Media Press Kit Global Enlightenment A Plan for World Peace An integrated motion picture production company, streaming video hub, Internet radio production network, book publishing, gaming and international events corporation dedicated to creating Global Enlightenment. Offices in Laguna Beach, California; Reno, Nevada, and Chennai & Bangalore, India. Global Enlightenment Productions, LLC. c. 2016 all rights reserved. 1
Global Enlightenment Management Gwen Lentz, CPA Executive Producer Gwen serves to manage the assets of the company, oversee the production of the programs and products and debuts as co-host and co-writer in Enlightenment Now, the Awakening of Humanity as well as assistant Director and investor. She has over twenty years of accounting and financial management expertise, auditing and expert witness experience and decades of involvement with spiritual disciplines and the awakening of consciousness of the planet. Steven S. Sadleir Executive Producer, Creator & Host Steven S. Sadleir serves as Executive Producer, is the principal creator and writer and serves as host, or talent, in each of the productions. Steven is a Kundalini Master in the lineage of Vethathiri Maharishi and a Siddha Yogi having apprenticed with Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj, and has students in over 120 countries. He is the author and producer of several successful books, videos, audio recordings and DVD s. He has been host of Enlightenment Radio for over 10 years, and has both interviewed many the world leaders and been interviewed on dozens of television and radio programs. Steven has been publically speaking and training for over 30 years, and has students all over the world. Steven also appears (as himself) in two spiritual motion pictures: Spiritual Revolution (along with H. H. Dalai Lama, Amma, Professor Robert Thurman, and other spiritual leaders) and in 3 Magic Words (along with Neal Donald Walsh and other new-thought leaders), and has hosted two television series SpiritClips for the Hallmark Channel and The Enlightenment in post now. 2
Steven co-wrote and hosted Enlightenment Now, the Awakening of Humanity, which comes out early 2017. The other role Mr. Sadleir plays is financial. Steven has a Master s in Financial Economics and has worked as an international banker, investment banker, fund advisor and financial guru. He has raised millions of dollars and set up financial structures in the billions. He has spoken at the National Association of Broadcasters on the subject of digital media and has assembled a powerful production team dedicated to the enlightenment of mankind. Gabreal Franklin Director of Photography Gabreal Franklin has served as assistant director in such Hollywood hits as Independence Day, Stargate and Pinocchio, and is one of leading documentary filmmakers of our day, having interviewed such luminaries as His Holiness the Dalai Lama (numerous times), Desmond Tutu, President George W. Bush and Barrack Obama and a who s who of spiritual, social and political leaders. Gabreal is a partner in All Planet Studios with a global network of film crews, editors and distribution channels. His clients include: MGM, Le Studio Canal +, United Artist and Universal Studios, Disney, Buena Vista, TriStar, 20 th Century Fox, Columbia, Polygram and Gramersy, and he has also done work for NASA, Lockheed, Intel, Apple, Oracle and the Ames Research Center. To date they have garnered over 14 industry awards. Gabreal has also produced media events, music sound tracks and has vast experience in pre and post production. 3
Raj Mohan Subramuian Producer, India Lead Production Unit Raj Mohan Subramuian is a partner at Square Hills Network, in Chennai and Bangalore, India, specializing in television commercial production, documentary film production and public relations. Raj was also serving in capacity of director, camera man and co-writing Enlightenment Now. Post-Production Team We have assembled a remarkable editing team in Reno, Nevada, with Randal, Richard and Sam shown with Gwen above, each with extensive experience in television and film production and editing, special effects and musical production and editing. We have also built strategic relationships with film distributors, Public Relations and have an SEO marketing team in place, and a global market familiar with Steven s work. Global Enlightenment Productions currently has three films in various stages and several series in production. 1. Enlightenment Now, the Awakening of Humanity. Completed documentary released in 2017. 2. Global Enlightenment, a Plan for World Peace. A US documentary currently in Production. 3. Yoga, the Movie. A feature film in pre-production now. 4
