Cicero and Cultural Confidence

By Gerald Therrien Imagine that you are sitting in the great chamber of the Senate, and one Senator, in imitation of the Roman Cato, ends every speech demanding that “Russia Must Be Destroyed”. But soon another Senator, in imitation of the Roman Corculum, speaks that “Russia Must Be Saved”, because if Russia is destroyed, then…

Paolo Sarpi: The Key to Modern Science

A standard presentation of the Scientific Revolution would start with Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric model, continue with the work of Galileo Galilei and Robert Boyle, among others, and culminate with Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. During this period, a radical change in the philosophy underlying how science was to be…

Schiller’s Ghost Seer, Intelligence Methods and a Global Citizenry

A Study of Schiller’s The Ghost Seer By Cynthia Chung [The audio version of this article can be listened to here.] The Ghost Seer first appeared in several instalments in Schiller’s publication journal Thalia from 1787 to 1789, and was later published as a three-volume book. It was one of the most popular works of…

What Determines A Limit to Growth?

By Cynthia Chung This is an article version of a class Cynthia Chung gave for the symposium “The Earth Next 100 Years” which can be viewed here. What Determines a “Limit to Growth”? This might seem like a rather ignorant or simplistic question to some. Many will think the answer rather obvious, that the Limit…

The Discovery of the School of Athens Part 3: The Geometric Proof

By Gerald Therrien Refer here for Part 1 and Part 2 to this series.             Now, we must leave the second scene, and move towards the third and last scene in the painting, and look at those persons who are found in the right foreground, at the bottom of the stairs. But, we had seen,…

Kepler’s Platonic Revolution – A new workshop series begins

On May 3, 2023 The Rising Tide Foundation weekly study group began to work through the metaphysics of the astronomer Johannes Kepler by beginning book 4 of his Harmonies of the World (downloadable here) which saw Kepler introduce his devotion to the Platonic method that lay at the heart of his revolutionary discoveries. As we learned…

From the Beautiful to the Sublime: On Schiller’s “The Guides of Life”

By David Gosselin Two kinds of genius may escort you throughout life.True Goodness falls on him who lets them lead as one.Beauty enlivens and makes brief the winding road;Duty and fate grow lighter with her by your side—She leads with gracefulness and laughter to the edge.And there, mortality waits by eternal seas.There, you’ll discover the Sublime—daring and…

Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century

On Saturday, April 1, the Russian History Museum commemorated the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth with an online lecture by Dr. Valeria Z. Nollan. The lecture, “Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century,” was presented as part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series. Nollan’s lecture was based on Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of…

RTF Review: Ballet’s Secret Code

By Nicholas Jones Ballet’s secret code is a documentary about the Origins and principles behind Maestro Enrico Cecchetti’s lifetime of work and devotion to the Classical humanist art form: Ballet. Madam Julie Cronshaw takes us through the depths of his character, education and philosophy and his work as a Ballet Master under Diaghilev for the…

The British Empire Returns To A 168 Year Crime-a Scene

By Andrew Laverdiere On January 1, 2023, the New York Times published an opinion column by Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British ambassador. His piece, “Putin Has No Red Lines,” is a call for the West, and the United States in particular, to go for maximum confrontation with Russia. The West must drop its remaining hesitations on sending…

Is the Universe Governed by Life or Death?

It was recently brought to my attention that someone had taken my recent five part series ‘Is the Universe Governed by Life or Death’ and turned it into a film adding their own creative twists throughout the script. Throughout my series and this new film, the origins of transhumanism are traced back to the philosophy…

Song of the Volga Boatmen and The Sacred War

Let us all remember today and give thanks to Russia’s noble sacrifice. This has for many years been a very touching Russian folk song close to my heart so I thought I would share with you all. This is a beautiful choral performance of “Song of the Volga Boatmen”: Below is a famous rousing performance…

For Victory Day: It’s Time to Think About Finally Winning WWII

By Matthew Ehret 78 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War. Today, as the world celebrates the 78th anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all? If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want…

The Shocking Truth of the 1938 Munich Agreement

In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation, economic analyst, researcher and historian Alex Krainer shed light on the shocking truth of the 1938 Munich Agreement and broader Tripartite agenda for a fascist world order which nearly succeeded before and even during WW2.

Francisco de Goya: Master Critic of the Human Condition

By Adam Sedia Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of Spain’s best known painters. Heir to the tradition of El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo, and Zurbarán, textbooks consider him the last of the Old Masters and simultaneously first of the moderns. But Goya’s importance derives from a deeply individual approach to his subject matter,…

Sudan: The new geopolitical battlefield between east and west?

