How Classical Painting Liberates us from the Shackles of the Senses

An exploration of Schiller’s Aesthetics as it pertains to political revolutions past and future By Matthew Ehret This article is based on a RTF lecture given on Feb. 11, 2019 in Montreal Canada. German poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) wrote his twenty six Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man in 1794 in order to address…

Escaping Calypso’s Island: A Journey Out of Our Green Delusion

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…

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…

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….