RTF Docu-Series Is it truly the case that in order to live in harmony with nature, industrial activity must be eliminated? Can green energy systems support our current world population and is it possible to have an advanced growing thriving world civilization while also enjoying growing, thriving ecosystems? In this first of a six part…
From Particles To Waves: A Paradigm Shift in Health Science
In this Sunday’s Rising Tide Foundation symposium, Jan Wellmann speaks about optical biophysics (the electromagnetic dynamics of cellular health) and much more. Biography: Jan Wellmann is an entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of frequency medicine pioneer FrequenCell Inc, and a counselor for energetic lifestyle who publishes on Coherent Reality Substack
Dr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics
By Matthew Ehret On February 8, 2022, Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr Luc Montagnier passed away. An this essay will discuss an important aspect of Montagnier’s contribution to human knowledge which has fallen under the radar of too many analysts and citizens, which I believe he would want to be remembered by. What is Optical…
Are We Destined to Act on the Future? Optical Biophysics as a Teleological Approach to Science
In this 2013 lecture, Rising Tide Foundation director Matthew Ehret presents an introduction to the scientific discoveries that shaped our understanding of matter, electromagnetism and how the revolution in field theory gives us a better way to observe how systems of non-living, living, and cognitive matter are organised by future states of existence. By investigating…
SONG OF THE CRAB NEBULA or “The Shadow of a Magnitude”
By Dan Leach Long before the first eyes ever saw me Floating like a ghost upon the night, Long before human minds even feebly Pierced beyond their dimly shrouded sight, I was there, though clothed in different raiment, Blazing like your own, my brother sun, Over unimagined reaches distant, When your…
Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach
By David Gosselin It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound – that he will never get over…
Beyond the Lines: On Shelley’s “Ode to a Skylark”
By David Gosselin “To a Skylark” is perhaps one of the greatest nests of poetic paradoxes in the history of English poetry. Its language is shaped around the creation of ironical images, starting with the enigmatic “Hail to thee, blithe Spirit/Bird thou never wert!” and proceeding to describe “unpremeditated art,” “a cloud of fire” and…
The Red Sky: A Parable
By Adam Sedia After crossing the Great Mountains, I saw before me, to the west, a vast and sprawling plain. Many great rivers crossed its fertile fields, teeming at that time of year with wheat and cotton. Yet it has no cities to speak of–only small villages scattered about. The simple folk of the foothills…
Breaking the Binds: Curing Western Schizophrenia
By David Gosselin They are playing a game. They are playing at notplaying a game. If I show them I see they are, Ishall break the rules and they will punish me.I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game. Knots – R.D. Laing (Psychiatrist and Tavistock Insitute resident) In the 1950s and 60s, R.D. Laing,…
Schiller vs. the Congress For Cultural Freedom
By Irene Eckert No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice,When the burden grows unbearable, he appealsWith fearless heart to Heaven,And thence brings down his everlasting rights,Which there abide, inalienably his,And indestructible as stars themselves. -Friedrich Schiller, Rutli Oath, Wilhelm Tell With the global call for FREEDOM as…
John F. Kennedy’s Fight to Stop WW3 and America’s Tragic Slide into Empire
On Sunday Nov 19, Rising Tide Foundation President Cynthia Chung delivered a presentation honoring the life’s mission, and combat against imperialism and the threat of WW3 led by America’s martyred president John F. Kennedy who’s life was cut short in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963.
RTF Review of “Seven Days in May”
John Frankenheimer’s “Seven Days in May” (1964) may be a Hollywood movie but it is also an incredibly insightful account of the problem with Cold War thinking, based off of the book by the same title. At the time it was meant to be a lesson and warning to those who allowed themselves to be…
WHAT is Sovereignty and HOW to Achieve it? WHO is Sovereign and Why?
In this lecture by Dr. Quan Le there will be a focus on the ideas created & some events having occurred during the Zhou dynasty (1046 to 256 BCE), the Han dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE), the Tang dynasty (618-907), the Song dynasty (960-1279), the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and ending with a famous line…
In Defence of King Arthur
Who was the real King Arthur and what did this man do to shape the course of world history during the early years of Rome’s collapse? Speaker bio: Gerald Therrien is a historian and author of a four volume series on Canadian History entitled Canadian History Unveiled and has lectured on topics ranging from poetry,…
Dark Ages: What Are They and Are We Headed for One?