By Matthew Ehret – Originally published on The Cradle The story of Sudan is one of contrasts and contradictions. It is a country with tremendous potential and resources, yet it is plagued by poverty, conflict, and exploitation. The forces currently pulling Sudan apart are complex and multifaceted, but one thing is certain: the future of this…

Uncovering the Secret History of the Metric System with Fehmi Krasniqi

In this second part of a series of Rising Tide Foundation interviews with researcher Fehmi Krasniqi, we explore the forgotten ancient origins of the metric system, which involves a multifaceted debunking of the fiction that this scientific method of measurement emerged out of the French Revolution and instead review the evidence pointing to the physical…

A Hamiltonian Solution for Africa (RTF Lecture with Lawrence Freeman)

It has become far too common for westerners to look upon the plight of Africa as a “permanent state of underdevelopment, poverty and famine” from which no genuine solution may ever arise. Citizens of the west are told repeatedly that giving $1/day is the only way they may play some positive role in alleviating Africa’s…

Conceptualizing Humanity’s Long Term Survival: Open vs. Closed Systems

During this March 2, 2021 lecture to a class at the Moscow National Research Nuclear University hosted by Dr. Edward Lozansky, the Rising Tide Foundation’s Matt Ehret introduces the two opposing options for conceptualizing systems both in general terms and with concrete examples in human economics. Whether we choose to assume that boundaries to our…

Halton Arp and the Fight for Our Living Universe

Is there reason to believe that the Big Bang which most scientists believe kick started the universe as we know it 13.7 billion years ago, may not be true? In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Matthew Ehret takes the opportunity to introduce some competing alternatives to Big Bang Cosmology and standard model quantum mechanics which…

RTF Symposium: Science Unshackled (April 2- June 4, 2023)

The Rising Tide Foundation is proud to announce a new symposium under the theme ‘Science Unshackled’ which will tackle themes of truth, discovery, creative thought and how these important attributes of the human species have been subverted by false doctrines across recent history. To access the live events, simply make a donation to RTF on our…

How to Save a Republic Part Three: In Defense of Patriotism

By Matthew Ehret “Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.” – Marquis St. Evrémonde (from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities) A major cultural fight has broken out in the USA…

The International Dimensions of 1776 and How an Age of Reason Was Subverted

By Matthew Ehret Today, a larger-than-usual shadow is cast upon America which has come face-to-face with some serious historic reckonings. While the existence of an oligarchy and international “deep state” should not be ignored as a political force of history- arranging wars, assassinations and promoting economic enslavement of people and nations throughout the centuries, the…

Shakespeare’s Comedies and a Well Ordered Society

Many of Shakespeare’s comedies present a similar theme. Each begins in a sort of chaos and ends in marriage, which restores the proper order. In contrast, his tragedies have societies that are plagued with chaos and are never reordered with the correct priorities. By investigating some of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies, we will discuss what…

The Ancient Celts & Ramayana

By Raj Vedam Ramayana is well-known all over India, and its impact is seen in ancient and popular culture spread across south-east Asia, including Japan, China and Mongolia. I often state the incongruity of Indian culture spreading only to its east, but not to its west — as asserted by Western historians. Several attempts have…

Mei Lanfang’s Tour of America: A Great Moment in China-US Relations

By Philip Valenti               “He is appreciated, not because he is ‘really like an American,’ but because he is truly Chinese.  He has even caused us to question our own dramatic forms and our manners.  And he has led many of us to respect the Chinese and their civilization in a way no amount of…

All Possibilities Actualized, or The Dimensions of Time

By Dr. Michael Clarage Time has different dimensions, just like space. Words like “now”, “eternity”, “possibilities” refer to dimensions of time, just as “length”, “area”, and “volume” refer to dimensions of space. With this essay I hope to show how on the topic of TIME, Physics can re-join its historical siblings after too many years…

Leibniz vs Newton: A Clash of Paradigms

RTF President Cynthia Chung kicks off the symposium ‘As Above so Below: Re-uniting the Macroverse with the Microverse” with a presentation on Leibniz vs Newton: A Clash of Paradigms. This presentation will introduce the principled conflict of two opposing schools of thought materialist/mathematical defined by Newton vs the higher dynamic/metaphysical method embodied by Gottfried Leibniz….

On Lessing’s ‘Nathan the Wise’: Is a Harmony of Cultures Possible?

In this lecture RTF President Cynthia Chung will conduct a discussion on the classical work ‘Nathan the Wise’ by the renaissance humanist Gotthold Lessing. Exploring this work will not merely be an academic exercise of an art piece, but will be a gateway to the essentials of cultural warfare and the wisest methods of conducting…

What is and to what end do we study Universal History?

In 1789, the world was electrified with an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. If this proposition be true, then the entire paradigm of government practiced since ancient times had to be completely transformed from systems of hereditary power enforcing the rule of might makes…

Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolution and the Evolution of the American Republic

In this lecture, historian and author Gerald Therrien introduces the turbulent world of 1787-1804 which shaped (and was in turn shaped by) the Haitian Revolution establishing the world’s second republic. This was a world shaped by battles within America itself between opposing factions of Americans who read the newly established Constitution from diametrically opposing worldviews….

