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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7. What happens when we die?

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Fear of death is not only natural, but necessary.  We all have a primal fear of death.  If people didn’t naturally fear death, not many of us would survive our childhoods.  As we age, we fear it for reasons other than sheer animal instinct; fear of the unknown, fear of sickness, fear of pain, fear of suffocation.  

In fact, sickness, pain and discomfort are all parts of the living world, and NOT a part of death.  The process leading to death may be uncomfortable, but the actual dying itself is painless, and a total relief of all the discomforts suffered while still alive.  This applies to everyone, no matter their level of spiritual evolution.  Leaving your body is like slipping out of old, sweaty clothes.

After the death of the body, a vast majority of ordinary souls will find a very refreshing and joyous afterlife.  Most are met on the transitional plane by friends and loved ones who have entered Spirit before them, and are ushered to a more permanent home in the plane of illusion.  Only a minority of souls will not find a welcoming committee.  These are generally ignorant souls who have made few friends during their lives, or those who are shunned because of their own abhorrent behavior.  

Death releases everyone from all of their bodily problems, including disfigurements, diseases, and even lifelong physical deficits.  People who had to live with blindness, dementia, paralysis, fatigue, lost limbs or any form of disfigurement during their lifetimes are restored to health after their deaths.  

The question of spiritual sight for a person who has been blind all of his or her life is an especially interesting question, and one that was studied by Kenneth Ring in a little book entitled Mindsight.  In this book, the authors studied near-death experiences by people who were congenitally blind (have never been able to see since birth) and found that the answer to the question “can the blind see after death?” is yes!  

“NDEs of blind or severely visually impaired persons tend to show all the same features that are typical for sighted persons. This is true despite the fact [they] have been blind from birth.”

The only forms of disability that are retained by souls recently released from their physical bodies are those that have become psychological addictions.  A lot of people who have had their disabilities for a very long time may not realize that as spirits they can walk, see, hear and function as if they never had their disability in the first place.  Some may even be addicted to their disabilities and are fearful of assuming the responsibilities of a fully functioning body.  Most spirits, if they are willing, generally let go of their physical problems as soon as they make contact with other spirits who can guide them to the wellness that is their right in spirit.  In 1972, the English medium Margaret Flavell channeled the spirit of A.D. Mattson who said:

“The healers and physicians on the astral plane concentrate their treatment on making persons realize that their illness is only in their minds and that the mind is influencing the astral body, producing the simulated illness.”

Always remember, you do not have to have lived a perfect life to find yourself in Heaven after you die.  Spirit doesn’t care about your sex life unless it has led to darkness in someone else’s life.  It doesn’t care whether you are rich or poor, or even about most of the things you may have done in your life that made you feel guilty.  It doesn’t care whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Muslim.  It doesn’t even care whether you believe in God or not!  The only ones who descend to the darker Winterlands or into the hells below after crossing over are those that have lived truly self-centered lives and have caused others harm either for their own benefit, or for the benefit of some religious or political cause.

Every person acquires a sort of spiritual buoyancy while living, and that buoyancy determines where the newly arrived spirit will take up its spiritual residence.  Blindly giving to a charity to fulfill an obligation or to soothe a conscience does little to advance the evolution of a soul, but doing an act of charity out of compassion for someone does much.  Blindly attaching oneself to a social or political cause because it is trendy or it makes you feel good means nothing in Spirit.  On the other hand, personally helping individuals to overcome their handicaps reaps at least as much benefit for the giver as it does for the recipient.  A life of self-discipline, self-reliance and responsibility to one’s family means a lot when it comes to finding a place in heaven.  Unfortunately, so does a life filled with Narcissism and greed. 

Note: The Structure of Heaven is a 325 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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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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