Global Enlightenment Productions has completed a U.S. Documentary Film entitled Enlightenment Now, The Awakening of Humanity, which is scheduled for release in 2017. Log Line: Big Synopsis: The world s leading gurus come together to discuss the enlightenment of the world and awakening of humanity. American Guru, Steven S. Sadleir travels throughout India to meet with the world s leading gurus and masters to discuss the current Global Enlightenment and Awakening of Humanity, and is interviewed to explain the shifts that are currently occurring within the world. We discuss: What is enlightenment? What is yoga and meditation? What is the role of the Guru? What is the science of enlightenment and how can one attain it? Steven has a series of discussions with the world s mega gurus, including: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the Art of Living Foundation, Jaggi Vasudeva at the Isha Foundation, Vedic scholar and best-selling author Swami Sukabodhananda, the Guruji of the Kriya Yoga Ashram in Allahabad, as well as Sri Jagadish at the Shivabalayogi Ashram in Bangalore, the famous Kundalini Master TKS Guru in Tiruneveli, and Tantric master Sri Manesh. Steven is also interviewed by several television stations and leads meditations around India. The transitions between questions include breathtaking shots of Indian temples, the Himalayas, and the Ganges River. The viewer is given a rich display of holy places and people. We introduce new Indian music and classic live vedic chants and conclude with a guided meditation and Shaktipat transmission, never done on film before A Global Enlightenment Film, by All Planet Studios and Square Hills Productions. 1 hour 31 minutes. To watch the preview clips go to www.enlightenmentnow.com Featured films at 5
Global Enlightenment Productions is currently in production on another U.S. Documentary Film entitled Global Enlightenment, a Plan for World Peace. Global Enlightenment has completed over a dozen interviews from around the world, and has another dozen to complete through 2016 and into 2017 for a 2018 release. Log Line: Creating the World that We All Want to Live In. Film Synopsis: We are co-creating a plan for world peace. We are simply approaching the world s greatest leaders and asking them what they think we can do to create a prosperous, happy and peaceful world to create Global Enlightenment. These broad categories include: Religious and spiritual leaders Political & social leaders Business leaders and scientists Artists, entertainers and youth We are basically following the path that the host, Steven S. Sadleir, took while writing his bestselling book Looking for God, a Seeker s Guide to Religious and Spiritual Groups of the World where he interviewed most of the major religious teachers of the world, and as well as Steven s other books Money & Power, which describes our social-economic-political state and solutions to creating a better economy and political system, as well has his other book The Theory of Existence, which discusses the new science and technology which is changing the world. We are creating the world s greatest brain-trust for change. We are currently in production and have interviewed such luminaries as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jaggi Vasudeva, Swami Sukabodhananda, TKS Guru, Kriya Guruji, Sri Jaggadesh and Dr. Manesh as well as Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Wavy Gravy most noted for being the MC for Woodstock, co-founder of the Seva Foundation, and part of the Grateful Dead rock movement. We are currently scheduling interviews with several political national leaders, actors, business entrepreneurs and scientists and plan to finish filming by Mid 2017. 6
Yoga, the Movie Global Enlightenment is currently in pre-production on a feature film called Yoga, the Movie, which is being filmed concurrently with Global Enlightenment with the same crew. Yoga is a US feature film will begin filming in March of 2017 at the Rishikesh Film Festival, where several events are planned pertaining to Yoga and Global Enlightenment which will be filmed, the release date is 2018. Log Line: Synopsis: Yoga is the movie about you; it s about who you are and why you were born. Yoga, the Movie, is a beautiful guided visualization and journey within your own being. Yoga, the science of the Self, dates back to earliest civilization. Our story begins at the very beginning of mankind and follows the history of yoga from the pre-flood civilization of Dwarka only recently discovered beneath the sea, and Lord Krishna s discourse on Yoga and how to enlighten, and continues through the Indus Valley Civilization over seven thousand years old, where art depicts yogis performing yoga postures and meditating, and then through Buddha, Christ, and dozens of avatars, masters, swamis and saints to the present age and the awakening of consciousness that is occurring on the planet right now and the movement of yoga around the world one of the biggest shifts that has ever occurred in the history of the world. American Guru Steven S. Sadleir leads the viewer on a journey through time, a journey within their own being, and through the journey Steven took studying with most of the lineages and many of the teachers of yoga and the trials and tribulations that he undertook, and what the viewer will as