By Adam Sedia Click here for Part I, Part II and Part III to this series. Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is relegated to presenting a series of images for the reader to supply the meaning of the text. Hart Crane…
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Beyond the Lines: Keats’ “Ode on Indolence”
By David Gosselin The question has been raised by many critics, academics, scientists, and artists, “What is Creativity?” In the spring of 1819, the poet John Keats experienced one of the greatest bursts of creativity in the history of art and science. When fully considered, the astounding poetic achievements of the spring of 1819 parallel…
Clarity vs. Obscurity V: Eliot’s Masks
By Adam Sedia Click here for Part I, Part II, Part III , and Part IV to this series. T.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among the titans of twentieth-century poetry, with The Waste Land hailed as the epic of our…
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…
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…
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…
Occult Roots of Counterculture & the Threat of Empire w/ Cynthia Chung
Courtenay invites Cynthia Chung to join in a riveting discussion regarding many of their shared interests spanning topics such as ancient philosophy, psychological origins, social engineering & geopolitics. As a deep dive researcher Cynthia brings nuanced perspectives outside traditional, mainstream narratives, providing thoughtfulness and profound insight. You can view the interview here. Cynthia Chung is the…
Escaping Huxley’s Island: Psychedelics, Scientific Paganism and the Changing Images of Man
In Aldous Huxley’s final novel, The Island, the Ultimate Revolution and predictive programming guru presents a subtly different and more nuanced version of the original Soma culture depicted in his Brave New World. While Huxley’s earlier novel presented a culture in which a magical drug called “Soma” was used to chemically regulate people’s inner worlds…
What it Means to be an American Citizen this Fourth of July
By Cynthia Chung In celebration of the upcoming Independence Day, I thought I would share with you the transcript of a lecture I delivered 2 years ago on the subject of “Frederick Douglass and the Fight to Save the Soul of America.” It is a pretty heated situation in the United States right now, pretty much likened…