The Woke Soul: A Beautiful Story

Wokeism shares the traditional belief that only our incorporeal elements are capable of greatness, elevation, or enlightenment.

The American Spirit Essays #24

(continued from Physicality and Psychology)

(This essay is adapted from my July 2022 article in Human Events)

From Science to Spirit

Though Woke like to cast their faith in the language of science, the Trans Movement provides an impossible challenge.  The healthy Trans brain receives genetic, physiological, and endocrinological signals saying (for example) “male,” yet knows that it is truly female.  What’s the source of that knowledge? 

The Woke themselves offer few insights. Why?  Perhaps because the only plausible answer makes them uncomfortable—and the Woke are hardly known for welcoming their own discomfort. Comfortable or not, however, such core questions underpinning such an important contemporary movement deserve answers. As with all things that seem to make little sense—yet are indeed occurring—the answers must lie where few have been willing to look. that be?

The immense appeal of the Trans Movement provides a clue. A movement that touches so few lives yet has such broad resonance must speak to people at a visceral level. It must address a widespread need—albeit one that is rarely articulated and often denied. What unarticulated need might the notion of an internal source of true identity address for the many Woke who are not trans themselves and who may not even know any transes personally?

The answer lies in the spiritual realm. The Trans Movement fills one of the most basic spiritual vacuums created when America’s elite rejected traditional faith. Listen closely, and you can even hear some adherents tell a tale that is both meaningful and beautiful:

We humans arrive in this world with two selves. Our outer selves are physical and tangible, genetic, biological, and sexed. Our inner selves are intangible, psychological, emotional, and gendered. Our outer selves are little more than shells within which our true inner selves must function. Only our inner selves define our true essence. Only the inner self makes us who we are. Only the inner self gives meaning to life. Our task, as individuals, is to align our lives with our essential inner truths.

The majority among us—those of us fortunate enough to have been born with perfectly aligned inner and outer selves—should be grateful for the gift. Those who must alter their outer selves to align their bodies with essential inner truth face a far greater challenge. The Woke believe that a just society must eliminate all hurdles impeding that alignment. A just society must take all steps necessary to ease all transitions from falsehood to truth.