“Dark Age” is a term bandied about shamelessly in discourse, but in its strictest sense a dark age occurs when a society completely loses literacy. This presentation will explore three dark ages: the Greek Dark Ages after the fall of Mycenean society (11th-8th centuries BC); the Nubian “X-Group” after the fall of the Kushite Empire…
How to Save a Republic Part Two: Lincoln and the Greenbacks
By Matthew Ehret In my last paper I introduced the figure of Alexander Hamilton (first Treasury Secretary and founder of the American System of political economy). I reviewed how America was saved from an early dismemberment in the early years of chaos after 1783’s Peace of Paris which finally ended the war with Britain but left…
How to Save a Republic Part One: Hamilton’s Genius
By Matthew Ehret Today’s world calls out desperately for a systemic change. This means not only a change in thinking about diplomacy, the superiority of win-win cooperation over “might makes right”, but it also means a change in thinking about value itself. Everyone agrees that money is useful and few people would say that they…
Get Your Copy of “Defeating Slavery” Now by Nancy Spannaus!
As of today, both the softcover and e-book versions of Nancy Spannaus’ latest book, Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way, are available for sale on amazon.com. The paperback, which runs to slightly over 400 pages, is priced at $21.99 USD: to get it, click here. The e-book, priced at $14.99 USD, can be purchased by…
Reconstruction: Struggles to Right a Nation from Turmoil
With the bold flourish of a quill, four million desperate souls became “freed men” on Jan. 1, 1863. Were they really free, or did the battle for their independence and economic survival just begin? What can we today learn about the attempts to overthrow the imperial policies of Great Britain and their supporters in North…
The Russian-China Polar Silk Road Emerges
Whether the Arctic will become a platform for cooperation or warfare has been a question often posed throughout the past 150 years. As early as 1875, a vision for Eurasian-American cooperation was becoming realized as leading Americans and Russians alike foresaw the construction of telegraph and even rail lines across the 100 km Bering Strait…
Biogeochemistry and Open System Thinking With Vladimir Vernadsky
By Matthew Ehret At a recent World Government forum in Dubai, WEF president and Dr Evil look-alike Klaus Schwab made a big deal about systemic changes that were currently underway across the globe and despite the dangers posed by the breakdown, Klaus believed that great opportunities were to be found for those hungry to shape…
Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos, New Translation into Spanish
By Dr. John Plaice Last weekend, walking in the Candelaria, the beautiful historic center of Bogotá, I entered for the first time the Librería Siglo del Hombre La Candelaria. I immediately spotted Descripción de China, Giuseppe Marino’s Spanish translation, published in May 2023, of the first volume of Matteo Ricci’s Della entrata della Compagnia di Giesù e Christianità nella…
Shall We Allow Poets in the Republic?
By Gerald Therrien Much has been written and read about Plato banning poets from the republic – why would he do that? The poet, John Milton, wrote a humorous and ironic poem, ‘On the Platonic Idea as it Was Understood by Aristotle’, that ends – ‘… Ah, Plato, unfading glory of the Academe,If you were…
Learning to Think Like Mencius During a Time of Crisis (Full Reading)
Full Readings Will Now Be Available in the Menu Bar. Since ancient times, philosophers have sought the remedy to humanity’s recurrent plunges into war, division, chaos, ignorance and all the moral, temporal and spiritual ills that accompany those disharmonies. In ancient Greece, this effort was spearheaded by Plato (427-347 BCE) and his school of disciples…
The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Episode 1: Lifting the Esoteric Veil
In this first episode of the new 8 part series ‘The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs’ produced by the Canadian Patriot Review and co-created by Cynthia Chung and Matthew Ehret and edited by Jason Dahl, the ancient mystery religions of the pre-Christian world are introduced in order to set the stage for the growth of the…
Escaping Paradise: Huxley’s Island and the Food of the Gods?
