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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Why are the dark spheres necessary?

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One of the most important tenants of all mainstream religions is the looming prospect of Hell!  As you learned in chapter 5, the historical consensus on the structure of the spiritual world contains at least one lower plane which is dark and unpleasant.  Whether or not you believe in Satan, fire and brimstone, with little red devils and their pitchforks, Hell would not be a nice place to spend eternity if you had to go there after you died.  Foundational religions not only acknowledge this, but rely upon evil and fanciful descriptions of the lower planes to enforce the political laws that have accreted around their core of spirituality.  

Let me state at the outset that some modern mediums do not believe in any form of darkness within the spirit realm.  They believe that when a person dies, he or she is transformed from a person who lived an evil life into a purified spirit who quickly gains heavenly enlightenment and begins a process of self-purification.  They treat the Hellish parts of the spiritual world as non-existent or at most, more of an inconvenience than as a serious domain of heaven.  They envision them as places where spirits go voluntarily because they regret their evil lives.  

It may be that these mediums have had little or no contact with spirits who occupy these planes, or that to condemn any soul to the “outer darkness”, even for a finite time, would infer prolonged punishment for bad behaviors that they excuse or overlook in others for personal reasons.  Being judgmental has become a modern sin.  Many people today, in an effort to be non-judgmental in a “politically correct” world, find it easier to ban the dark spheres themselves than it is to believe in punishment for those who may, in fact, need serious rehab to make them understand their own evil lives. 

The evidence of violent hauntings and demonic possessions has been around long before the advent of any modern religion. And so has the evidence for Hell.  In order to believe that the lower spheres do not exist, one would have to ignore the voluminous evidence for evil or ignorant spirits and the reports of the mediums who deal with them.  You would have to ignore demonic possessions and the exorcisms that are used to fight them.  You would have to ignore the huge number of reports of poltergeist infestations and hauntings by evil spirits.  You would also have to ignore the incredible number of evil people who commit unspeakable crimes and die entirely unrepentant.  Do you really believe that the mere fact of their deaths would make these evil souls regret having lived evil lives?

It is much easier to find compelling evidence of evil spirits in the paranormal literature than it is to find genuine evidence of God.  God, after all, works in subtle ways and acts exclusively through spirits that remain closer to us in our material plane.  The dark spheres are as much a part of the spiritual world as prisons are within our own.  They serve a very vital function.  Evil spirits don’t regret their evil lives until they have had ample time to taste the evil that they themselves have wrought upon others while living on earth.  That’s the function of the hells.  They are the places where evil souls learn the reality of their own darkness.

The dark planes are not meant to be permanent places of punishment.  They are simply dark suburbs of heaven where spirits steeped in negativity deal with others of their kind and can experience their own negativity as if it were reflected back at them by a mirror. They are simply “the lower reaches of Heaven”; planes where spirits who would otherwise disrupt the evolution of the better-natured souls on the higher planes are confined, and allowed to develop at their own pace.  They may spend what seems to them like centuries of earth time learning their lessons, but eventually most will learn and graduate to progressively brighter spheres.

The spirit of Francis Banks as channeled by Helen Grieves in her book Testimony of Light gives an extremely believable account of the brightness of her heavenly realm and a single hint of a darker one.  She tells the story of a Nazi leader who became one of her spirit patients.  (She had been a Catholic nun working as a hospital nurse and administrator before she died.  The first rung on her spiritual ladder after the death of her body was in a spiritual hospital working alongside other Catholic nuns and priests, ministering to the spirits of patients who had recently crossed over.)

The man had been a Nazi leader; well-known and extremely powerful during the last war.  After the downfall of Germany, he had committed suicide. (I cannot give his name, but it is not Hitler.)  Since that time he had been “lodged in the shadows.”  Mother Florence explained that he had been “wandering in the lower places.”  You would no doubt refer to this dark place as the “lower astral.”  In any case, for twenty earth years, he had been imprisoned by his own evil. (Editor’s note: this work was channeled in 1969)

Now he had been rescued.  He was conscious of his terrible cruelty and filled with remorse.  Mother Florence warned us that he would need very special nursing, care, understanding and help.  Also that we might get a shock at his appearance which, I gathered was not a sight such as I had ever witnessed.

Mother also warned us to draw “a web of protection” around ourselves and to hold firmly to the light.  

I was apprehensive as we went toward a separate ward at the far end of the home.  But not prepared for the sight that met us.  

The ward was dark and gloomy, very different from our usual light and sunny rooms.  A pall of murky twilight seemed to hover over it.  Only slowly did it become apparent to us that “something” lay on the bed.  I looked away quickly from the repellent sight.  The poor creature’s body appeared to be covered with sores and scars; the eyes were closed.

“He thinks he is blind” Mother Florence whispered.  “He is not of course.  But the light here is too bright and penetrating for him as yet; and he cries out that it has blinded him.”

The man was a terrible and pathetic sight.  As I looked away again I became aware of Father Joseph, who sat at the head of the bed behind the patient.

“In the next ward,” Mother Florence was saying, “is a woman who was one of his victims, a young Jewish mother who has arrived with him.  She has been bound to him by her deep hatred.  But she is progressing because she had real love in her heart for her husband and child who were snatched from her.  She has the power of Love in her soul.  He, poor creature has not…yet….”

Greaves, Helen (2009-06-25). Testimony of Light: An Extraordinary Message of Life after Death. Penguin Publishing Group.

Remember that the act of dying does NOT endow any soul with an infinite knowledge of right and wrong.  Nor does it expunge the unacknowledged guilt of seriously bad behavior.  No one who has led a reasonably good life would be pleased to find himself after his death occupying the same heavenly domain as Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot or any number of serial murderers and sexual predators.  Hell is an essential part of the spiritual world, and without it, neither the earth nor heaven can exist in any coherent and orderly fashion. They would both be full to overflowing with the spirits of crooks, murders and predators!  

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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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