they embark on their own journey of enlightenment. Steven guides them on their journey as they are watching the movie. Yoga, the Movie, is a guided visualization meditation. We introduce the viewer to the world s greatest living masters, guide the viewer in their own seated yoga practice as they are watching and provides some of the most beautiful images from around the world Sringar, Bhutan, Bali, Mexico, Hawaii, Tahiti, etc. - to meditate, chant and hear poetry too. We go to the most holy sites and most holy people on the planet to pick up their energy. By the end of the film the audience will enlighten, and be among the first to bring this higher understanding of our nature and purpose into the world. The audience plays a part in the biggest shift in consciousness that has ever occurred in the history of civilization. The end. A Global Enlightenment Feature Film, LLC, with All Planet Studio Productions, LLC In pre-production and begin filming in India March 2017 at the International Yoga Festival and the Rishikesh Art & Film Festival which we are co-hosting. 7
Serialization & Streaming All our interviews are filmed in segments and edited for a series on these respective subjects: The interviews with the Gurus The interviews, talks and guided meditations with Steven The yoga asana instruction series and talks Steven also has 20 courses on MP3 which can be used for more series A 13 part series Steven did on Enlightenment is on post-production now Upcoming Streaming Series Steven has written a number of popular books, including two best-sellers, which have been made into courses and prepared into a series of streaming video productions that are scheduled for production and release over 2017, 2018 and 2019. These streaming series include: 1. Christ Enlightened, the Lost Teaching of Jesus 2. The Theory of Existence & Science of Consciousness 8
3. Looking for God, Religions & Spiritual Paths of the World 4. Success Strategies for Teenagers and Young Adults 5. Money & Power, the Secret History 6. The Book of Secrets 7. Guided Meditations 9
Screenplays A completed screenplay called Christ Enlightened, the Lost Teachings of Jesus Unveiled, which is under negotiation now for production. Based on Steven s popular non-fiction book Christ Enlightened, the Lost Teachings of Jesus Unveiled. This screenplay just received laurels at the Back in the Box screenplay competition. Steven has also been approached by several production companies to make a movie based on his life story, and an autobiography has recently been written to support a screenplay on this subject. Steven has hundreds of talks on MP3, videos on MP4, and ten years of product content that can be repurposed for video applications. Gaming the Movie The Enlightenment App The feature film and streaming website will also feature an app which enables the audience to track their state of consciousness as they are viewing, and can interact with others so see how their energy is moving. Participants will be able to engage the content at a whole new level of participation by checking their app while watching the movie or the streaming videos online. As the viewer goes into different mental and emotional states during the viewing their smart phone app can track their progress and they can share with their friends or others who connect with us online. This makes the movie, and the website, a game which engages the viewer and enables Global Enlightenment to go viral. The app is downloadable for free and will in turn help promote out content. The participants will be able to track their enlightenment as it is occurring Streaming Video Productions You can watch movies online now, with pay per view or advertising options, and a shopping cart for related products and services. We are developing a subscription base to develop relationships with our customers. For Sponsorships and Financial enquiries contact: Gwen Lentz, CPA 1-775-527-0710 Gwen.lentz@gmail.com Steven S. Sadleir, Global Enlightenment, LLC 668 No. Coast Hwy. #417 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Sadleir1@cox.net 949-376-8233 May the Whole World Live in Peace 10
The Story of Steven S. Sadleir Steven Surf Sadleir was born January 26, 1958 in Newport Beach, California: Sun in Aquarius, Aries Moon and Rising. His father was a carpenter and surfer and mother a housewife. Steven s earliest memories were living in a spiritual world, he would often sit in meditation cross-legged with his eyes closed for hours at a time, meditating without any formal instruction. His parents had no particular spiritual inclination but his grandparents were Baptist Fundamentalist Christian and through his grandmother, Ruth, he developed a deep love for God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Steven was a loner, rarely socializing with other children but rather spending time with Christ, Angels, Orbs, Satya Sai Baba the Avatar of India (who Steven later met in India, and who gave Steven his spiritual name Sai ), as well as highly intelligent