{"podcast":{"title":"The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz","slug":"the-holy-wild-with-victoria-loorz-7236147","podcast_index_feed_id":7236147,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-holy-wild","website_url":"https://www.wildspirituality.earth/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D7yQHskBpOZjQrAc3YC6fDofk7AB5N7XI96cmF1jgLY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZjAz/YTRjNTQ0YTQ0YmE5/ODgzYjA2MTM2NjEw/NzJmZi5wbmc.jpg","author":"Victoria Loorz","episode_count":33,"summary":"Join author and founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality, Victoria Loorz, as she explores the possibilities of restoring beloved community and sacred conversation with All That Is: human and more-than-human.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T14:17:56.703839+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holy-wild-with-victoria-loorz-7236147"},"episode":{"title":"Healing Displacement & the Scottish Art of Holding Opposites with Alastair McIntosh","slug":"healing-displacement-the-scottish-art-of-holding-opposites-with-alastair-mcintosh","published_at":"2025-10-27T12:26:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holy-wild-with-victoria-loorz-7236147/healing-displacement-the-scottish-art-of-holding-opposites-with-alastair-mcintosh","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holy-wild-with-victoria-loorz-7236147","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/3e700f81","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/3e700f81/674b1386.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Holy Wild , Scottish author and activist Alastair McIntosh explores the spiritual, historical, and ecological roots of our collective crisis of belonging. Grounded in the history of the Highland Clearances, he offers this chapter of Scotland’s past as a lens for understanding global patterns of displacement, from the enslavement of African peoples to the colonization of Indigenous lands and the refugees of our own time. He reveals how being unsettled from land fractures psyche and soul. Mcintosh invites a path toward compassion through the Scottish wisdom of Caledonian antisyzygy , the capacity to hold opposites. He weaves insights on complicity in capitalism, the moral paradoxes of renewable energy and wild land, and the call to reconcile inner and outer divisions. McIntosh calls for a re-membering of what has been dismembered- to rekindle community, restore reverence for the Earth, and awaken the soul of belonging in our time. Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish writer, academic, and activist raised on the Isle of Lewis whose work spans spirituality, community, land reform, and ecology. An honorary professor at the University of Glasgow and currently serving as director of the GalGael Trust, he has been instrumental in Scottish campaigns such as the Isle of Eigg community buy-out and the defense of the Isle of Harris against a proposed mega-quarry. His most recognized book, Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power , stands alongside his most beautiful work, Poacher’s Pilgrimage , a twelve-day walk through the wilds and villages of his home islands of Lewis and Harris. Connect with Alastair: Website: alastairmcintosh.com Book: Soil and Soul Book: Riders On The Storm Book: Poacher's Pilgrimage Book: Rekindling Community Mentioned in the episode:…","meta_description":"In this episode of The Holy Wild , Scottish author and activist Alastair McIntosh explores the spiritual, historical, and ecological roots of our collecti…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3702,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-holy-wild-with-victoria-loorz-7236147/episodes/healing-displacement-the-scottish-art-of-holding-opposites-with-alastair-mcintosh/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-holy-wild-with-victoria-loorz-7236147/healing-displacement-the-scottish-art-of-holding-opposites-with-alastair-mcintosh.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}