By David Gosselin (originally published on The Age of the Muses) “If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.” ― Aldous Huxley Parting with our illusions is never easy. We love them as though they were the real thing. Indeed, the power of…
How Tragedy Can Heal Society: The Oresteia as Political Therapy with Dr. Nicolai Petro
What does classical tragedy have to do with geopolitics? Why is it so important for modern statesmen, diplomats to think like Aeschylus and why should more artists think like statesmen? In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr Nicolai Petro introduces classical Greek Tragedy from a moral, and philosophical perspective containing within its essence, the necessary…
The Art of Political Lying
By Matthew Ehret With idle tales this fills our empty ears;The next reports what from the first he hears;The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,Each author adding to the former lies.Here vain credulity, with new desires,Leads us astray, and groundless joy inspires;The dubious whispers, tumults fresh designed,And chilling fears astound the anxious mind. -Ovid’s…
St Augustine’s City of God and Lessons for Today’s Religious Wars
By Matthew Ehret Last week, I published an article on The Truth of the Peace of Westphalia followed up with the forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim-Confucian Alliance of the 8-9th century. The following story should be seen as a continuation of that unfolding series. It isn’t often that a generation lives through a systemic breakdown crisis. While many shallower minds are quick…
Why the Jews of Khazaria, the Himyarites and GokTurk Empire are Keys to Universal History
By Matthew Ehret This article was also presented by the author as a class, as part of the RTF Lecture Series “The Renaissance Principle Across the Ages“. With the fires of potential global war once again erupting across the Middle East, and with obvious anti-jewish rage amplifying to an extreme degree, I would like to take…
The Peace of Westphalia as a Lesson in Solving Religious Wars Past Present or Future
By Matthew Ehret In 1999, a seemingly innocuous speech occurred in Chicago that unveiled a new paradigm in world affairs that was dubbed “the Blair Doctrine”. In this speech, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair asserted that the realities of the new age of terrorism had rendered the respect for sovereign nation states irrelevant and obsolete requiring a…
James Fenimore Cooper’s ‘The Bravo’: A Lesson in Political Intelligence
By Cynthia Chung [This is a transcript of an RTF lecture that was delivered as part of the “Storytelling, Myth-making and the Shaping of Universal History” Symposium.] So the subject of this class, as the title would suggest, is on James Fenimore Cooper’s ‘The Bravo,’ and I am sure many people here are probably aware of…
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…
Mathematicians, Musicians and the Music of the Spheres
By Dr. Quan Le The Chinese ‘Four Books’ are the epistemological treatises of the Confucian School. The Five Books (or ‘Five Classics’) are the cultural legacy of the Ji Royal House aka the Zhou dynasty (1046-256 BCE) Less known in the West are the Ten Classics of Mathematics. The Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art…
Local Motion or Action-at-a-Distance: The Permanent Debate [RTF Lecture with Dr. John Plaice]
With the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century came the understanding that the same scientific laws govern events in the heavens and on Earth. With this change of outlook came a new problem: How can bodies that are very distant from each other mutually affect their respective motions? Broadly, two points of view have confronted…
The Fourth Phase of Water – Beyond the Three You Already Know (RTF Lecture with Dr. Gerald Pollack)
This Sunday Oct. 15, The Rising Tide Foundation was proud to host Dr. Gerald Pollack- who’s pioneering work on the Fourth Phase of Water is among the most important and under-appreciated fields of research in science today. The lecture, Dr. Pollach’s biography follow below followed by links to his books Speaker Bio Gerald Pollack received…
The Stupidity of Artificial Intelligence (RTF Lecture)
During this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, the history of Artificial Intelligence is examined from the 19th century to the present as the following questions are posed: 1) Is it truly possible to replicate the full spectrum of human mentation with “machine learning” as is popularly presumed today? 2) What are the positive roles for computer…
Towards a Culture of the Noösphere: Gigantic Shadows of Futurity Part II
By Aaron Halevy Life on Earth has faced many extinctions in its past. These extinctions are recognized to be on a scale of magnitude at least as big as our galaxy. What force could oppose such an immense fate? So far no life on Earth has figured out the solution to avoid such a crisis….
The Trans Geopolitical Roots of Space Exploration
By Matthew Ehret In these days of profound uncertainty, it is comforting knowing that certain fundamental truths still exist and serve as guiding lights through the dark waters. Among the highest of those fundamental truths are those enunciated in 1967 by Reverend Martin Luther King who ruminated over the dangers of imperialism and nuclear war…
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…
Save Lake Chad with Transaqua: Nkrumah and FDR Would Concur
By Lawrence Freeman After two months, the deliberations from the “International Conference on Saving Lake Chad” held in Abuja, Nigeria from February 26-28, 2018 are still reverberating, and will continue to do so. This historic conference, the first of its kind to be convened on the African continent, was initiated and sponsored by the Nigerian…
The BRI in Africa: Gateway to Peace or Debt Trap Diplomacy?
