This Sunday, Africa Expert Lawrence Freeman will grace the Rising Tide Foundation with a geopolitical-historical presentation on the breakdown of the rules based international order in Africa and the rise of a new potential for a Pan-African renaissance. Lawrence Freeman has been involved in Africa for 35 years. You can read all of his articles…
High Speed Railways and Hieroglyphics (yes they are connected)
Supplementary material: African Agenda – A new perspective on Africa
Cheikh Anta Diop’s Dream of a United Africa: The Economic Vision for an African New Silk Road
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Nicholas Jones explores the strategic thinking of Africa’s great renaissance philosopher/scientist/statesman Cheikh Anta Diop and his vision for a modern, technologically advanced Africa liberated from the yoke of colonialism. Nicholas additionally lays out various elements of the evolving Belt and Road Initiative on the continent which are bringing Diop’s…
How Huxley’s X Club Derailed a 19th Century System of Win-Win Cooperation (and 150 Years of Science)
By Matthew Ehret In 1865, a group of 12 scientists under the leadership of Thomas Huxley, Matthew Arnold, Joseph Hooker, and Herbert Spencer (founder of social Darwinism) was created under the name “X Club” with the mandate to reform global British Imperial strategy. At the time of this group’s formation, Lincoln’s north was on the…
How the British Invented Communism (and blamed it on the Jews) [RTF lecture with Richard Poe]
In this week’s Rising Tide Foundation lecture, guest speaker Richard Poe showcases the British empire’s role in subverting revolutionary movements against empire from the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and everything in between (and after… including the more refined ‘color revolutions’ of our modern age). Mr. Poe will additionally address the grooming…
Tolstoy’s Doomed Hunt for Perfect Happiness and the Answers to Everything
In this presentation, author, historian, and RTF advisor Martin Sieff launches into an artful deconstruction of the cult of Leo Tolstoy, and the objectively destructive effects Tolstoy’s cosmology has had on humanity during his life and for the century afterwards. Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways: 1) Make a donation https://risingtidefoundation.net/supp… 2)…
The War on Science and the 20th Century Descent of Man
By Cynthia Chung In Part 1 the question was discussed what was Aldous’ real intention in writing the Brave New World; was it meant as an exhortation, an inevitable prophecy or as an Open Conspiracy? An Open Conspiracy closely linked to not only H.G. Wells, who clearly laid out such a vision in his book by the…
The Battle for the Mind: How to Exit an Artificial Reality
By Cynthia Chung [This is a transcript of a Rising Tide Foundation lecture delivered December 18, 2022 which can be viewed here.] The above is a picture from George Cukor’s movie ‘Gaslight’ (1944) which is what originated the term “gaslighting.” [The definition of gaslighting is to manipulate someone using psychological methods into questioning their own…
C.S. Lewis’s Science Trilogy Explained with Cynthia Chung
In this episode of ‘Unreliable Narrators’ RTF President Cynthia Chung is invited to unpack C.S. Lewis’ Science Fiction Trilogy and its importance in understanding the causes and remedies of the problems of transhumanism, Malthusianism and the occult plaguing today’s world. Subscribe to the Unreliable Narrators Podcast here. Below is the Lecture Series Cynthia delivered on…
Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part One: Truth and Beauty in Art
By David Gosselin An object is perfect, when everything manifold in it accords with the unity of its concept; it is beautiful, when its perfection appears as nature. The beauty increases, when the perfection becomes more complex and the nature suffers nothing thereby; for the task of freedom becomes more difficult with the increasing number…
The First NATO: Re-assessing the Anglo-French Alliance of the 19th Century
During this lecture, Martin Sieff (award winning journalist with Sputnik News and Strategic Culture) delivers an explosive re-assessment of world history during the mid-late 19th century. Since many disturbing elements of history have begun to repeat in our modern age, it is vital to come to a greater awareness of this forgotten past now while…
Mendeleyev, Witte and the Revival of Russia’s Lost Revolutionary Potential of 1905
By Matthew Ehret In my last article in this history series, I attempted to shed some light on President Putin’s reasons for claiming the Bolshevik Revolution did significantly more harm than good to humanity over a century ago. My primary intention in that location was to demonstrate that revolutionary the events of 1905 and again…
Open System Pathways for a Multi-Polar Future
By Matthew Ehret During the course of President Putin’s June 24 opening speech during the Moscow Parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of WWII, the following call to action was made: “We understand how important it is to strengthen friendship and trust between nations, and are open to dialogue and cooperation on the most pressing issues on the international…
The Eye of the Storm: ENERGY WARS
Ep. 3 of RTF Docu Series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” I am immensely happy to present to you all Ep. 3 “The Eye of the Storm: ENERGY WARS” of our Rising Tide Foundation ongoing Docu Series. I think this is our best episode thus far and its content is extremely important since it discusses the future…
Connecting the Dots with Matt Ehret and Cynthia Chung: On Escaping Calypso’s Island RTF Docu Series
Episode 3 Launch Coming Up THIS WEEK! Cynthia Chung discusses her documentary series ‘Escaping Calypso’s Island’ with Matt Ehret on TNT’s Connecting the Dots. The trailer to Episode 2: The Curse of Game Theory is played within the first few minutes of the video. Watch episodes 1 and 2 of Escaping Calypso’s Island below:
Bridging the Divide
By Vincent Boccarossa I have often pondered how we the people of humanity can rise above our differences to create a better world for us all. It has taken me down a road less traveled both educationally and spiritually embracing the path of soul in all my endeavors. I have discovered a common ground principle…
Escaping Calypso’s Island Episode 2 The Curse of Game Theory Trailer
Refer below to watch the full episode: To watch the full Docu Series refer here.
