#5 Alastair McIntosh on Donald Trump's psychohistory, Calvinism in the Western soul, and Scotland reborn

Alastair McIntosh is a human ecologist, theologian, activist, and writer known for his work on the interplay between community, ecology, and spirituality. Alastair is best known for his 2001, but still very timely book, Soil and Soul—part autobiography, part theology, part history.SubscribedWe talk about… The concepts of psychohistory & cultural psychotherapy, and how our deep past, going back many generations, makes us who we are. Alastair’s travel/philosophy/theology book, Poacher’s Pilgrimage How the Scottish Clearances in the 1820s on the Isle of Lewis may be half-responsible for forming Donald Trump into who he is today. For more, read Alastair’s compelling article on the subject. Should Donald Trump pay an extended non-entrepreneurial (and non-golfing?) visit to the Hebrides? Read Alastair’s poem calling Trump to “come home.” The concept of “indigenousness” and if the term can apply to white folks. Ken tries out a big word: “ethnomasochism.” Are we all Calvinists without knowing it? Alastair defines Calvinism with “TULIP.” The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber A free PDF of Alastair’s Island SpiritualityAlastair recommends: Alice Walker’s poetry—Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful And Carmina Gadelica by Alexander Carmichael (get the volume that condenses the six volumes into one)