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 Judgment 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 
    • Time in the planes of illusion
    • Memory in the world of spirit
    • 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
        • 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
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    • 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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23. The Cross Correspondences

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One experiment in particular went a long way toward substantiating the legitimacy of spiritual survival.  After the death of Frederick Myers, between 1901 and 1932, a series of communications involving the spirits of Myers and several of his friends were transmitted to multiple mediums living and operating on different continents thousands of miles apart.  The mediums involved were not familiar with one another and did not communicate with one another.  By themselves, the individual spirit communications made little sense, and had no meaning to any of the mediums who received them.  However, when fitted together by a panel of classical scholars, these otherwise meaningless scraps created coherent and intricate messages.  This series of communications, known as the “Cross Correspondences” appears to have been designed by the spirits themselves to prove that they survived death.

The process of fitting the apparently random fragments together was similar to the assembly of a modern, compressed digital picture received over the internet. The image you see on your computer monitor is composed of millions of bits of information, which are sent out in groups called “packets”.  These packets are received by your computer in no particular order, and any given packet means nothing by itself.  It’s the computer’s job to unscramble, interpret and finally reassemble the packets in the correct order so that they can be presented on the monitor as a coherent picture. 

To make matters even more complex, the information conveyed in the cross correspondences was, in a way, encrypted.  The ultimate messages were based on allusions to obscure classical literature that very few people would have recognized.  The use of obscure classical literature would have been consistent with the personalities of the spirits who apparently devised the concept of the cross correspondences, particularly Frederick W.H. Myers, who we met in chapter 5 and who died in 1901.  His spirit appears to have been the instigator of this experiment.  The reassembled messages used subtle symbolism, and each one might be dictated over a period of weeks, months or even years (thirty years in one instance).

Each medium would receive seemingly meaningless scripts, some of which were written in Greek and Latin. These scripts were “signed” by Myers and were duly forwarded to the British Society for Psychic Research.  Each script was like a tiny piece of an enormously complex puzzle.  

This “experiment” began shortly after Myers’ death in 1901.  Most of the messages were received through automatic writing.  The automatists included Margaret Verrall, a classics lecturer at Cambridge University, her daughter Alice Fleming (sister of Rudyard Kipling), then living in India, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, (Myers’ sister-in-law), and Leonora Piper, a famous and well-studied professional medium.  Neither Fleming, Willett nor Piper possessed significant knowledge of Greek or Latin, which means they were unlikely to have unconsciously produced these messages themselves.

When the scripts first started appearing, Margaret Verrall was quite skeptical and believed that they were influenced by telepathy and clairvoyance on the part of the mediums themselves.  However, many of the messages were disjointed and garbled in phrasing, and she was puzzled about the frequent references to literature and history. For a number of years, no one really noticed any coherent pattern to the messages until in 1906, Alice Johnson, organizing secretary of the SPR noticed that when certain fragments produced by different automatists were connected, a pattern emerged, as if they were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.  

The scripts appeared to be from Myers.  They were not only signed by him, but they were written in language consistent with his personality.  Eventually, Myers was joined in his post-mortem experiment by several other deceased friends, among them Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Gurney, who founded the SPR along with Myers.  The purpose of including obscure allusions to ancient Greek and Roman literature was to establish the identity of Myers and others of his deceased colleagues, who, like him, were classical scholars with a deep knowledge of the subject.  

Myers had spent most of his life studying the evidence for the survival of the personality after death.  Like everyone today confronted with the objective evidence, he found he could get frustratingly close, but could never rule out the possibility of fraud, telepathy or clairvoyance on the part of the mediums.  The point Myers was trying to make with the cross correspondences was to show that he and his deceased friends could formulate and carry out a complex scheme to prove that they still existed as thinking personalities.  None of the living actors in this drama even knew that Myers’ plan was afoot until Alice Johnson noticed, quite by accident, that these apparently disjointed scripts formed a distinct pattern.      

The Cross correspondences are difficult to study today because of the esoteric nature of the material transmitted and the incredible complexity of piecing the bits together.  Esoteric means “material that is intended for and understood by only an initiated few”.  These initiated few are today’s vanishing coterie of classical scholars.  Trying to describe even the simplest ones is quite tedious, and most moderns who are not familiar with classical literature have trouble following the logic. Nevertheless, the cross correspondences were a remarkable spiritual accomplishment and represent one of the most comprehensive proofs of spiritual survival ever produced.  

Skeptics generally avoid talking about the cross correspondences, and feel justified in doing so because so few people today can understand the classical allusions and have trouble following the logic. When the skeptics are confronted by people who have studied and understand the evidence, they fall back on claims of fraud, collusion, coincidence or “Super ESP.”  In addition, the study of the paranormal and spiritual survival today is very nearly universally reviled by the very academics that would ordinarily be called upon to study them.  Atheism has become the standard among modern academics, and they defend it as zealously as the fifteenth century Catholic Church defended Catholic doctrine.

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