The Head Doesn't Belong In Heaven

Editorial, 1922

One of the members of the National Spiritualist Association, which has been holding its annual convention in Chicago, gives information quite as interesting and definite as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's concerning the other world. The particular value of this most instructive information is that it authentically describes what we might call spiritualization.

Most of us are too little advised regarding the spirit world. Disappointed as we sometimes are, and even despondent, we are in no hurry to look beyond the grave until we get there, and we are, in our opinion of absolute sanity, in no sanguinary haste to go there.

Now, this scientist of spiritism explains that the feet become spiritualized first, and are the part of the body first to enter heaven. The head is spiritualized last, and, of course, arrives in heaven a yard or two behind the feet.

Another spirit scientist expresses confidence that there are golf links and base ball diamonds in heaven. He argues that it is natural that a person who takes interest in a sport for ten, twenty or more years should retain his interest in that subject after becoming a spirit. From this we may imply that there will be free cigarettes, ice cream, and, perhaps, movies in heaven.

It strikes us as being most unfortunate that the great majority of us finds it to be impossible to obtain facts about the spirits and their world. And then, besides, we don't seem to be rational enough to accept and understand plausible revelations when they are offered to us.

Isn't it somewhat foolish to keep on working, and planning, and thinking, and taking old inspirations on faith, when we could, at will or by profession, practically enter the spirit world? We set such sublime and fond store on what we recognize to be sacred teachings about the other world — yet we could, if we could, obtain authentic and up-to-date knowledge from lights and shadows, which according to their own assurances, are denizens of the spirit world.

No wonder that spiritism scientists tell us that the head is spiritualized last. The wonder is that the head can be spiritualized at all. If there is infinity in the spirit world of modern spiritism, the head does not belong there. If there is anything that the human brain cannot understand it is the infinite, the infinite being supernatural, and the head does not belong in an environment which it is incapable of appreciating.

The average head fully realizes its limitations. This is why it is predisposed to be guided by inspiration concerning the other world. It rests in security on faith.

—The Monessen Daily Independent, Monessen, PA, Oct. 23, 1922, p. 2.