In this episode of Our Interesting Times, host Tim Kelly chats with Cynthia Chung of The Rising Tide Foundation www.risingtidefoundation.net to discuss her fascinating series on Huxley and his Brave New World we seem to be living in. From the origins, to the hidden history of mass mind manipulation, to the 60s in California, it’s a fascinating look into…
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China and the Founding of the United States
It has become too easy for people to presume that no two cultures could be so far removed as the United States from China. However, in this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr. David Wang debunks that popular belief by showcasing the fruits of many years of research into a dimension of American history too often…
RTF Dialogues with Butch Valdes on The Philippines: A Nation Caught Between Two Systems
In this Rising Tide Foundation Dialogue, Matt Ehret and Butch Valdes discuss the past, present and hopeful future of the Philippines as a nation being pulled between two opposing paradigms. Butch is the former undersecretary of education under President Estrada (1998-2001), and a leading builder of citizens’ movements with a focus on economic reform, national…
Plato and Confucius, Spiritual Brothers and Philosopher Kings Living at Two Ends of the World Island
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr. Quan Le breaks the commonly held belief that the west and east are organized by two fundamentally opposing paradigms of Confucian pragmatism on the one side in opposition to Platonic idealism on the other. Dr. Le does this by introducing the individuals and philosophies of both great men…
Are We Destined to Act on the Future? Optical Biophysics as a Teleological Approach to Science
In this 2013 lecture, Rising Tide Foundation director Matthew Ehret presents an introduction to the scientific discoveries that shaped our understanding of matter, electromagnetism and how the revolution in field theory gives us a better way to observe how systems of non-living, living, and cognitive matter are organised by future states of existence. By investigating…
The Fourth Phase of Water – Beyond the Three You Already Know (RTF Lecture with Dr. Gerald Pollack)
This Sunday Oct. 15, The Rising Tide Foundation was proud to host Dr. Gerald Pollack- who’s pioneering work on the Fourth Phase of Water is among the most important and under-appreciated fields of research in science today. The lecture, Dr. Pollach’s biography follow below followed by links to his books Speaker Bio Gerald Pollack received…
The Stupidity of Artificial Intelligence (RTF Lecture)
During this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, the history of Artificial Intelligence is examined from the 19th century to the present as the following questions are posed: 1) Is it truly possible to replicate the full spectrum of human mentation with “machine learning” as is popularly presumed today? 2) What are the positive roles for computer…
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…
The BRI in Africa: Gateway to Peace or Debt Trap Diplomacy?
In this episode of Spotlight on Africa on Los Angeles’ KPFK Radio, Matt Ehret was invited to speak on the most pressing developments across the African continent and the ironies of Africa’s aspirations for independence and development which are entirely in sync with the best of the lost anti-imperial traditions represented by the USA. A…
The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon
The great poet, historian and dramatist Friedrich Schiller recognized that the study of universal history were impossible if the mind of the researcher missed the fundamental tension between two opposing paradigms which strike at the heart of the nature of man, god, and reality itself. While this fundamental tension has expressed itself in diverse manners…