Why GATE Now?
Now is the Age of the Creative Artist! GATE Leads the Way…
There’s a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now.
Because it has to happen now.
—Eckhart Tolle
We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
―Paulo Coelho
There's something deep happening beneath the surface of the world right now. You can sense it in your soul. This isn't just about countries or politics. It's energy. Light and darkness are battling. And if you're reading this, you're likely one of the souls who came to help. Keep shining. The world needs light more than ever.
―John Raatz
Time of Useful Consciousness
We live in a time of useful consciousness. In aviation, pilots learn that without supplemental oxen at certain altitudes, the pilot will lose consciousness and potentially crash.
Likewise, at this time in our collective experience, we are encountering great upheavals in our world, our country, our culture, our society. There is tremendous breakdown in most areas of life - social, technological, economic, environmental, political and spiritually. Some even use the term, “collapse” to describe the disintegration of values and norms, that have traditionally guided us. Corrective actions are needed to help set us on a new course.
It may be that such states or conditions currently emerging are natural aspects of our collective evolution - the birth of a new human whose functioning is a greater expression of who we truly are at a most fundamental level.
Creatives have a unique role in facilitating the personal, social and global transformation by inspiring awareness, vision, harmony, comfort and alternative ways of seeing things.
We are confronting a challenge of change unlike anything humanity has previously encountered. Change is no longer episodic or incremental; it has become continuous, accelerating, and self-reinforcing. The very character of change is transforming before our eyes. In this environment, the knowledge, assumptions, and mental models that once served us well are no longer sufficient. What we already know—even what we have mastered—cannot carry us forward. To not merely survive but to truly thrive amid such conditions requires more than adaptation at the surface level. It demands a profound conceptual leap: a fundamental reorientation of how we perceive, interpret, and engage with reality. In short, this moment calls for a transformation of consciousness itself.
Transition Times
In the context of GATE and the changes unfolding in the world, "transition times" are sacred thresholds—periods when old structures, identities, and ways of knowing are dissolving so that deeper truth can emerge. They are moments of collective and personal initiation, marked by uncertainty not as failure, but as invitation.
Spiritually, transition times call us to slow down, listen inwardly, and realign with purpose. They ask for courage to release what no longer serves, faith to stand in the unknown, and responsibility to choose growth over fear. Transformation does not happen by force in these times, but by awareness—by crossing consciously from who we were into who we are becoming.
Clearly, we are at a crossroad in Earth's history. For the first time, we face the possibility of irreversible global catastrophe as a result of what we humans have done (and not done) since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
At the same time, it is a moment of unprecedented opportunity. The emerging crisis is stimulating an awakening in consciousness the likes of which humanity has never seen before.
We see this in increased interest in matters of the spirit, increased concern for stewardship of our planet, expanding awareness of human rights, and a myriad of other phenomena.
The plight of the creative artist is the tension between profound inner calling and the outer world’s indifference. It is a lived paradox—rich with vision, yet often impoverished in support; filled with meaning, yet compelled to navigate systems that reduce meaning to metrics.
And yet, this plight is also an invitation. An invitation to step into the role that only artists can play: to reveal what is hidden, to humanize what is mechanized, to awaken what is asleep.
The artist’s struggle is not merely personal—it is cultural. They must wrestle with:
Economic uncertainty in systems that undervalue imagination.
Isolation in a world that rarely understands the depth of their interior life.
Gatekeepers and algorithms that restrict access to audiences.
The psychological toll of carrying visions others cannot yet see.
The burden of meaning-making in a time hungry for distraction.
And still, artists create.
They create because they must—because something within them insists on becoming known.
This insistence is not a hobby; it is a mandate.
It is the quiet, persistent manifesto written in their bones:
“Bring forth what only you can bring.
Shape the world as only you can shape it.
Stand for the beauty, truth, and transformation
that others have forgotten to seek.”
The plight of the creative artist, then, is not simply the sum
of challenges they face.
It is the heroic journey of transforming vision into form, solitude into connection, and personal truth into collective meaning.
It is both burden and blessing—
a calling that becomes a contribution,
a struggle that becomes a story,
a plight that becomes a path.
In this Era of Transformation, new tribes will arise—living constellations of shared meaning that embody universal archetypal energies long dormant or fragmented. These tribes are not bound by geography or tradition, but by resonance: a collective remembering of what it means to be fully human.
