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
    • 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 life review

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“My life flashed before my eyes.”  It’s a common saying when people recount a scary experience, but it’s an actual experience reported by a multitude of near death survivors.  During a near-death experience (NDE), the life review is extremely rapid and “replays” every incident in a person’s life, from birth, to death.  Sometimes this happens in the company of a significant figure like Jesus or a respected teacher, and sometimes it happens while the person is alone standing outside of his or her body.  There is no external judgment of any incident.  There is only a personal judgment on the part of the soul experiencing it.  

The experience itself can be very profound.  P.M.H. Atwater, a researcher who has been studying near-death experiences most of her life, relates the following near-death experience:

“[He was] a mafia hitman whose life review involved him reliving everything he had ever done, good or bad, as well as the consequences. He also had to live through whatever happened to each person he hurt as if he were them. He felt all of their pain, lived through their circumstances, and faced their grief. He was incapable of hurting another person after that, and devoted the rest of his life to serving the poor through various church programs.”

Atwater, P. M. H. (2009-01-09). Near-Death Experiences, The Rest of the Story: What They Teach Us About Living and Dying and Our True Purpose (p. 23). Hampton Roads Publishing. Kindle Edition.

According to Atwater, people can return from an NDE with higher IQ, greater creativity and even newly enlarged psychic capabilities.  Some experience a preview of certain events in the future, which eventually unfold as predicted.  Although many near death experiencers report a sense of universal awareness and love, this translates mostly to changes in attitude by the recipient rather than to new knowledge. A person may change the course of his or her own life as a result of an NDE, but no one returns with the secret formula for a revolutionary new technology or knowledge about life on other planets. 

The life review also happens when a person permanently enters the world of spirit.  It is a phenomenon commonly recounted through mediums.  It appears to happen immediately after death while the soul is still on the transitional plane, before the soul has made the decision to cross over.  As in the example above, the spirit experiences each episode not only through its own senses, but also through those of the other people involved.  This gives the experiencer the advantage of fully understanding the effect his or her actions had on others who may have experienced a joyful experience, or had to suffer abuse at their hands. Once again, there is no external judgment.  It is the sole responsibility of the spirit to acknowledge its actions so that it can work toward growing and evolving toward God.

The Life review does not confer a lasting universal awareness on the spirit.  No new information or universal knowledge is imparted.  When people die, they don’t learn the secrets of the universe or whether reincarnation really happens.  It’s reasonable to assume that this is the case because if all souls were simply given universal knowledge and understanding, there would be no real need for spiritual evolution.  Why would there be so many evil minded ghosts if everyone were to gain perfect understanding upon their death?  Why would it be necessary to write a chapter about Spirit Lies and Tall Tales (chapter 19)?  Indeed, why would God bother with human souls at all if He wanted to create us to be more perfect than the angels in the first place? (The answer to that question is that God wants us to evolve so that He too can evolve when we return to Him.  He invested part of himself in us so that we could return to him with unique histories and attributes.)

The spirit is simply made aware of its shortcomings and is given an insight into how his or her behavior has affected others so that it can begin the process of spiritual evolution within the spiritual realm.  The knowledge comes later by dint of its hard work.  Even after the life review, the spirit retains its earthly personality, including its beliefs and prejudices.  

The life review doesn’t seem to have a direct effect on the soul’s spiritual buoyancy, or the level to which it eventually ascends or descends when it crosses over into the mainstream spiritual realm.  The purpose of the life review is apparently to allow the soul to inspect the elements of its life in a dispassionate way in order to allow it to adjust its spiritual trajectory, hopefully for the better.  It is, however, up to the soul to make the proper adjustments.  

It is likely that a majority of souls not only acknowledge their faults, but resolve to correct them.  The resolutions happen immediately, but the actual corrections take a lot of hard work and spiritual time.  It’s up to the spirit to decide how to proceed, whether to remain in spirit or perhaps even to reincarnate to make up for the lessons it failed to learn in its earthly existence.  The corrections that each spirit strives to make within itself as a result of its life review generally pay off with spiritual advancement.

Unfortunately, not all spirits are willing to make the difficult changes necessary for advancement, and some of the more negative ones refuse to acknowledge their wrongdoing.  Those persons who never developed a conscience while living on the earth are not likely to benefit from their life review when they enter into Spirit.  They may even stubbornly double down on their negativity.  Others are just like spousal abusers who swear that they will never abuse again.  They promise themselves that they will change, but their resolve is only temporary.  They soon forget their vows of spiritual reform and continue on with the same old mindset.  Spirits like this are likely to fear crossing into the light and become earthbound voluntarily.  They are not “doomed”, but they have to learn their lessons the hard way.  Eventually, most souls “wise up”, cross over and begin to evolve.

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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.

The Structure of Heaven is a 350 page book that can be downloaded from Amazon.com in kindle format by clicking here. It is also available in paperback format by clicking here.

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