beings from other star systems. So Steven paid little attention to school, family or making friends. He was on a mission from the beginning. At eight years old Steven had a near death experience during a surgery and left his body. During this time he could see his body on the operating table as the doctors tried to bring him back to life, God spoke to Steven and told him he had to go back to complete a mission. That mission was later revealed when at sixteen Steven undertook a vision quest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, and climbed to the top of the Palisades Glacier, near Independence, California, to meditate and pray facing the East towards Death Valley. Here God spoke to Steven and sent him on a mission to study, and write about, every major religious sect, spiritual teaching and guru in the world and to write a book about them to help others realize the Oneness of God. Steven spent the next sixteen years of his life studying each spiritual teaching, traveling the world to meet and study with the world s great spiritual masters and in 1992 The Spiritual Seeker s Guide was published. An updated edition was re-published by Penguin-Perigee in 2000 under the title Looking for God, a Seeker s Guide to Religious and Spiritual Groups of the World and it became a best-seller on Amazon. This became Steven s basic training as a spiritual teacher. In the beginning Steven was focusing on studying Judaism and Christianity; he has taken dozens of college courses in these religious subjects and attended over one hundred different 11
sects of Christianity alone to learn about each perspective first hand. He has himself lectured on every chapter of the Bible, Old and New, at colleges and in his online courses. Moreover, Steven specializes in first century Christianity - the Kabbalah, the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Essenes, Gnosticism, and The Semitic Gospels of Jesus - and has written a scholarly book on the subject called Christ Enlightened, the Lost Teachings of Jesus Unveiled. A screenplay has also been adapted from this book and he is to be made into a feature film. He has studied with the Druids in Wales, UK, been initiated into numerous pagan sects and wiccan covens, and been initiated into most of the ancient mystery schools, cults, new age teachings and taken dozens of shamanic journeys, as recounted in his book. He has traveled to the back woods of Borneo, the hill tribes and head hunters of Luzon, taken shamanic voyages with Incas from Peru, Kahunas in Hawaii, and vision quests with some of the most respected elders of the Native people of America, such as Wallace Black Elk. He has traveled to over 40 nations to meet with those who carry the traditions of the past before they are lost to the world. Steven began practicing yoga as a child learning Hatha and Raja yoga by watching Richard Hittleman s Yoga for Health on the television after school back in the 1960 s, and later studied with Sri Ramakrishna at the Yoga Center in Costa Mesa, California, in the early 1970 s. Steven took further yoga training with Vishnudevananda at the Sivananda School, and with B.K.S. Iyengar, Choudhury Bikram and Kundalini yoga with Yogi Bhajan in Los Angeles, as well as many others. He has studied each major school of yoga. Steven was guided to Kriya Yoga by Babaji as a child, and first took his training at the Self Realization Fellowship in California, then with Yogi Sidhohji (now Guru Siddhanath) in Pune, India, and later with Kriyababa in Orissa, India, and with deeper training with Chuni Lal Lahiri, the great grandson of the founder Lahiri Mahasai, in Varinassi, India. Moreover, Sri Yukteswar himself materialized before Steven, in Pune, India, and before others to witness, and gave Steven diksha directly. Steven s first formal initiation into meditation was through Transcendental Meditation, or TM, on his sixteenth birthday, and he practiced this mantra meditation for many years. He first received Shaktipat from Baba Muktananda of the Sydha Foundation, and then later with Swami Laksmana Joo of the Kashmiri lineage of Kundalini Shaktipat masters. Steven also studied the Mid-Eastern teachings of Sufism with Pir Viliat Inyat Khan, the Kabbalah with Rabbi Philip S. Berg, Taoism and Kung Fu with Master Ho, Zen Buddhism with Roshi Suzuki, and took refuge (initiation), and all the empowerments, with Kalu Rinpoche of the Tibetan form of Buddhism. After years of teaching yoga and meditation Steven was called to go even deeper and prayed for a Master who could help him complete his mission, and during one deep meditation he was given a vision of a guru whose face then miraculously appeared on a flyer at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in Los Angeles the next day. Yogiraj Vethathiri Maharishi was giving a talk in Los Angeles and when Steven arrived the following day this Swamiji was waiting for him. He took the initiation with this Maharishi, and subsequent teacher training in kundalini yoga, apprenticed for years and was guided by Swamiji to develop a teaching center in Laguna Beach they named The Self Awareness Institute or SAI in 1985. Steven was trained by the Maharishi as a Kundalini Master, and when Swamiji stopped coming to the United States due to his age, he asked Steven to continue teaching and training, which he has over the past two decades to thousands in over 120 countries. The other major guru for Steven was Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj, who spent twelve years in yoga tapas, and was known as the rain making yogi for his ability to alter the weather and 12
