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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Wilson Van Dusen

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In 1972, Wilson Van Dusen, a practicing psychiatrist, wrote a book about his patients and the eighteenth century scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. The relationship between Swedenborg and Wilson Van Dusen is founded upon the confluence of their respective researches.  When Van Dusen wrote The Presence of spirits in Madness, he was Chief Psychologist at Mendocino State Hospital in California.  He had spent 17 years there working among the mentally ill, and during his time at Mendocino State, he practiced standard psychiatric techniques.  He was, however, a fan of Swedenborg and had read all of his writings.  

Over the course of about ten years, he noticed a correlation between the hallucinations of his patients and the things that Swedenborg had written about his spiritual experiences. Thus, he began to experiment with a phenomenological approach to his patients’ hallucinations.  Although he did this in his free time, and this approach was aimed more at research than at healing his patients (unlike Adam Crabtree who, eleven years later, actually used these techniques to cure his patients), he began to analyze the patients’ hallucinations and discovered that the “entities” the patients were hallucinating fit into classifications exactly like those described by Swedenborg in his best known work, Heaven and Hell, published in 1758.  This work is a spiritual and experiential analysis of the spirit world that Swedenborg had been experiencing for the fifteen years before he wrote the book.  

Van Dusen’s patients included chronic schizophrenics, bipolar patients, alcoholics, brain-damaged and senile people.  He studied the ones who were communicative and who had vivid aural hallucinations (voices in their heads.).  They were all in the hospital simply because their inner thought process made it difficult or impossible for them to function outside of a protected setting.  In most cases, patients experiencing hallucinations are unable to distinguish reality from their hallucinated visions and voices.  However, quite a few of his patients at Mendocino State were more lucid and could distinguish their hallucinated voices from reality.  These patients worked quite hard at hiding what they saw as their disability from the real world, but were not always able to do so, which is why they were living in a mental hospital.  

After much prodding, Van Dusen found that such patients generally considered their hallucinated personalities to be real entities who resided in “another world.”  None thought that the voices were hallucinations, but rather were actual persons living inside their minds.  Van Dusen found that he could speak to the hallucinated voices as though they were separate persons who happened to be invisible.  He would ask questions, and the patient would then give a word-for-word account of what the voices said.  

Using this technique, he discovered that these hallucinations had what seemed like real personalities, entirely independent of the personality possessed by the patient him/herself.  They were often terrified of him and needed reassurance that he was not their enemy.  After a while, he was able to begin treating the hallucinations themselves as real persons, and to turn an interview with a patient into a “group therapy” session in which the patient and any number of the patient’s hallucinated personalities would take part.  

All of these patients described the voices as sounding and feeling like real voices.  Sometimes, the voices were louder or softer than normal voices, but they sounded and felt real nevertheless.  Patients referred to the voices using their own terminology.  They would call them “The Other Order”, “The Eavesdroppers”, or some term that would describe them as real but somehow occupying a reality different from their own.  Most of these patients came to realize they were having experiences that other people did not share and learned to keep quiet about them.  

Van Dusen found that his patients experienced two distinct “orders” of voices.  There was a higher order and a lower order.  It was at this point in his career that Van Dusen realized that these “voices” corresponded exactly with the “angels” and the “devils” described by Swedenborg in Heaven and its Wonders and Hell published in 1758.  It was also at this point that he began to contemplate writing his book on Emanuel Swedenborg.  (The presence of other worlds: The psychological and spiritual findings of Emanuel Swedenborg; reissued by the Swedenborg Foundation, 1991.)

Swedenborg was not referring to the angels and demons that biblical tradition says God created prior to creating the earth, but rather to the spirits of deceased persons whose habits and attitudes during their lives made them either angels or devils after their deaths.  Van Dusen began to think that perhaps Swedenborg was right and that his high and low order voices could, at least in a phenomenological sense, be interpreted and treated as individual spirits who were themselves in need of psychiatric help.

Swedenborg denied that there was any immortal “Satan” who was a king of evil spirits.  He saw evil spirits simply as banal and ignorant “low class” people who had passed away, but were unaware of their transition from life to an existence as spirits without physical bodies.  Swedenborg believed that there are millions of these lowly “devils”, all narcissistically (selfishly) vying for superiority over each other, and longing for some way to make their presence known.  Van Dussen came to believe that some of his patients’ voices were actually the thoughts of these discarnate “bums”.

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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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