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 Hells

The presence of the hells is the most contentious subject in psychic research.  Some psychics simply don’t find any evidence for them at all.  Others do.  I have concluded that the hells exist primarily because of the voluminous evidence for demonic entities and evil human spirits found in the narratives of exorcisms and violent hauntings.  Everyone on earth has to live with both good and evil in order to learn our earthly lessons, but the reason that Heaven exists at all is to allow souls to advance toward their union with God.  That means advancing from the darkness to the light. Therefore, Heaven is structured like a school with various “grades”, and  it would make no sense for God to allow violent beings like demons and the souls of evil people to disrupt the advanced classes.  

While most psychics freely contact spirits whose abode is in the “happy” parts of heaven, only Satanists, those engaged in the “dark arts” and amateur witches trying to cast spells intentionally communicate directly with a spirit whose natural habitat is in Hell.   In order to “make contact” with an evil human spirit whose home is in one of the hells, you have to wait until that spirit gains enough energy to rise into the transitional plane (also known as the earth plane) and takes up residence as a spirit within our material world.  

This brings up the question of whether the transitional plane is really just the “surface layer” of the hells, or whether it is a unique plane entirely independent of the hells.  To tell the truth, I really don’t know, and in fact, it hardly matters! Whether these increasingly negative lower layers are separate layers distinct from the transitional plane or if the transitional plane is simply the “top layer” of the Hellish conditions below, is merely a mater of semantics.  That the hells exist is not a matter up for debate.

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People who have lived exceptionally evil and wonton lives generally gravitate to levels below the Winterlands where conditions are dark and where they will find neighbors as vicious as they are.  They do this because their evil natures “weigh them down” and they simply sink into these regions due to the law of spiritual gravity. 

These lower planes are what we think of as “Hell”, although they are not filled with fire and brimstone as described by medieval Catholicism. They are really levels of cold and darkness, each level a bit darker, a bit colder and further from the light of God. Here, evil souls must face others of their ilk.  The suffering in these regions is not meted out by demons and devils, but by the mental state of the soul itself, or by other inmates.  These realms are like prisons, but without the cells or prison guards.  In the upper levels, souls must confront their own evil, as if it was constantly reflected back at them by a mirror from which they can never remove their gaze. Life in the lowest levels is like living in a stinking sewer while participating in a never ending prison riot with prisoners meting out horrible punishments on each other to avenge a never ending supply of slights and insults..  

 Most of us would like to believe that the souls confined here are evil and are just getting what they deserve, however, neither the Winterlands nor the planes below are actually intended to be places of punishment.  Don’t get me wrong! The inmates confined in the hells will suffer horribly for what may feel to them like eons.  Nevertheless, they are there to learn their lessons and eventually come to understand that their negativity doesn’t pay.  Ultimately, it is their negativity that keeps them anchored in their hells.  Even the hells are there for the eventual evolution of souls.

When a soul finds itself in dark conditions after its earth life, it is not exclusively due to its evil acts.  It is because of its poor character!  If a living person commits an evil act at one point in his or her life but later learns from the error, the act itself becomes insignificant.  If the person’s character is truly reformed during his or her lifetime, then the spirit can continue its spiritual development after death as if the act never happened.  On the other hand, if that person does not acknowledge his or her evil act and learns nothing from the experience, then the evil act becomes a significant negative event in its postmortem existence leading to a darker outcome after the soul crosses over.

The dark spheres are meant to be places of rehabilitation.  Remember from our discussion of theodicy in Chapter 3 that after we die, we need to leave the world of matter behind.  The realm a soul enters when it abandons its physical body is tailor-made to allow that spirit to gradually shed its narcissism and its addictions to matter. Even here, a soul retains it free will and can make independent decisions about its behavior and beliefs. 

The hells are simply dark and desolate earthlike environments where the spirit must confront its hollowness by experiencing its own reflection in other spirits of similar nature.  There is no “payback” in heaven.  The point of the dark planes is to force the soul to see itself for what it is and thus to reform its overall character so that it can earn a place in a realm of brightness.

Consider the terms “penitentiary and “reformatory”.  These were the names given to prisons during the great liberal reforms of the late nineteenth century.  Instead of just punishing the criminal, the reformers wanted to provide an environment that would encourage the prisoner to redirect his character and nudge him toward becoming an upstanding citizen.  Regardless of their success in achieving those ends, the general idea was to force the prisoner to confront his own evil and make the proper changes in his character.  It may not have worked out quite the way that the reformers envisioned, but “their hearts were in the right place”.

Today, a vast majority of people see prisons merely as places of punishment, or warehouses for toxic people, but a fair number of the prisoners actually do reform.  This is the result that the nineteenth century liberal reformers had in mind for all “sinners”, but, of course, some criminals require more time than their lifetimes allow.  

The hells are just very long-term “correctional facilities” in which even the worst inmates have ample time to gain understanding and reform themselves.  God does not punish anyone!  He simply gives them opportunities to evolve.  Their punishments and rewards lie deep within their own souls.  Over the eons, even the worst criminals get tired of their isolation and the consequences of their negativity.  Sooner or later they begin to long for something better.  That’s when they begin the long climb up the spiritual ladder.

For reasons of their own they chose a dark path, but they are still God’s children.  The hells are really just extremely “tough love”.  These souls have free will and all of eternity to learn to apply it.  Even if it takes eons, most of them will eventually learn their lessons and begin their very long climb toward the consciousness of God.

“Every soul who dwells in these dreadful dark realms has the power within himself to rise up out of the foulness into the light.  He must make the individual effort himself, he must work out his own redemption…But the golden opportunity of spiritual reclamation is ready and waiting.  He has but to show an earnest desire to move himself one fraction of an inch towards the realms of light that are above him, and he will find a host of unknown friends who will help him towards that heritage which is his due, but which in his folly he cast aside.”

Anthony Borgia: Life in the world unseen

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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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