The 5000 Year Suppression of the Dodecahedron (RTF Lecture with Chuck Stevens)
Fusion Energy Foundation co-creator Chuck Stevens delivers a presentation on the topic of ‘The 5000 Year Suppression of the Dodecahedron’ (and science more broadly) which will tackle the importance of the most important Platonic solid and the golden section which were integral in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, celestial astrophysics, and even…
The Dynamics of Nuclear Power Diplomacy: Russia and China vs the Neo-Malthusians
In 1975, an influential Stanford biologist named Paul Ehrlich (author of the misanthropic 1968 Population Bomb) stated that in his view, humanity’s acquisition of fusion energy was “like giving an idiot child a machine gun”. Ehrlich’s views were shared widely among the peculiar sect of scientists that have come to be known as neo-Malthusians. Ehrlich’s colleague John…
As Above, So Below: Re-Uniting the Macroverse with the Microverse Symposium
Although western civilization currently enjoys some of the highest rates of education ever seen in history, it appears that the rates of insolvable problems in the political, economic, military and even scientific spheres have multiplied far faster. If education and science are meant to empower each generation to problem solve, and make ever-more refined discoveries…
A Dialogue Between Tagore and Einstein on the Nature of Reality
On July 14 1930, an incredible platonic dialogue occured in Berlin between two great minds representing both cultures and fields of study which many have falsely presumed to be polar opposites of each other. On the one hand the scientist Albert Einstein, representing western civilization, had attained some of the greatest accomplishments by revolutionizing humanity’s…
Why We Need the Tragic: Schiller, Cassandra and the Rebirth of Tragedy
By David Gosselin [originally published on Antigone] “Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is runningTruly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” —Friedrich Schiller, The Fountain of Second Youth There are prophecies in every age. The doom of empires and the fall of kings remain perennial themes because of their…
Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering Eureka
By Matthew Ehret What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again to the Life Everlasting. Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.” –Edgar…
C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra: Towards a Beatific or Miserific Vision?
C.S. Lewis is famously known for his work ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ as well as his impassioned defense of Christianity in an age of accelerating materialism, but he is less known for his work in science fiction. Although not often appreciated as these works deserve, Lewis’ sci-fi trilogy (Out of the Silent…
The 120 year British French Plot to Enslave Mexico and How Franklin Roosevelt Ended It
EVery year Mexico celebrates ‘Revolution Day’ – the overthrow of the fascist puppet Porfirio Díaz in 1910. Sadly many of the legacies of the Anglo-French imperial intrigues of the 19th century that led up to Porfirio’s achieving power still haunt Mexico as it is pulled between two very different visions for the future: One vision…
The Power of Classical Culture in Shaping the Future
By Cynthia Chung Many here in the West remain uncertain as to what the New Silk Road represents or may be outright cynical about the whole thing. The truth of the matter is that we are situated in a moment in history where we are at the brink of entering a new paradigm. This is…
Humanity’s Struggle for a City of God: From Plato to Thomas More
In this final installment of a trilogy of lectures on the topic of ‘Humanity’s Struggle for a City of God’, Matt Ehret recapitulates the first two classes by going over the the migration of the Babylonian oligarchy and its network of cults to Persia, and thence to Rome after Alexander the Great’s victory over his…
Mary Stuart and the Geopolitical Realities of 19th Century England
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Nicholas Jones explores the universal method of analysis and transformative artistic composition of the great poet of freedom Friedrich Schiller. Nicholas begins by setting the stage of the period in time in which Schiller himself lived and worked. This was a late 18th century Europe clamoring for liberty from…
Pulling Back from the Brink of Self-Annihilation: MLK’s ‘Beyond Vietnam’ Revisited
This Easter Sunday, March 31st marks a solemn day as we recall the sacrifice and immortal living spirit of Jesus Christ and also a man who lived his life in the model of Christ… Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. It was 54 years ago, on April 4, 1967 that King delivered one of his boldest…
Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World
By Matthew Ehret Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are the foundations of a failed imperial world order defined by zero-sum thinking, consumerism and materialism which has defined our existence for decades. The question is now: will the new world system…
All Possibilities Actualized, or The Dimensions of Time
By Dr. Michael Clarage Time has different dimensions, just like space. Words like “now”, “eternity”, “possibilities” refer to dimensions of time, just as “length”, “area”, and “volume” refer to dimensions of space. With this essay I hope to show how on the topic of TIME, Physics can re-join its historical siblings after too many years…
Science, God and the Origins of the Metric System with Fehmi Krasniqi
In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation, Fehmi Krasniqi (creator of K19: Secret of the Great Pyramid documentary) unveils his discovery that the origins of the metric system are not to be found in the French revolution as is popularly believed, but much further back in time. In fact, as Fehmi points out, not only was…
The ABCs in Energy: Do We Actually Understand How Energy Works?
