Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach
By David Gosselin It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has...
View ArticleSONG OF THE CRAB NEBULA or “The Shadow of a Magnitude”
By Dan Leach Long before the first eyes ever saw me Floating like a ghost upon the night, Long before human minds even feebly Pierced beyond their dimly shrouded sight, I was there, though clothed...
View ArticleAre We Destined to Act on the Future? Optical Biophysics as a Teleological...
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...
View ArticleDr. Luc Montagnier and the Coming Revolutions in Optical Biophysics
By Matthew Ehret On February 8, 2022, Nobel Prize winning virologist Dr Luc Montagnier passed away. An this essay will discuss an important aspect of Montagnier’s contribution to human knowledge which...
View ArticleFrom Particles To Waves: A Paradigm Shift in Health Science
In this Sunday’s Rising Tide Foundation symposium, Jan Wellmann speaks about optical biophysics (the electromagnetic dynamics of cellular health) and much more. Biography: Jan Wellmann is an...
View ArticleEscaping 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...
View ArticleHow Classical Painting Liberates us from the Shackles of the Senses
An exploration of Schiller’s Aesthetics as it pertains to political revolutions past and future By Matthew Ehret This article is based on a RTF lecture given on Feb. 11, 2019 in Montreal Canada....
View ArticleTo What Purpose are We Drawn to Tragedy: A Study of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
In this lecture, Cynthia Chung discusses whether there is a purpose to tragedy beyond merely being tragic and whether this was the intention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Along with a study of the play,...
View ArticleThe Art of Political Freedom Part I: Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire and the...
In this first of a two-part lecture series, RTF director Matt Ehret delivers a presentation on Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire and broader political struggles over the soul of the early republic and...
View ArticleThe Art of Political Freedom Part II: Alexander von Humboldt and the Hudson...
In this RTF Lecture, Matt Ehret introduces the second lecture of his two-part series on the topic of classical painting with a focus on the political fight to establish a new type of nation on the...
View ArticleParaguay: Genocide in the Name Of Free Trade
By Andrew F. Laverdiere Recently, the YouTube channel The Armchair Historian with 1.83 Million subscribers hosted by Griffin Johnson posted a video about the 5 year War Of The Triple Alliance of...
View ArticleHow the ‘Real’ America Is in Harmony With the Belt and Road Initiative
In reviewing some history, you might be shocked to discover that the Belt and Road Initiative is more American than the America which the world has come to know over the past 50 years. The American...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Win-Win Cooperation: 15-19th Century Diplomatic Success of China
Although it is well known that China has become the world’s largest and fastest growing economy in the world- outpacing the USA since the unveiling of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, it is too...
View ArticleThe Harmony Between Tianxia and Westphalia
By Matthew Ehret I have noticed that many pro-Chinese thinkers and writers have lately made the mistake of presuming that Chinese culture and civilization stands in total opposition to the...
View ArticleWe Need a Renaissance, Not a Reset: Why the Singularity Point Is Not Coming
By David Gosselin Humanity has always had a story and it always will. Depending on our understanding of that story, individuals, or humanity as a whole, can be lead down fundamentally different paths....
View ArticleTuning Humanity to the Universe: The Role of Education in Shaping Global...
In this address delivered to the last session of the 22nd International Conference of Chief Justices of the World organized by India’s City Montessori School, Matthew Ehret (representing Dr. Edward...
View ArticleEscaping Calypso’s Island Episode 2: Trapped in the Cave (The Curse of Game...
Is the world a zero sum game or an open system shaped by creativity and cooperation? What truly defines humanity’s supposed “limits to growth” and what is a “limited resource”? Is overpopulation a...
View ArticleAlma Deutscher’s Plea for Harmony Strikes a Universal Chord
An incredible speech was given by the 14 year old composer Alma Deutscher upon receiving the European Culture Prize at the Vienna State Opera on October 20, 2019. At this prestigious ceremony, the...
View ArticleBrunelleschi’s Dome: The Project that Inspired a Renaissance
by Cynthia Chung To this day, over 550 years after its construction, the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral remains a proudly cherished national treasure of the Italians, attracting tourists from all...
View ArticleDante’s Commedia, or How to Escape a Modern Inferno
By David Gosselin This is the accompanying article to a lecture given by the same author, as part of the RTF Lecture Series “The Renaissance Principle Across the Ages“. Many today would consider Dante...
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