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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Why is Theodicy important?

For us living on the earth, evil is a very real thing.  St. Augustine’s theological belief that evil does not exist means little to someone faced with the death of a loved one at the hands of a terrorist or a criminal murderer.  There is never a question in our minds that the hand that wielded the weapon belonged to someone with evil in his or her soul.  Today, evil, and all the euphemistic terms used to describe it, has become a popular tool, flung at powerful people to denigrate their reputations among the credulous population.  

Because we live within the world of matter, evil looks like an odious form of matter that sometimes seems to fill the world or the souls of some human beings.  

However, God and the beings in the higher astral realm are spiritual beings.  There is NO matter in the spiritual world.  In the heavenly world, evil is simply ignorance and spiritual darkness, and it can be dispelled with knowledge and spiritual light. The world of Spirit is a structure in which virtually every soul can progress regardless of its state when it leaves its body behind.  The definition of evil means everything when defining a spiritual world that allows for a dynamic heaven and Hell. 

God, and everything in His spiritual realm is a state of consciousness.  Our world of matter is really a temporary training ground; a world of limitation designed to allow us to gain our spiritual footing.  It’s really just a big playpen where we have enough freedom to crawl around, but not enough to run around breaking the spiritual furniture.  Matter allows us to learn the difference between good and evil in an arena in which evil can take on a material disguise.  Matter makes it easier for us to visualize and ultimately understand our spiritual heading.  It allows us to see evil in a form we can understand.  

That’s why we see evil as a form of matter.  It’s a crutch to be used until we see evil for what it really is…emptiness of the human soul.  Let me repeat that.  Evil is really nothing more than the emptiness of the human soul!!

The human soul is a vessel, a tiny spark, struck from the Body of God.  As a result, the human vessel is built to carry only the light of God.  Nothing else can fill a soul.

In the light of that statement, consider this: A soul filled with a substance called “evil” would be quite different from the soul emptied of good.  It speaks to redemption, and also to spiritual sanitation.  

A soul filled with evil cannot be filled with good until all the evil is removed first.  But who is expected to do that?  Would it be some self-appointed authority who decides who is evil and who is not?  We all know how that worked out in medieval and 20th century Europe, and in Cambodia and North Korea. It would be up to the individual to do it himself. But the self-removal of evil would be very difficult, akin to quitting a long term drug addiction. Most evil people don’t even realize their own evil.  You can’t remove something you can’t even see.

And what happens to all that evil once it is removed from the soul?  Does it just lie around in piles waiting for some other poor soul to step in it?  And even if a soul could entirely empty itself of evil, what’s to prevent it from filling the void with evil again, like a drug addict that keeps going back to their drug after a tenth try at rehab.    

   On the other hand, a soul empty of goodness can still be redeemed by the simple process of voluntarily filling itself with light.  And the light is always flowing down from God, like sunlight from the sun.  Like rain from the sky, it naturally fills empty vessels.  At least it fills them as long as they are open vessels.  The trick isn’t to find a front loader to remove the evil and a dump truck to haul it away so that the vessel may be refilled.  The trick is simply to persuade the vessel to open of its own free will so the light can flow in.  That’s what evolution of the spirit means.

It is this idea that sprang from Zoroaster and continued through the Jewish people and finally to St Augustine which allows us to believe in the final redemption of virtually any soul.  The evolution of every spirit is defined by its openness to God’s wisdom, and NOT by the evil it contains!  If free will can shut out the good pouring from the heavens, then free will can open the portals to let it in.  

This doesn’t mean that evil doesn’t exist.  It certainly does!  It is, unfortunately, plentiful in our material world.  But not in the world of spirit!  No soul can contain evil.  Human bodies can be possessed by evil spirits.  Human souls can be enthralled by earthly evil.  But an evil human soul whether on earth or in the world of spirit is really just an empty soul, and an empty soul is an ignorant soul!

Empty souls try to fill the emptiness with rage, hate, narcissism and any number of addictions.  Empty souls commit evil acts because they feel their emptiness.  They feel the need to fill that emptiness with something and evil acts give them the illusion of fulfillment.  But remember that all souls are really just sparks struck off from God’s body.  Souls are made from God’s own substance, and nothing can fill a soul except more of God’s light.  The soul remains empty in spite of its acts.  That’s why empty souls must continue to commit evil acts.  It’s an addiction, like a drug.  

Some empty souls even unintentionally invite other empty (evil) spirits into their earthly bodies to keep them company, (possession).  They are only looking for a way to fill their own emptiness.  Now there are two empty souls in the same body.  But when released from the body, both souls go their own empty ways.  

There may well be souls that are beyond redemption; souls that are defective vessels; souls that remain empty because they are unable, or even just permanently unwilling ever to open themselves to the light.  No one living really knows their ultimate fates.  No information ever escapes from the deepest of the hells. (See chapter 5 on the Structure of Heaven.)

But no matter how empty the vessel, it can always be filled again if only it opens itself to the light from above.  We are all spirits, and each of us has all of eternity to fill our emptiness.  The more light we embody, the more fulfilled we become and the higher we ascend.  The higher we ascend, the closer we are to becoming a part of God’s great consciousness.

In the chapters that follow, I refer to evil spirits because, to us on earth, they are evil.  To God, they are really just empty souls.

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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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