What is GATE - The Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment?
GATE is an evolving community of creative, business and technical professionals in entertainment, media, and the arts, who realize the vital and expanding role media and entertainment play in creating our lives, and who aspire to consciously transform those domains for the benefit of all.
GATE is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association providing valuable and relevant knowledge, resources and services to a wide range of professionals in the media, entertainment and arts industries, to aid in their personal transformation and to help them create and distribute content that expresses their transformational worldview.
1979
The seeds of GATE were humbly sown when a small committed group of actors, musicians, writers, business professionals and others joined together to teach meditation to members of the entertainment and media communities. Reception was abundantly positive, but it was just a niche group then. However, in these past 30 years a remarkable sea change has occurred. The growth of awareness has been dramatic. Interest in spirituality, healing, peace, ecological issues and other progressive concerns and affinity values has mushroomed exponentially.
As R. Buckminster Fuller said, “Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.”
Today, more people than ever realize the actuality of this proclamation.
2009
GATE was formally inaugurated on June 4th at the Zanuck Theater on the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. About 500 people from the entertainment, media and body/mind/spirit communities attended the event. Interest was unprecedented, and demand for seats far exceeded capacity: 1500 people were turned away.
Hosted by GATE founder / chairman John Raatz and actor / activist Jim Carrey, a keynote talk by author and spiritual leader Eckhart Tolle galvanized the group. Presentations were made by industry professionals from film, television, music, and publishing. Melissa Etheridge and Donovan provided musical entertainment. Presenters and audience members alike enthusiastically endorsed and applauded the birth of the GATE movement, recognizing the role that entertainment and media plays in projecting our reality, and supporting the transformation of these industries in order to make those projections more positive and life enhancing.
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 ourselves, each other and the planet so that life for us all can not only continue, but revivify, blossom, and thrive.
The intensifying and pervasive social, technological, environmental, economic, 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.
We must ask ourselves how we can honorably conduct business in the latter days of industrialization and the beginning of an ecological age?”–Paul Hawken
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.
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!
Question: 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?
Answer: 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 CD or concert, surf the Web or attend an event, we are being presented with a worldview
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.
It’s our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist.
We are collaborators in creation… The Future of the earth is in our hands.”
- Pierre Teihard de Chardin
The threefold mission of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment seeks to empower entertainment and media professionals and companies to produce and distribute content that inspires new awareness-based worldviews for global audiences by providing:
Resources and guidance supporting members’ personal, inner education thereby assisting them in deepening their fundamental connection with themselves which, once achieved, results in the desire to express that essential sense of self and personal transformation in and through their work. Issues education: support to bring to awareness responsibility for the ideas, issues and events that are shaping the world we live in – for both “good and ill.” And mentorship — giving back and supporting the next generation of industry professionals.
Resources and services to help members in the entertainment and media businesses, who are living a transformational lifestyle, to connect with their like-spirited peers. GATE offerings will encourage collaboration to create content that expresses transformational intentions and values.
Within the trade, support to help the larger media and entertainment communities understand transformation and its importance in a cultural and global context, and to help them become comfortable with the reality of transformation. In the public arena, to help legitimize the genre of transformational entertainment and of transformational content in the media.
All of GATE’s activities are created to further these intentions in the world.
We are the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment. The personal and social transformation underway is occurring worldwide. Word about GATE has reached every corner of the earth, and we have received interested inquiries about GATE from professionals in more than 70 countries. There is a widespread intention to launch GATE chapters, not only in major U.S. cities, but worldwide.
We are currently in conversations with several of these innovators around the world, and are developing the policies, guidelines and legal agreements thy will need to establish their chapters. We expect several of these will launch in 2012.
To cite our friend, visionary psychologist and author Peter Russell, this is the global brain of GATE awakening and being activated as a network of transformational entertainment and media professionals around the world.
We are the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment. The personal and social transformation underway is occurring worldwide. Word about GATE has reached every corner of the earth, and we have received interested inquiries about GATE from professionals in more than 70 countries. There is a widespread intention to launch GATE chapters, not only in major U.S. cities, but worldwide.
We are currently in conversations with several of these innovators around the world, and are developing the policies, guidelines and legal agreements thy will need to establish their chapters. We expect several of these will launch in 2012.
To cite our friend, visionary psychologist and author Peter Russell, this is the global brain of GATE awakening and being activated as a network of transformational entertainment and media professionals around the world.
Expressions of Appreciation for GATE
Emails we’ve received that speak for themselves. We’re happy to share them with you. And please don’t hesitate to write! …
“Albert Einstein once said, ‘We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’ Considering that the discoveries of quantum physics have only recently been brought to the attention of common people primarily through the inventions of devices that quantum physics itself has made possible, such as the modern computer and the laser which made possible recording vast amounts of data on new forms of everyday devices, it is already apparent that quantum physics has changed our thinking regarding our technologically advanced world. We now see, practically instantly, what’s going on around our world as if it was happening around our corner.
“As Marshall McLuhan promised a long time ago, The medium is the message. This means that the form of the medium is itself the message. Thus we enter a quantum age wherein a symbiotic and reciprocal relationship ensues by which the medium influences how the message is perceived and that message perception in turn influences how we make media. McLuhan proposed that a medium itself, not the content it carries, should be the focus of study. He said that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not only by the content delivered over the medium, but also by the characteristics of the medium itself.
“Nowhere else is this more true than in our current world. GATE is a welcome call that we as media makers are now, with open hearts and minds, hearkening to. We live in a quantum age wherein what we do affects how we do it and how we do it affects what we do. Not only is the medium the message, but the observer of that medium is also the creator of its message. Learning to assume responsibility for our creations not only transforms the world ‘out there’ but perhaps more importantly it transforms us in here.’”
Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. aka Dr. Quantum, Physicist, author, film personality, and internationally known speaker
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