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
    • 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
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Three reasons that GOOD souls get stuck on the transitional plane.

The first reason that good souls get stuck on the transitional plane becoming earthbound spirits is a death that happens very suddenly.  Sometimes the soul has no idea that it has lost its physical body and thinks that it can go on living as before.  This is especially true for atheists who never believed in an afterlife.  They often refuse to acknowledge their deaths and run away from the souls that have come to rescue them thinking that they are ghosts of people they know to be dead, or just hallucinations.

The second reason involves people with unusually strong attachments to the material world, or with unfinished business.  These souls may refuse to move on either because they feel cheated, or because they feel the need to stick around to make sure that something left unfinished is properly resolved.  They often believe that they didn’t really get to complete their lives and want to remain in the earth sphere not realizing that they are no longer a part of the material world.  

Ed Warren and his wife Lorraine, were involved in researching the afterlife for many years.  They tell a story of a woman who, in the 1970’s, shortly after her death, became a ghost in her own house.  She had died in an auto accident in which she was driving home on a snowy night with her own mother when she skidded and hit a tree killing both women instantly.  Lorraine is a trained psychic who was called by the family.  They were experiencing strange things in their home and didn’t know what to make of it.  Lorraine discovered that the ghost was the recently deceased mother.   This now deceased woman had continued her normal daily activities like watching out for the kids, straightening the beds, closing cupboard doors and closing the windows at night.  She was only doing what she started out to do on that snowy night.  She wanted simply to go home and finish the housework.  She didn’t realize she had died.  Lorraine enlightened her about her true circumstances and she left, after which all the ghostly manifestations stopped.

The third reason a good soul could be stranded on the transitional plane is a sense of guilt.  A soul may hesitate to cross over because it is afraid to move on.  It has a guilty conscience and thinks that it will have to face an external judgement and be sent to Hell.  This fear can become especially acute after their life review.  They simply don’t realize that there is no external judgement and that once they cross over, the only judgement is their own.  

A sense of guilt is something that needs to be settled prior to death.  Much of the guilt people feel about themselves involves nothing more than the violation of a religious doctrine.  Religious dogmas are covered in chapter 18 where you will learn that religions only claim to represent God.  They are earthly institutions, and very necessary for the maintenance of an orderly society, but Spirit does not care about church doctrine.  It doesn’t care about your sex life (unless it has led to darkness in someone else’s life), or even if you believe in God.  Just ask yourself this: “Have my actions actually hurt other people?” Did I intentionally carry out evil acts that harmed others to fulfill my own desires?” If the answer to these questions is no, then you shouldn’t feel guilty.  

Ed Warren tells a story about an old porter working at West Point in the nineteenth century.  Ed and Lorraine had been invited by the post commander to find out why invited VIP’s staying in the guest rooms in the commander’s house kept waking up to find some of their personal items missing in the morning, only to be found later in another room.  They were also concerned about one unoccupied bed in the basement of the same building which was often found unmade in the morning when it had been made up the night before.  

Being a medium, Lorraine Warren was able to make contact with the spirit that was haunting the building.  The couple discovered that an old black man, a porter, working at the post during the nineteenth century had accidentally caused the death of another person.  He was eventually acquitted of any crime, but unfortunately, he felt so guilty about it that he carried this guilt with him for the rest of his life, and after his death he remained earthbound wishing to communicate how sorry he was.  The unmade bed in the basement was where he slept when he was alive.  

Remember that spirits bound to the transitional plane have a distorted sense of time and have little short term memory, so the porter had no idea that he was a ghost who had been haunting his quarters for over a hundred years.  It was a matter of his own personal guilt that kept him earthbound. He was caught in a time trap and kept reliving the same day over and over concentrating on his guilt.  While his actions may have contributed to the death of another man, the incident was unintentional.  Intentions mean a great deal in Spirit, and since he was acquitted of any crime, he probably should not have felt guilty.  Ultimately, Lorraine brought him through and was able to release him by granting him the forgiveness he craved.  Lest one believes that this was just a story made up by the Warrens, West Point records were found that testified to the existence of the porter, his trial, and all the particulars of his residence in that building.

In general, good people who die expecting to live again in an afterlife move on, even after a traumatic or unexpected death.  This is especially true of people who have made loving connections in this life and who can expect to be helped along by friends and relatives who will come to the earth sphere from the higher planes to escort the soul to the proper place in Spirit. 

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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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