The Seba library treats Highlands in 8 passages, across 4 authors (including Alexander, Bruce K., Rudolf Ritsema, Stephen Karcher, Jung, C. G.).
The clearances of the Scottish highlands afford a more detailed case study of how free-market society imposed mass dislocation on older forms of society.
Alexander establishes the Scottish Highlands Clearances as his primary historical case study demonstrating how free-market capitalism destroys traditional psychosocial integration and thereby generates addiction on a mass scale.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008thesis
The pitiless cruelty of the burnings and subsequent exile, including deaths by exposure, starvation, and infectious disease, were documented by first-hand
Alexander details the concrete human costs of the Highlands Clearances — forced exile, death, and the suppression of resistance — as empirical evidence of state-sanctioned dislocation in service of market ideology.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008thesis
The wild-swan Infiltrating tending-towards the highlands. Its feathers permit availing-of activating fundamentals. Significant.
In the I Ching (Hexagram 53), ‘Highlands’ (LU) marks the culminating terrain of the wild-swan’s spiritual ascent, signifying the attainment of elevated ground from which fundamental principles may be enacted.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994thesis
Highlands, LU: high, dry land as distinct from swamps; plateau. 43.5a Reeds, highlands: Parting, Parting. 53.3a,6a The wild-swan Infiltrating tending-towards the highlands.
Ritsema and Karcher define ‘Highlands’ (LU) as a precise oracular category — elevated, dry, stable ground — distinguishing it from the swampy and unstable, and locating it in hexagrams concerned with separation and gradual advance.
, I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change, 1994supporting
Highlands clearances (1750–1850) 105–8
The index entry confirms that the Highlands Clearances occupy a dedicated analytical section within Alexander’s argument, positioning this historical event as a formal pillar of his dislocation theory.
, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit, 2008supporting
By the time Mrs Grant of Laggan wrote her Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders in 1811, theories of the evolution of social development had entered fully into any consideration of primitive peoples.
The passage situates Highlanders within Enlightenment evolutionary frameworks, showing how Highland culture was co-opted as evidence for theories of social progress and civilisational hierarchy.
, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934, 1997supporting
Mrs Grant of Laggan, Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders, 2 vols (London, 1811), vol 1 pp 1-2, 4.
A bibliographic citation pointing to primary source material on Highland superstitions as used in nineteenth-century Scottish literary and cultural discourse.
, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934, 1997aside
0PΩO’lC; [m.pl.] “highlanders”, name of an Epeirotic people (Th.)
The etymological dictionary notes the Greek term for ‘highlanders’ as a derivative of the root meaning ‘elevation’, documenting the ancient semantic connection between mountain terrain and the peoples inhabiting it.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010aside