Pretty sure you can. Shouldn't be that hard to test- just get another healer to curse you.

Gating to mobs is perhaps the most useful aspect of that commune. Though, you want to choose low-level mobs since you fail a lot less often. And you want them to be as uniquely named as possible. "co gate boy" probably isn't going to take you to the "boy" you intended.

It also works well with summoners. If you wan to be able to get somewhere quick, but there aren't any low-level mobs nearby, just have the summoner guy summon something. The flip side of that is that enemy summoners can try to summon your gate mobs out of their normal locations in order to set up a trap.