Symposium: Earth’s Next Hundred Years

Date: Sunday September 26 at 7pm ESTTitle: Vol II: Cheikh Anta Diops dream of a United Africa – the economic vision for an African Belt and Road InitiativeLecturer: Nicholas JonesBio: Nicholas is a professional dancer with La Grande Ballet de Montreal who has performed around the world and recently founded the Artists Alliance for Africa as a non-profit devoted…

Will Entropy Define the New World Paradigm?

By Matthew Ehret It has come to my attention in recent years, that the world financial system is one giant bubble sitting atop a hyperbolically growing aggregate of unpayable debts that can do nothing but default at a given moment. Looking at the world from the point of view of the inevitable collapse of the…

The Hidden Story Behind Lincoln’s Assassination

By Matthew Ehret Not that long ago the United States came close to total dissolution. The financial system was bankrupt, speculation had run amok, and all infrastructure had fallen into disarray over the course of 30 years of unbroken free trade. To make matters worse, the nation was on the verge of a civil war…

Plato’s Fight Against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy

By Cynthia Chung Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War and its immediate aftermath, events which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of mainland Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared….

Breaking From Cycles of Destruction by Leaping to a Multipolar Future

By Matthew Ehret As Pepe Escobar outlined in his recent Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar, during the past months, the world saw Eurasian nations take great strides towards the inevitable creation of an alternative financial system capable of withstanding the effects of the onrushing blowout of the $1.5 quadrillion bubble that some still wish…

Ancient Greece and Africa Share Long History

By Nana Coupeau Africans and Ancient Greeks had long, rich history together often reflected in the depiction of Africa in Ancient Greek art. The first contact between Greeks and Africans was sometime during the Bronze Age. At this time, the Minoan culture on Crete flourished and their shipbuilding skills enabled them to travel to far-flung…

Ode to the Orange Tree

Timeless Conversation Between Two Aristocratic Men Gu Yuan & Guo Moruo By Quan Le This is the occasion for expressing some of my desultory remarks on Chinese culture, history and more generally on epistemology, my core interest. Epistemology has 3 theoretical branches : theory of knowledge, heuristics/maieutics and hermeneutics. Epistemology has one practical application at…

The Dope Trade and the Crown: A Very-British Wealth of Nations

By Cynthia Chung The following is from my newly published book “The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set.” “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” –          Henry John Temple, aka Lord Palmerston (Britain’s Prime…

FDR, Stalin and the Untold History of the New Deal

Very shortly, The Clash of the Two Americas will be available to a Russian audience as one giant 600 page behemoth. As part of the promotion for the Russian edition, DenTV and Nashe Zavtra publishing have arranged a series of interviews tackling different aspects of my research. In this week’s discussion with eminent scholar Dionis Kaptari,…

Optical Biophysics, Galaxy Formation and You

Is the universe living or dead? Is living matter just an isolated cased of anti-entropy within an otherwise entropic universe, slowly dying a heat death? Is space empty or saturated with an animating principle? Are the laws of the macro domain truly separate from the atomic domain or are there unifying principles that unite both…

The Magic of the Atom

If human activity moves into planetary bodies, the distances are daunting and challenges manifold. What type of energy sources will be needed to support a species capable of making journies to Mars or beyond? What sort of energy sources would open up new avenues of creativity on earth at the same time? Chemical fuel and…

Who Will Be Brave in Huxley’s New World?

By Cynthia Chung “ ‘Science?’….’Yes,’ Mustapha Mond was saying, ‘that’s another item in the cost of stability. It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled…I’m interested in truth, I like science. But truth’s a menace, science is a public…

V.I. Vernadsky and the American System in Russia

As the dust settled on the American Civil war in 1865, Russia took pride in the fact that this Eurasian nation turned the tide in favor of Lincoln’s cause of preserving the union and abolishing the institution of slavery. Czar Alexander II was also known as “The Great Liberator” for liberating the serfs in 1861…

How to Conquer Tyranny: A Lesson from Plato

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Plato’s Letter VII Plato to Dion’s associates and friends wishes well-doing. You write to me that I must consider your views the same as those of Dion, and you urge me to aid your cause so far as I can…

The Battle for the Mind: How to Exit an Artificial Reality

By Cynthia Chung [This is a transcript of a Rising Tide Foundation lecture delivered December 18, 2022 which can be viewed here.] The above is a picture from George Cukor’s movie ‘Gaslight’ (1944) which is what originated the term “gaslighting.” [The definition of gaslighting is to manipulate someone using psychological methods into questioning their own…

Spenser and Marlowe – God’s Spies

By Gerald Therrien “Come, let’s away to prison:We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laughAt gilded butterflies, and hear poor roguesTalk of court news; and we’ll talk with them…

Symposium: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Statecraft

To view all past symposiums click here. To register for future class series email info@risingtidefoundation.net 1st Movement: The Ancients Date: Sunday May 9 at 4pm ESTTitle: Plato and Confucius, Spiritual Brothers and Philosopher Kings Living at the Two Ends of the World Island Lecturer: Dr. Quan LeBio: Dr. Le is a practicing psychiatrist and geopolitical…