The great english poet and dramatist Percy Shelley once famously wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” in reference to the role of the Promethean quality of creative reason that has opened up new vistas of potential when all roads appeared dead ends to the masses and uncreative elites. Was Shelley bombastic…
Category: Symposium
Humane Development: Towards a Science of Progress
Too few among today’s citizens understand the elementary connection between energy and population potential, and fewer still realize that there is such a thing as a scientific approach to economics which both respects the creative freedom of the individual while also obeying fundamental laws of nature. In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces…
Multipolar vs Unipolar RTF Symposium
To participate in all upcoming Rising Tide Foundation Zoom Lectures, simply write to info@risingtidefoundation.net. Visit our Symposia page for more information. America’s Forgotten Fight for Universal ProgressLecturer: Anton Chaitkin (author of Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress) Teddy Roosevelt’s Last Mad CrusadeLecturer: Martin Sieff (author of Cycles of Change) Hamiltonian Economics and the…
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…
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…
What Determines A Limit to Growth?
By Cynthia Chung This is an article version of a class Cynthia Chung gave for the symposium “The Earth Next 100 Years” which can be viewed here. What Determines a “Limit to Growth”? This might seem like a rather ignorant or simplistic question to some. Many will think the answer rather obvious, that the Limit…
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…
Colbert, Leibniz and Vattel: The Cameralist Roots of the American System
Everyone knows of the American Revolution and Declaration of 1776. Very few people know of the deeper historical currents and networks of republicans stretching across space and time that made this revolution happen and upon whose ideas, a system came into being which was named “The American System of Political Economy”. On Sunday July 12th,…
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…
Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra
On Sunday June 25, 2023 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted a lecture on universal history and science titled ‘Islamic Roots and al-Khwarizi’s Algebra’. In this lecture, professors Pascal Chevrier and Kevin Champagne introduced the contours of history that shaped the islamic renaissance and which was in turn shaped by this renaissance movement. Special focus was…