They will express values rooted in empathy, creativity, stewardship, and inner awareness, weaving together the personal and the planetary, the spiritual and the practical. The Cultural Creatives are one early manifestation of this awakening—a signal flare of a deeper shift in consciousness—demonstrating how humanistic values, ecological sensitivity, and soulful intelligence can coalesce into new cultural forms. As these tribes emerge, they will help re-enchant the world, offering living alternatives to mechanistic paradigms and guiding society toward a more integrated, compassionate, and life-affirming future.
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Cultural Creatives
For the first time, we humans hold in our hands
The intensifying and pervasive social, technological, environmental, economic,
The political and spiritual crises now confronting us demand that we recognize and accept our responsibility to use our awareness and personal resources to contribute to, and collaborate with others, toward the discovery, adoption, and implementation of solutions to our planet-wide problems.
The term “Cultural Creatives” refers to an emerging and influential audience whose values and lifestyles signal a profound shift in global culture. The concept was first introduced in 2000 with the publication of *The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World* by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson.
Drawing on extensive, long-term research, Ray and Anderson identified a large, previously unnamed segment of the population that shared a common worldview despite differences in geography, profession, and background. Their work revealed a global community of individuals who were already living at the leading edge of social, cultural, and economic change—often without recognizing themselves as part of a larger movement.
Cultural Creatives are characterized by a commitment to holistic and transformational values. They tend to prioritize environmental sustainability, social justice, personal growth, spiritual exploration, and authentic relationships. Their lifestyle preferences often reflect a desire for meaning over materialism, emphasizing conscious consumption, ethical business practices, creativity, and well-being.
Rather than representing a fringe subculture, this audience constitutes a significant and growing market whose values are becoming increasingly mainstream. As cultural norms evolve, the principles embodied by Cultural Creatives—interconnection, responsibility, and transformation—are exerting a widening influence on how people live, work, consume, and envision the future across the world.
Transformation
from Within
At this time, the prevailing but outmoded dominant worldview is finding its full, and likely final expression. More and more of humanity are recognizing the point we’ve come to in our history on Earth: a radical turning point unlike any we’ve experienced before.
For the first time, we humans hold in our hands – and in our minds - the most immediate power to either destroy life on Earth as we’ve known it, or transform our relationship with it, ourselves, and each other, to not only continue, but revivify, blossom, and thrive.
The intensifying and pervasive social, technological, environmental, economic,
The political and spiritual crises now confronting us demand that we recognize and accept our responsibility to use our awareness and personal resources to contribute to, and collaborate with others, toward the discovery, adoption, and implementation of solutions to our planet-wide problems.
Transforming Our Worldview
“We must ask ourselves how can we honorably conduct business in the latter
days of industrialization and the beginning of an ecological age?”
— HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
Q
How can the new worldview take greater hold among more of the world’s citizens, so new emergent behaviors might lead to this healing, more egalitarian and loving earthly experience?
A
In our estimation, one of the primary answers is: through media,
entertainment and the arts. Every time we have a conversation, read or watch the news, see a movie, read a book or magazine, attend a lecture, listen to a live stream or concert, surf the Web or attend an event, we are being presented with a worldview.
The following diagram illustrates the differences between
The old and new world view (transformational) paradigms.
This Old Worldview / New Worldview chart details the characteristics of these two distinctly different paradigms, one that brought us to this particular moment in history, and another that will take us beyond it, into our positive and sustainable future. When most people look at life and the world, they see it through the old worldview. And we act based on our worldview … so worldview is very important! So, which worldview is your media diet supporting?
The old one that’s turned out to be so dangerous and destructive? Or the new one that holds great hope and possibility? What is a media diet? You are what you read, what you see, and what you hear. Where you put your attention determines what you will imbibe – consume – metabolize from the media world. Are you watching TV and films that lift and inspire, or ones that reinforce violence and inanity? Are you listening to radio that enlightens or entertains, or to audio content that underscores differences and confrontation? And, if you’re “in the business,” what are you writing, producing, directing, acting in, scoring? Remember … each of us is the beginning (and center) of the transformed world. A new worldview is emerging, holding within it the possibility for healing, peace, and a global awareness and perspective that supports more of humanity and our needs with greater equity, justice and opportunity.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
—LEO TOLSTOY