Seeing that the Global Peace Education Network (GPEN) with many people with Knowledge (PWKs a/k/a premies) on its staff is sponsoring a conference with a theme of empowering children, I was curious enough to look into it a little further. Although it's highly unlikely that premies had anything to do with its creation, they surely must have a substantial influence.
Following is the website for the Global Peace Education Network (not to be confused with Prem Rawat's Peace Education Program):
Based on its website:
• Prem Rawat is a member of the GPEN faculty and also a speaker at the conference you posted about.
• Michael Nouri, a known premie, is the host of the conference.
• The Prem Rawat Foundation and at least one other premie enterprise are GPEN partners.
• The GPEN is circulating a petition to establish a United Nations Global Peace Education Day, presumably influenced by Prem Rawat and/or premie staff members:
https://www.globalpeaceeducation.com/engage/petition
• The GPEN staff includes at least six and likely seven or more premies:
Exective Producer, both Legal Advisors, Information Technology Manager, Graphics (one), and one Arts & Culture Co-Chair. The second Arts & Culture Co-chair has many premie friends on Facebook.
• I personally crossed paths with six GPEN staff members, two of whom I considered friends.
• I'm sure there's more premie connections, but I'm getting lazy in my old age.
I view this as a good example of the new face of the cult I've been trying to describe. In my opinion, it's a shapeshifting, chameleon-like creature that takes on the sheen of unimpeachable legitimacy through its appearance and association with other groups. It seeks to infiltrate genuinely legitimate and unimpeachable organizations to the extent that only a jaded mind can criticize it. After all, who doesn't support peace and such high-minded and legitimate initiatives?
On a slightly different note:
On the TPRF website, Prem Rawat's Peace Education Program is described as "an innovative series of video-based workshops that help people discover their own inner strength and personal peace." I also noticed in a recent clip that Prem described the inner experience as "indestructible." I interpreted that as a far more generic and non-controversial alternative to the former god, eternal, immortal and what not. Apparently, PEP guides people to find personal peace and indestructible inner strength. I picture it as something like inspirational confidence building as in "I'm cool. My inner strength is solid, stable and indestructible! Thank you Prem. You're alright!" Keeping in mind that unsuspecting people don't view all this with the same skepticism as ex-premies, no wonder the kids like it.
Thanks for having such a good radar that spots these things!