On Saturday, April 1, the Russian History Museum commemorated the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth with an online lecture by Dr. Valeria Z. Nollan. The lecture, “Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century,” was presented as part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series. Nollan’s lecture was based on Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of…
RTF Review: Ballet’s Secret Code
By Nicholas Jones Ballet’s secret code is a documentary about the Origins and principles behind Maestro Enrico Cecchetti’s lifetime of work and devotion to the Classical humanist art form: Ballet. Madam Julie Cronshaw takes us through the depths of his character, education and philosophy and his work as a Ballet Master under Diaghilev for the…
Why the Revival of Classical Painting is Imperative Today (Rising Tide Interview with Patrick Cyr)
In this interview, Quebec-based classical painter and art instructor Patrick Cyr talks with Rising Tide Foundation Director Matthew Ehret about the importance of classical thinking the need to revive the lost techniques of classical painting in order to bridge the artificial gulf separating the arts and sciences in today’s age. Patrick’s website can be found…
A Look at C.S. Lewis’ Sci-fi Trilogy: A Journey Out of H.G. Wells’ Deep Black Void
The following is the transcript of Part 1 of a three part lecture series Cynthia Chung delivered to the Rising Tide Foundation on the sci-fi trilogy by C.S. Lewis. In this first installment, I focus on a comparison between C.S. Lewis’ “Out of the Silent Planet” and H.G. Wells’ “The First Men in the Moon” sci-fi novels. For those…
Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed
What logic underlies today’s Great Reset agenda and why is it doomed to fail? In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation, Cynthia Chung will explore the systemic fallacies underlying the technocratic system of government outlined in HG Wells’ infamous 1939 «The World Brain» and its modern expression in Davos’ celebrity priest Yuval Noah Harari’s philosophy. What…
Why H.G. Wells’ ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ Has Arrived Today
By Cynthia Chung “It has become apparent that whole masses of human population are, as a whole, inferior in their claim upon the future, to other masses, that they cannot be given opportunities or trusted with power as the superior peoples are trusted, that their characteristic weaknesses are contagious and detrimental to the civilizing fabric,…
The Greater Eurasian Partnership Revives America’s Forgotten Hamiltonian Tradition
By Matthew Ehret In my last essay, I made the case that a specifically Eurasian expression of Manifest Destiny has emerged in recent years sharing many important parallels with the original Manifest Destiny often associated with 19th century America, but with one big difference. Unlike the earlier U.S. variant, the current Eurasian version is not being…
The British Empire Returns To A 168 Year Crime-a Scene
By Andrew Laverdiere On January 1, 2023, the New York Times published an opinion column by Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British ambassador. His piece, “Putin Has No Red Lines,” is a call for the West, and the United States in particular, to go for maximum confrontation with Russia. The West must drop its remaining hesitations on sending…
Vernadsky and the Directionality of Progress (Towards a Science of Humane Development)
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces the discoveries of some of the most important thinkers of recent history whose insights into the structure of reality provide the greatest answers to the questions: Is there a directionality in the universe? Does order govern chaos or visa versa and is there a scientific law…
Is the Universe Governed by Life or Death?
It was recently brought to my attention that someone had taken my recent five part series ‘Is the Universe Governed by Life or Death’ and turned it into a film adding their own creative twists throughout the script. Throughout my series and this new film, the origins of transhumanism are traced back to the philosophy…