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.
Transition Times
Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment
A Community of Professionals Committed to Furthering Global Awakening Through Entertainment
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.
It is not the job of a good message to say what is popular. It is the job of a good message to make popular what we need to say.
—ANAT SHENKER-OSORIO
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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.
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.
What Americans Think About the Arts
Every person on earth who’s communicating is representing a worldview, a perception of the world. There are now nearly 7 billion worldviews on Earth. However, at least two of them have aggregated large-scale agreement:
1. The primary worldview that most of us now share includes these characteristics:
• Each of us is a separate, individual person.
• Because of our different identities, including national, ethnic, cultural, and religious associations, we are more different from each other than we are similar.
• We must fight for what is rightly ours; if we don’t fight, we lose.
• There are limited resources on the planet. I want to make sure mine are not threatened.
• We’re mostly helpless to change our lives or the trajectory of life on earth. Our lives happen to us and are the end results of forces beyond our influence.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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On the Trail of Transformation
Some Basic Principles
Everything begins in consciousness and is made of the same stuff.
There is only one consciousness. Everyone/everything shares that consciousness, and everyone/everything is a unique embodiment and expression of it.
Everyone and everything is connected. We’re all in this together!
Everything anyone does (and doesn’t do) affects the whole. You can’t not make a difference. WE are all co-creating reality NOW.
NOW is all there is.
The real questions are:
Is the difference you’re making benefiting the whole or harming it?
Are you making your difference out of conscious choice/ volition/intention, or based on unconscious, unconsidered habit?
Everyone and everything is in its perfect place. What we extend out into the world and toward others, cones back to us. What shall we create together?
Indigenous peoples have always known all this. Western science is in the process of proving it.
You are invited to see and know this to be true for yourself. When you do -- in a “full-being” way -- you will have had a transformational experience, and the way you relate to life afterwards will be different.
There are as many ways to achieve this “seeing and knowing” as there are people. This “seeing and knowing” is inevitable. It is just a matter of time.
Why wait?
You will see and know these principles to be true in some NOW. Why not this NOW? … or this one? … or this one? ….
Since we are all connected and made of the same stuff, the good you do in the world for others, you simultaneously do for yourself. So, in your own self-interest (in the largest sense!), let’s make reality better for everyone. Healthier, more prosperous, more loving, more peaceful.
At least, this is how we see it.
How do you see it?
Transformational Entertainment and Media
When we have a profound experience of ourSelf – our essence – it’s usually stimulated by something either inside us or outside – (is there really an inside and outside?). At this moment, we see and know this connection, this Oneness. It’s been a transformational moment.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the
transmission of feeling the artist
has experienced.
Leo Tolstov
