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 five general categories of psychics

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Mildly psychic people 

Everyone has a right brain!

Virtually every professional psychic seems to believe that anyone can become a super psychic by working to develop their skills.  Personally, I’m a bit skeptical of the claim.  After they assert their belief that anyone can become a psychic, they relate their own personal histories which almost invariably include spontaneous out-of-body experiences and other remarkable psychic experiences at a very young age, long before they ever tried to develop their own abilities.  But to be fair, they are correct in believing that everyone is psychic, even if it is difficult for the average person to access their inner psi.  

The degree of spontaneous psychic sensitivity and the way it is manifested varies widely.  Most people exhibit only very rare and equivocal flashes of psychic insight, unless they work hard to develop their abilities.  This is probably a good thing because extreme psychic sensitivity can be quite a burden, and can interfere with living a normal life.  It can even lead to mental illness.  

Moderately psychic people

For the most part, moderately psychic people are right hemisphere dominant, but they allow their left brains to lead simply as a matter of everyday survival, and most make little attempt to develop their psychic facilities.  These are the people who know that aunt Martha is ringing up their landline before answering the phone, even if they haven’t heard from her in ages.  They sense when someone they love is sick or dying, even though they are far away.  Sometimes, they seem to know more about you than you do yourself.  Sometimes, these people are called “empaths.”  They just seem to “know stuff” for some unknown reason.  They may be in a medical profession and gain a sense of what is ailing a patient even before they are properly diagnosed.  Some of these people are considered wise by their acquaintances.  Others are simply considered “weird.”  These may be the very people that could become good psychics with moderate training.

Natural psychics

Natural psychics are strongly right hemisphere dominant, and they often know that they are psychic from a fairly early age.  These are the ones that have childhood out-of-body experiences and other spontaneous psychic experiences such as seeing ghosts.  Some remain actively psychic from childhood on, while others try to put their childhood experiences aside, but rediscover their abilities when they are older.r.  

Natural psychics may have any single, or a mix of parapsychological abilities.  Some are good at “reading people”, sensing their histories or their feelings, pain and immediate circumstances (clairsentience).  Others are good at psychometry (the ability to read the history of objects by holding them).  Some are good at precognition (the ability to sense future events).  Some are healers (empaths), some can psychically “see” at a distance (clairvoyance), some can “read minds”, even over large distances (telepathy). A few can move objects at a distance (psychokinesis, also known as PK).  Most psychics can develop more than one of these facilities.  

Being a natural psychic does not necessarily mean that this person is more spiritually evolved than other people.  Psychics have to learn how to live like anyone else, and their experiences, circumstances and internal mindset may produce a highly evolved person or someone with silly or naïve attitudes or even someone with evil personality traits.

Some natural psychics never realize the extent of their psychic sensitivity.  Many try to ignore or suppress their psychic abilities because these experiences frankly scare them.  This is perfectly understandable in light of the materialism and skepticism rampant in our society.  Some natural psychics who have fragile personality structures may be susceptible to spiritual infections and suffer mental illness related to spiritual obsession or even possession.  

It’s not always a rosy road for natural psychics.  Extreme psychic sensitivity can be destabilizing.  This is especially true in circumstance in which a child’s family doesn’t make an effort to understand how their child perceives the world.  Poorly handled, highly psychic children may contract a spiritual infection that can affect them for life, especially if there is child abuse involved.  Some psychics, adults and children, have a truly difficult time differentiating between everyday reality and their psychic visions.  This can lead to serious mental illness.  That’s one of the reasons I wrote this book.  This information might help them.  I truly hope it does!

Natural Mediums

A medium is a natural psychic who can see, hear and hold conversations with dead people.  Most natural mediums start out as psychic kids.  Some mediums are trance mediums who communicate with the dead while in an unconscious, hypnotic state.  Some receive messages through automatic writing, often not knowing what is being written until later.  Like being a psychic, being a medium does not necessarily infer that that person is more spiritually evolved than other people.  Being a medium simply means that for whatever reason, that person has the ability to communicate with the spirits of the dead.  All mediums are psychics, but not all psychics are mediums.  It goes without saying that this is something very special.  While skeptics point out that this is simply impossible, the evidence that it happens is overwhelming.    

Mystics

A mystic is a person who practices a mystic tradition and gains a knowledge of higher states of consciousness, or a person born with otherworldly knowledge and wisdom.  Technically, none of these people should be susceptible to psychic infection because by definition, they are all advanced souls.  They may be advanced spirits even before they become incarnated in a body.  Or it is possible that they may acquire their advanced condition during their lifetime.  All real mystics are psychics. 

A few people undoubtedly are true mystics, but it can be difficult for the rest of us to separate the true mystics from the fakes.  David Koresh, formerly of the Branch Davidian religious sect, was a charismatic figure who had a good vocabulary, an intimate knowledge of the bible, gave great sermons and had an insatiable sex drive.  Jim Jones was a charismatic figure who persuaded nearly a thousand people to accompany him to a remote jungle location which he named “Jonestown”, robbed them of their worldly possessions and social security checks and then proceeded to persuade almost all of them to commit suicide, killing even their own children in the process.  We spoke about these false prophets when discussing spiritual enthrallment and cults in chapter 12.

The founders of the world’s great religions, past and present, were charismatic figures, and probably true mystics.  Their insights created the foundations for the great civilizations of the world.  Moses provided the foundations for Judaism, Islam and Christianity.  It was on Jesus’ shoulders that Christian civilization formed.  Mohamed created Islam. Krishna created Hinduism.  Buddha created Buddhism.  Keep in mind, however, that ALL psychic revelations are filtered through the mindset of the psychic, and all psychics are products of their own time in history.

But remember, there are always false prophets out there ready to enslave you.  No person should ever sell his soul to anyone who claims to be a mystic in return for a promise of redemption or spiritual evolution.  All souls progress by dint of their own understanding and hard work, not by attaching themselves to anyone else through blind faith.

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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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