By Cynthia Chung Europeans are presently being told that the energy crisis they are entering, with natural gas prices now four times higher than last year, stems from a longer winter, competition with East Asian countries for gas, and problems on the supply end with delayed maintenance and less investment. These gas prices are in…
Escaping Calypso’s Island: A Journey Out of Our Green Delusion
RTF Docu-Series Is it truly the case that in order to live in harmony with nature, industrial activity must be eliminated? Can green energy systems support our current world population and is it possible to have an advanced growing thriving world civilization while also enjoying growing, thriving ecosystems? In this ongoing six part docu-series, The…
How China and Russia Revived Nuclear Energy
This Sunday February 25 Alex Dimitrios (author and editor at Space Commune) will be delivering the weekly Rising Tide Foundation lecture where he will demystify the science (and myths) surrounding nuclear energy, while exploring the role of Russia and China in saving this vital form of energy as the basis of an anti-Malthusian program of…
The Truth About Environmentalism in China The Pagan Origins of Ecology (Fox Green RTF Lecture)
This Sunday February 18, 2023, Fox Green (analyst, editor, filmmaker and founder of SpaceCommune.com) delivered a lecture called ‘The Truth About Environmentalism in China and the Pagan Origins of Ecology’ which traced the roots of the death cult that infused itself into both Capitalist and Communist thinking over the course of the past 150 years….
From Balkh to Konya: Discovering Rumi’s spiritual geopolitics
By Pepe Escobar Originally published on The Cradle KONYA – Mystic poet, Sufi, theosophist, and thinker, Jalal al-Din Rumi remains one of the most beloved historical personalities in history, east and west. A wanderer in search of the light, he famously characterized himself thus: “I am nothing more than a humble lover of God.” The era…
Bandung (Asian-African) Conference- The Voice of the People
This week’s Rising Tide Foundation lecture featured Cynthia Chung’s brilliant elaboration of a major historic fight that occurred amidst the heat of the Cold War in Bandung, Indonesia. This conference saw world leaders from the emerging non-aligned movement, and global south, featuring Pan African, Pan Arab and other anti-colonial forces who stood in defiance to…
Ancient India and the Vedas: The Untold Story
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr Raj Vedam introduces a multi parameter analysis of ancient Indian civilization by incorporating archeology, archeo-genetics, linguistics, archeo-astronomy, mathematics, engineering, architecture and literary analysis with one aim: Prove definitively that Indian culture is both much older than “Aryan invasion” devotees would have the world believe. In opposition to the…
The Edgar Poe You Never Knew: a Mere Writer of Horror or a Humanist Master of the Mind
by Cynthia Chung What say of it? what say CONSCIENCE grim, That spectre in my path? -Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida The purpose of this paper is to debunk the myth surrounding Poe; that he was just a mere writer of horror and that he had an unhealthy obsession with the mad and the morbid…since isn’t that all…
Symposium: Rediscovering the Infinite Through Classical Art
The Rising Tide Foundation presents the Symposium: Rediscovering the Infinite Through Classical Art, which opened with a presentation by Cynthia Chung on Shakespeare and the use of tragedy in elevating an audience’s knowledge of human nature in order to break free from tragic dynamics within us. This was followed by a lecture delivered by Matthew…
When Fairytales Go Very Wrong: Mandeville, the Fable of the Bees and the Hellfire Club
By David Gosselin “Fais ce que tu voudras” (Do as thou whilst) -—Motto of the Hellfire Club The magic of a good fairy tale is undeniable. With the charming power of its enchanting conceits, we’re left with the kind of wonder and wisdom that we can reflect on for a lifetime. Indeed, the wonder and…
The Russian Poet of Freedom: On Pushkin’s “Little Tragedies” and the Law of Nemesis
Many in the West are not familiar with the works of Alexander Pushkin. They may not even be aware of his existence and this is a real loss for western thinking. Just as Shakespeare is admired throughout the world and not just in Britain, for his lessons are universal and touch all hearts no matter…
