Both the Renaissance and the Enlightenment are gravely misunderstood in the popular imagination. The Renaissance was the culmination of a millennium of thwarted attempts to revive not just classical arts, but the classical worldview. The Renaissance achieved this with the added benefit of Christianity, which emphasized the human being as both rational and creative. To…
Author: Matthew Ehret
On Geopolitics, War and the Role of the Poets (featuring Hall Gardner)
As modern poetry has often been stereotyped as focusing primarily on subjective concerns, this week’s RTF guest lecturer Hall Gardner will lecture briefly on the simple, but seemingly overlooked, fact that geopolitical issues and wars have influenced poets at least since the oral histories of “Homer” and the late Beowolf poet., among many others. He…
Mages of Mutability featuring Philip Collins
Underpinning the field of anthropology is the fundamental question: “What is a man?” The answer espoused by the deviant elite is couched in the Gnostic doctrine of absolute human plasticity. On this doctrine, humanity is bereft of any determinant properties or invariant qualities. Instead, man is infinitely mutable and, as such, is a product of…
Lecture and Preview: Reclaiming the Mysteries with David Gosselin
The Rising Tide Foundation hosts special guest David Gosselin who showcased a teaser trailer of his upcoming film ‘Reclaiming the Mysteries’ followed by an interactive dialogue. This presentation aims to shed light on the ancient battle over the concept of ‘the Mysteries’… What should this word mean? Who should it benefit? Is the realm of…
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Last Knight in England
Gerald Therrien sheds light on the real Geoffrey Chaucer as an epistemological warrior who used the power of the pen to shape entire kingdoms, subvert the growth of the Feudal Norman Barons and corrupting romanticism while also forming the english language. Watch Gerald Therrien’s accompanying lectures here: In Defense of King Arthur • In Defence of King Arthur [Gerald Therrien… Marlowe vs….
Insights into the Human Heart, Tragedy and Wisdom with Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida
On Sunday March 1, 2026, The Rising Tide Foundation hosted the poet, philosopher, lawyer and essayist Carey Jobe in an examination of Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy ‘Troilus and Cresida’. Written in the early 1600s, at roughly the same time as Hamlet and King Lear, Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays. It is…
The Theosophical Roots of Technocracy and the New Age Reset Agenda
On Sunday March 8 at 2pm ET, the RTF weekly seminar played a short selection of a soon-to-be released three part video series titled ‘The Politics of Belief’ by film maker Jamie Davies and speak to the author. Davies discusses the Theosophical Society, and its role in shaping a dark gnostic cosmology at the heart…
The Digital Dehumanization of Modernism – Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Paradigm
In this RTF lecture Dr. Rui Grazina delivered a presentation on the topic of ‘The Digital Dehumanization of Modernism: Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Paradigm’ which featured an in depth presentation of the profound moral, and philosophical challenges faced by the age of Artificial Intelligence, and the potentially devastating loss of creative powers which this…
The Pursuit of Happiness – From Dante and Erasmus to Leibniz and Ben Franklin
This Sunday February 1, 2026, historian Uwe Alschner (author at The Benefit of the Other) presented the Rising Tide Foundation lecture of the week followed by a robust Q and A session with everyone in the live audience. What are the principled ideas that have positively shaped the long arc of human history and liberated…
Simon the Sorcerer and the Birth of Gnosticism
Part four of Augustine vs the Empire series By Matthew Ehret In this fourth installment of this series, we will explore the emergence of a new strategy of warfare against early Christianity. While efforts to destroy the new movement through fire, lions, and direct persecution failed, a more insidious tactic of infiltration via Gnostic cults…