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
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The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism page 3

Disturbances described by parapsychologists as poltergeists produce all sorts of physical phenomena such as noises, fires, and movement of objects without the physical effort of any living human.  They are all low level spirits.  In other words, they are mischievous, sometimes malicious and not always very bright.  They tend to follow a living person (called a poltergeist agent) rather than haunting a location like a ghost.  Wherever the poltergeist agent goes, the haunting follows him or her to the new location, and this proved to be the case with the Fox sisters.  The sisters were on the verge of nervous breakdown, so, in order to protect them, the family decided that the two girls should be evacuated from the house, and they were sent to live with relatives in different cities.  The raps followed them, breaking out at both locations, indicating that both girls were poltergeist agents.  Of course, to the skeptics, it was proof that the girls themselves were producing the noises mischievously.

The peddler’s spirit followed Katie, the “stronger” of the two poltergeist agents, but new spirits joined the party in both locations. The visitors who came to view the disturbances now began hearing from their loved ones who had recently died.  Word spread, and the girls, now joined by their sister Leah, were booked into Corinthian Hall in the bustling city of Rochester New York to an overflow crowd of 400.  Some in the audience came primarily to expose fraud, and some even to prove that the girls were witches.  The Rochester Daily Democrat had prepared a scathing review, but had to spike it when the events went smoothly for the spirits.  

Kate did not attend the first night, but Maggie and Leah were subjected to test after test, producing raps and answering questions.  After the (rather successful) exhibition, committees were appointed to further examine the claims.  The examinations were conducted the next morning November 15, 1849 without informing the girls beforehand, at the Sons of Temperance Hall, and again in the afternoon at a private home where the sisters had been staying while in town.

The girls were thoroughly examined for fraud.  They were each placed on a table to allow the committee members to observe, touch and hold their feet, arms and legs.  A doctor used a stethoscope to determine if the noises emanated from the girls’ lungs.  Some of the examinations were done in a separate room.  The girls were tied up, stripped (by committees of women), made to stand on pillows, had their feet, hands, legs and arms held and were generally abused, and still the raps were clear and distinct.  Their clothes were examined, their bodies probed, and the raps still emanated from the walls and ceilings. No one was able to find any cheating.  

A second exhibition held at the Sons of Temperance Hall produced the same results (This time, Kate was in attendance) with even more zealous men and women testing every conceivable avenue for fraud. 

“All agreed that the sounds were heard, but they entirely failed to discover any means by which it could be done.” 

A third exhibition was scheduled to be held in the spring of 1850 in Corinthian hall to further test the girls.  After the second committee had made its report, one member of the third committee swore he would eat his favorite beaver fur hat and another man threatened to hurl himself over the Genesee Falls if they could not outwit the girls.  But when the third committee finally made its report, it stated that:

“Despite all precautions, the sounds had been heard and the various questions asked of the spirits had been answered, generally correctly.” 

After three days of the strictest scrutiny, the girls had won a remarkable victory.  No word was forthcoming on the disposition of the beaver fur hat or the fate of the man who had threatened to hurl himself over the Genesee Falls.

After the second Corinthian Hall demonstration, the girls gave demonstrations in Albany, and then in Troy, New York, all with angry skeptics out to debunk them.  The skeptics tried, but failed.  By June of 1850, the girls were living and giving demonstrations at Barnum’s Hotel in New York City on Broadway.  Note that at this point, if any deception had been found in Albany or Troy, there would never have been any further demonstrations because the newspapers of the day were as rabidly skeptical of paranormal phenomena as any of the angry skeptics attending the original performances.  News of deception would have spread faster than news of the girls’ successes and the entire affair would have ended as soon as it had begun.

The fact that the disturbances followed the girls when they left the rented Fox residence is used as justification by modern debunkers to insist that the disturbances were the mischievous work of the sisters themselves rather than the work of spirits.  Few of them ever bothered to read the history of the Corinthian Hall, Albany, Troy or Broadway demonstrations, all of which fairly well exonerated the girls from charges of fraud. 

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