Statecraft in Modern China: From Sun Yat-sen to the New Silk Road
Many citizens in both the west and east still find themselves trapped under a set of assumptions that presumes Chinese and American cultures arise from two opposing and incompatible worlds of politics, economics and culture. In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Dr. Quan Le shatters that belief by introducing the history, philosophy and political economic…
Of Minds and Men- On Universal History and the Creation of Aristocratic Men (Dr. Quan Le Lecture)
RTF advisor Dr. Quan Le sheds light on the struggle to create a culture of truly sovereign citizens stretching back from ancient times to our current age with a focus on both Plato and the Confucian traditions (which must be understood, as Quan explains, to involve a process that actually stretches farther before and after…
Guanzi- Introduction to 3000 Years of Chinese Economic Thought
Guanzi is a nearly 3000 year old Chinese treatise that defines economics as “the study of making the country rich” which is still quoted by China’s leaders to this day. Join us for an afternoon we we transcend the lens of western-only understanding, read from original texts, and see what economics has always meant from…
Sparks of a New Renaissance in Painting Emerge from China
By Matthew Ehret It is rare to see new artistic movements arise. It is even rarer that such artistic revolutions manage to respect the best traditions of the past while at the same time infuse something new and improved into society. The fatal error made by many innovators attempting to break with the often stultifying…
OF MINDS & MEN (VIII-XIII) ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY & THE CREATION OF ARISTOCRATIC MEN
By Dr. Quan Le [This is part of an ongoing series on the historic efforts in the east and western cultural matrices to create an educational system that can produce true philosopher kings with a focus on the traditions and efforts of Plato and his spiritual brother Confucius. To access part I-II click here, and parts III-VII click…
In Defence of King Arthur
by Gerald Therrien (aka: A Canadian Yankee in King Arthur’s Court) While watching the decline and fall of today’s North Atlantean Empire, there seem to be many possible outcomes. One possible outcome is the complete destruction of this North Atlantean culture, and another possibility is the correction of this North Atlantean culture that will allow…
OF MINDS & MEN: On Universal History and the Creation of Aristocratic Men (Part III-VII)
By Quan Le [Click here for part I-II] There is an enlightening conversation between Confucius (551-479 BCE) and his close student Zigong (520-456 BCE) that has been recorded in the Ten Wings or Shi Yi 十 翼 (Shi2 Yi4), the indispensable philosophical appendix of the I Ching, the Book of Change. Zigong 子 贡 (Zi3…
OF MINDS & MEN: On Universal History and the Creation of Aristocratic Men (Part I-II)
By Dr. Quan Le Introduction Sometimes, anecdotes can be incredibly revealing : For instance, there is a common adage which features an Indian proudly saying to his Chinese friend “Look at the 135 Indian CEOs managing American companies”. His Chinese friend says in turn “Look at the 135 (in 2023) Chinese corporations on the Fortune…
The Power of Classical Culture in Shaping the Future: The New Silk Road and an African Renaissance
On Sunday April 28, 2019, a symposium was held in Montreal Canada dealing with the unified growth of cultural optimism and beautiful art and real economic development as it is being manifested today with the New Silk Road in Asia, Africa and beyond. Cynthia Chung, co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation, focuses on the importance…
The Forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance and China’s Silk Road
By Matthew Ehret This article was also presented by the author as a class, as part of the RTF Lecture Series “The Renaissance Principle Across the Ages“. Today, I would like to go a little deeper into the longer wave of history shaping our presently confused age by taking a look at the forgotten Jewish…
On Lessing’s ‘Nathan the Wise’: Is a Harmony of Cultures Possible?
In this lecture RTF President Cynthia Chung will conduct a discussion on the classical work ‘Nathan the Wise’ by the renaissance humanist Gotthold Lessing. Exploring this work will not merely be an academic exercise of an art piece, but will be a gateway to the essentials of cultural warfare and the wisest methods of conducting…