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 Provenance of Angelic Beings

Before I start defining the difference between angels and demons, it is important that I go into the mythical history of these spiritual beings.  Keep in mind that although this history is mythical, it is very ancient and no one has ever come up with a better explanation of how three separate orders of spirits (angels, demons and the souls of humans) came into being in the first place.  I present this history to explain just why human souls outrank even the angels in God’s Hierarchy. 

The “standard” mythology goes something like this:  Prior to the creation of the material universe, God created an army of angelic helpers.  These were God’s first attempt to create sentient (thinking) beings, analogous to a first release of a software program; a sort of “Spirit 1.0”.  All of these beings were created to do His bidding, each with a specific job to perform.  Each one had their own form of intelligence and the ability to make decisions based on their defined tasks, but since they were all designed to perform specific functions, their degree of free will to act outside of their assigned tasks was fairly limited.  Their most important impulse was a burning desire to serve their creator. 

The only exception to this was a special angel named Lucifer who God created as an angel with high intelligence, free will and ambition.  He created Lucifer with these attributes because He wanted a companion more like Himself to help Him to manage His creation.  He was God’s second in command.

Unfortunately, this first attempt at spiritual creation made for a static heaven.  It produced a heaven that could not progress in knowledge and wisdom.  Even Lucifer was not up to the task.  He was, after all, only one of God’s angels.  He did not possess God’s great intelligence or intuition, and he couldn’t be trusted to make all the divine decisions on his own.  He was, for all intents and purposes, just a heavenly bureaucrat.  However, God wanted to grow, and the heaven he had created was too static to help him in this endeavor.  His wisdom could penetrate down throughout the ranks of his angelic host, but lacking a high degree of free will, his angelic host was unable to contribute to His store of wisdom.  

Because their free will is limited, angelic beings naturally tend to organize themselves in structured organizations similar to armies with various ranks subordinate to higher ranks, and each angel subordinate to superior angels, all, of course, subordinate to God.  Each angel has a fair amount of latitude and a degree of free will in the performance of the tasks assigned to it.  But having only limited free will, if an angel were asked by a superior to act outside of its defined specialty, it would need the permission and guidance of superior angels.  

Thus we read about the various angelic “choirs” starting at the top with Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones down through the ranks to Archangels and finally to ordinary angels.  Each angel has its own function but they are all motivated exclusively by God’s desires and have few desires of their own.  In other words, none of them tend to “think outside of the box” and cannot evolve spiritually because each one was created perfectly to perform its tasks in the first place.  Angels cannot evolve!

God wanted new challenges and new horizons, and his army of angels simply could not provide the spiritual evolution that God craved.  Thus began God’s quest to create spiritual beings that DID possess the ability to act on their own.  I suspect that by observing Lucifer, his second in command, He realized how dangerous this new experiment could be, so He assigned His angels to create a material universe, completely isolated from his spiritual domain.  This would function as a quarantined laboratory to confine and provide limits to the behavior of his new creations.  Thus, the material universe with all of its stars, galaxies, planets, quasars, and black holes came into being.    

When He began to create his new living beings, He presumably went through a number of “hardware” iterations in his laboratory starting with proto-bacteria and plant life, progressing through numerous low-level organisms, into vertebrates that had limited intelligence.  None of these creatures were particularly rewarding since their behaviors were all strictly defined by their specific environments and instinctual behaviors.  These early attempts could be labeled Spirit 1.01, 1.02…etc.  

Ultimately, He arrived at a species that could actually think in abstract terms.  We can call the souls of human beings “Spirit 2.0”.  Human souls were full-fledged spiritual beings with the divine properties of abstract reasoning and free will.  Furthermore, their confinement in a material universe kept the spiritual realm protected from the unpredictability that all this free will naturally produced, while at the same time allowing each individual soul full freedom to evolve spiritually in any way he or she chose within the limits imposed by their material container.

Therefore, human beings actually outrank the angels.  Only humans can evolve spiritually.  Only humans can return to God with “value-added”.  ALL other angelic beings, both angels and demons, function as mere bureaucrats designed to help in the creation and maintenance of a material world where human beings can learn the basics of spiritual evolution.

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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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