefore, they remain confined on their level and commit their mayhem on each other like the sociopaths and criminals they were on earth.  In this way, they create their own hells. The whole point of these lowly planes is to make the inmates finally realize the futility of all their negativity, and in doing so, some of them realize their errors and begin the slow rise into the higher levels by earnestly requesting help.

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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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