In this episode of Spotlight on Africa on Los Angeles’ KPFK Radio, Matt Ehret was invited to speak on the most pressing developments across the African continent and the ironies of Africa’s aspirations for independence and development which are entirely in sync with the best of the lost anti-imperial traditions represented by the USA. A…
On Optimism: A Chant of Darkness
By Cynthia Chung “So my optimism is no mild and unreasoning satisfaction. A poet once said I must be happy because I did not see the bare, cold present, but lived in a beautiful dream. I do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present – not cold, but warm;…
Paul Robeson: His Life as an Unfinished Symphony
Many know of the name Paul Robeson as a great baritone singer and actor of the early 20th century… but few know of Paul Robeson as the cultural warrior, renaissance man and world citizen who created the foundations for the civil rights movement, played a leading role in the international anti-colonial freedom struggle, or anti-fascist…
Symposium: Cultural Optimism, Art and the New Silk Road
On Sunday April 28, 2019, a symposium hosted by the Rising Tide Foundation was held in Montreal, Canada dealing with the unified growth of cultural optimism, beautiful art and economic development as it is being manifested today with the New Silk Road in Asia, Africa and beyond. Presentations were given by a pianist, a dancer,…
Study of the Heavens: a History of Chinese Astronomy
Transcript of a lecture given by Cynthia Chung at ‘The Universe, Creativity and You‘ Symposium. We live in a strange time. Many have forgotten the power of imagination and are instead bogged down with the reality of ‘practicality’. The reality of ‘the budget’, and the reality of ‘what is deemed useful and what is deemed…
Plato’s Republic vs Klaus’ Great Narrative: Who Guards the Guardians?
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Matthew Ehret introduces the two opposing solutions to the One/Many problem of governance first developed by Plato through the character of his mentor Socrates 2400 years ago. The question in its basic terms can be summarized the following way: IF human society is capable of breaking free of the…
Beyond the Lines: Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
By Adam Sedia Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is one of his shortest works, but also one of his best known, anthologized to the point of ubiquity. But it deserves every bit of the reputation it has gained. Short, yet powerful and descriptive, it illustrates the sonnet at its best. And it is one of the…
Unifying Spirit between East and West: Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Italian Renaissance painter in the Forbidden City.
By Matthew Ehret “In pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative, we should ensure that when it comes to different civilizations, exchange will replace estrangement, mutual learning will replace clashes, and coexistence will replace a sense of superiority. This will boost mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual trust among different countries” -Xi Jinping, Belt and Road…
Why the Poetic Principle is Imperative for Statecraft
Cynthia Chung Today, perhaps more so than at any time in history, we are experiencing a divide between what is considered to be the “domain” or “confinement” of art as wholly separate from the domain of “politics.” The irony of such a perception is its failure to recognise that the root of our political system…
Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed
The following is the transcript of a lecture I delivered this past March in Basel, Switzerland as part of the Kernpunkte Kongress. Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed A Study on the Abolition of Man By Cynthia Chung In 2018 Yuval Harari delivered a presentation to the World Economic…
How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire
By Cynthia Chung This is a transcription of a lecture, which can be found here, given as part of the RTF series “Art, Science and Civilization: The Renaissance Principles Across the Ages.“ It is common today to be confronted with the belief that any country, any civilization that gains a certain degree of power, will…
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…
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…
Afghanistan’s Silk Road Heritage and a New Hope for Southwest Asia
By Matthew Ehret Nature deplores a vacuum, and one of the largest vacuums in recent history awaits to be filled as the United States departs from Afghanistan after 20 years, millions of lives lost, and over $2.2 trillion spent to send the once proud pearl on the Ancient Silk Road back to the stone age….
The ‘Clean Break’ Doctrine: A Modern-Day Sykes-Picot Waging War and Havoc in the Middle East
By Cynthia Chung In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then in his first term as Prime Minister of Israel, as a how-to manual on approaching regime change in the Middle East and…