make it rain. Over a period of several years Steven traveled with both the Maharishi and the Maharaj and learned how to teach at the sides of these illustrious Masters he was serving. In 1990 Shivabalayogi called Steven to India to do Yoga Tapas under his direction, and he begun and intense sadhana of sitting for, first, twelve hours a day for weeks, then increasing his meditation week by week to sitting twenty-three hours a day in Samadhi for forty consecutive days and nights. Afterwards Swamiji asked Steven to give Shaktipat to the world, and he has. In addition to his best-seller Looking for God, a Seeker s Guide to Religious & Spiritual Paths of the World, Steven has published several other popular books including: The Awaking, an Evolutionary Leap in Human Consciousness; The Calling, a Journey Within Your Own Being; Naked Soul (spiritual poetry); Yoga Basics; Self-Realization; Christ Enlightened, The Lost Teachings of Jesus Unveiled; Money & Power, the Secret History, and The Theory of Existence & the Science of Consciousness. Steven also has dozens of DVD and CD sets, online courses, and MP3 s on itunes. He is also a co-author of another best-seller called Wake Up, Live the Life you Love, with Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and other new thought leaders. Mr. Sadleir has over 30 years of public speaking, video production and radio hosting experience and is a leading visionary for enlightenment. He has been host of Enlightenment Radio, one of the most listened to spiritual talk radio shows on the Internet listened to in over 120 countries, for ten years. He has also been interviewed on over one hundred radio and television shows, including Fox and CNN, and a keynote speaker all over the world. Mr. Sadleir also hosted an eight part series on Enlightenment last year for the United Nations Peace Day on PeaceDay.tv and also hosted another eight episode series television show about developing higher consciousness called Spirit-Clips that aired on the Hallmark Channel (now Feel n) in 2014. He has also recently completed another 13 episodes of a series called The Enlightenment with Streaming for the Soul in Burbank, California, which is in post-production now. Steven S. Sadleir also appears in several motion pictures. He appears as one of many gurus in the award winning spiritual documentary Spiritual Revolution, along with such luminaries as His Holiness the Dali Lama, Amma, and Professor Robert Thurman. Steven also plays himself, the American Guru, in the feature film 3 Magic Words, along with best-selling author Neal Donald Walsh and other new thought leaders. Mr. Sadleir is currently in production on, and staring in, a feature film called Global Enlightenment, a Plan for World Peace, which should be completed in 2017. Moreover, Steven has also just completed his own US documentary feature film entitled Enlightenment Now, the Awakening of Humanity which will be released at the Rishikesh Film Festival in early 2017. Here Steven met with and discussed the enlightenment of mankind with the world s leading spiritual masters, such as, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Satguru Jaggi Vasudeva, Swami Sukabodhananda, TKS Guruji the Kundalini Master, Sri Jagadish, Dr. Manesh and Guruji the leader of the Kriya ashram in Allahabad, India. Steven has never married, lives alone in Laguna Beach, California. When he is not teaching or meditating he is surfing. Educationally, Steven received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Menlo College, cum laude, won the Rotary Scholarship to study international banking at the University of Wales in Bangor, United Kingdom, where he received a Master of Arts in Financial Economics. He later worked as an economist for the United States government at the East-West Center, as an international banker at Lloyds Bank in Los Angeles, a National Sales Manager for EMB Bancorp in Newport Beach, and then as an investment banker and fund advisor to some of the largest investment funds in the world. He occasionally provides seminars and training to key executives and celebrities, but retired from business in 2008 to spread enlightenment for all mankind. For more see www.enlightenmentnow.com. 13
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Steven S. Sadleir on the set With Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for Global Enlightenment The American Guru. May the whole world live in peace. 16