The great poet, historian and dramatist Friedrich Schiller recognized that the study of universal history were impossible if the mind of the researcher missed the fundamental tension between two opposing paradigms which strike at the heart of the nature of man, god, and reality itself. While this fundamental tension has expressed itself in diverse manners…
Month: August 2023
Plato’s Fight Against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
We are too often drawn into the bad habit of thinking of ancient Greek thinkers like Plato and his teacher Socrates as ivory tower philosophers lost in the abstract realm of “ideas” and utopian ideals detached of all reality and human struggle on earth. In this lecture, Rising Tide Foundation president Cynthia Chung shatters that…
A History of India and Europe Interactions from Ancient Times to Modern
In this talk, Dr Raj Vedam will show the multi-faceted connections between India and Europe from deep historical times to the present times by highlighting multi-disciplinary published evidences. We will discuss ancient interactions and knowledge learnings and show how the interactions became increasingly exploitative through present times. We will show startling instances of cultural and…
An Evening with Carl Zha: Understanding the Dynamics of the Asia Pacific
On Sunday July 16th at 7:30pm, geopolitical analyst Carl Zha delivered a lecture to the Rising Tide Foundation on the historical and present dynamics shaping the Asia Pacific with a look towards the opposing views of morality, civilization and the future shaping the world. Become a supporter of Carl Zha on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel Follow…
Uncovering the Lost Secrets of Weber’s Electrodynamics (Dr Andre Assis RTF Lecture)
Everyone knows that a revolution in physics occured with Max Planck’s insights into the quantum world over a century ago. But did you know that 50 years before Planck’s revolutionary insights into the quantum of action, the great German scientist Wilhelm Weber, working with a network of great renaissance scientists like Carl F. Gauss, Bernard…
Towards a New Study of Planetary Science: Expansion Tectonics 101 [James Maxlow RTF Lecture]
What evidence exists to demonstrate the constant radius of the Earth and is there evidence pointing to a more dynamic model of planetary geometry? In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, delivered as part of the Science Unshackled Symposium, Professor James Maxlow, an expert in expansion plate tectonics lays out an incredible argument with empiricle evidence…
Solving The Mystery Behind the Building of the Great Pyramid
By Dr. Quan Le Some words about a mesmerizing documentary Grande Pyramide K 2019 by director Fehmi Krasniqi. Its premiere was in Paris on September 2019 and it’s available for free on the Internet since December 2019. For people interested in the history of Egypt in particular and of mankind in general, it’s an absolute…
Africa’s Emerging Renaissance: The New Silk Road and Beyond
In this RTF lecture, African affairs expert Lawrence Freeman delivers a comprehensive analysis of Africa’s current struggle to break free of the chains of imperialism and leap into the 21st century. Speaker Bio: Lawrence Freeman is a political-economic analyst for Africa with thirty years of experience on the continent. He is a physical economist who…
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…