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…
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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…
As Rome Goes Dark, Christianity Emerges onto the Stage of History
Part 3 of the Augustine vs Empire series By Matthew Ehret In the last installment of this series, you were introduced to the dominant mystery cults of the Persian and earlier Babylonian Empire that seeded themselves into Athens, and Roman territories transforming each civilization into Marcher Lords of a very ancient evil. In this third installment, we…
The Origins of the Roman Empire… the Mystery Cults Migrate to a New Host
Episode two of Augustine vs the Empire By Matthew Ehret In the previous installment of this series, you were introduced to the story of Rome’s moral decay from a republic into an evil empire, and the battle which St. Augustine of Hippo engaged in during the last phases of the western Roman Empire’s meltdown. That exploration…
From the Mali Empire to the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) Foreseen by Cheikh Anta Diop
By Nicholas Jones “The historical mission of West Africa to a large extent consists in taking advantage of the facilities history has given it; to lose no time in becoming a powerful federated state, capable of freeing the rest of the continent by force if need be, rather than continuing indefinitely in weakness, divisiveness and…
Creativity Is the True Source of Economic Wealth
A Book Review by Lawrence Freeman (The following book review is published with permission from Freeman’s blog Africa and the World where it appeared on June 26. Patrick Kabanda, a native of Uganda, is an accomplished organist who also serves as what he describes as a “well-tempered non-economist,” consulting internationally on economic development policy. His book is…
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…