LIFELIHOOD.ZONE

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INTRODUCTION
Lifelihood.Zone, centered on the US–Mexico border, in the US comprises (east to west) southern Texas, all of New Mexico, most of Arizona, and Southern California. In Mexico, Lifelihood.Zone comprises (east to west) the northern regions of the tier of states adjoining the US–Mexico border: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, and Coahuila bordering Texas; Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico; Sonora bordering New Mexico and Arizona; and Baja California bordering California.

Lifelihood.Zone is focused 1) on Prem Rawat‘s offer and his efforts to make it known worldwide, 2) on collaboration among Lifelihood.Zone residents to make Prem Rawat‘s offer conveniently accessible, 3) on details for Prem Rawat of air navigation and land arteries across Lifelihood.Zone, and 4) on briefs for Prem Rawat emphasizing the adjoining Lifelihood.Zone US and Mexican states as multicultural intersections, primarily sovereign Amerindians – Native Americans, and regionally variant Anglos, African Americans – Blaxicans, Afro-Mexicans, and Hispanics.

Hemispheric and global awareness of events in Lifelihood.Zone is sharpened by 1) Amerindian–Native American groups across North America, who strengthen mutual solidarity by sharing details of their activities, 2) centuries of Anglo and Hispanic migration into Lifelihood.Zone, creating generations-deep family ties worldwide, 3) increased popular awareness – in part resulting from official acknowledgment – of contributions of African, Blaxican and Afro-Mexican cultures in cuisine, arts, music, and vocabulary, and 4) Lifelihood.Zone high technology centers drawing, from far-flung constituencies, researchers who regularly travel internationally to attend and present at colloquia where they also discuss happenings in their current locales with former and prospective colleagues.

Recognitions of Prem Rawat‘s offer and lifework include an honorary doctoral degree (Doctorate in Literature [D. Litt.]) bestowed September 30, 2025, by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (see also here and here) (BRAOU), Hyderabad, Telangana (see also here), India, at the 26th Convocation of BRAOU in Bhavanam Venkatram Auditorium on the BRAOU campus in Hyderabad. Watch the presentation of the honorary doctoral degree and Prem Rawat‘s acceptance address here, beginning at 01:05:20. See also congratulatory text messages below the video. See text excerpt of Prem Rawat‘s address here.

For a survey of Prem Rawat‘s multiple approaches to spreading awareness of his offer worldwide, in Contents below, go to PREM RAWAT. For those interested in receiving and exploring his Knowledge and in participating (for example, as a Knowledge Session team member or as a Peace Education Program (PEP) facilitator), in Contents below, go to Knowledge for Life and to Participation Centers Worldwide. Or one could develop a center. Participation experiences range from the mundane but indispensable to the unexpectedly exotic. For an overview of participation preparatory to a November 16, 2024, event in Toamasina, Madagascar, go here, then here. For an overview of the global teams responsible for supporting Knowledge Sessions and Knowledge Reviews, go here.

TimelessToday produces Prem Rawat‘s events and their livestreams and replays (in multiple language translations), music, on-line copies of his radio and TV interviews, excerpts of his offer by theme from all his outreach, and other free and subscriber content.

CONTENTS
PREM RAWAT
The Offer
Knowledge
Knowing
Books
Biography
Music
Aspects of Events and Other Outreach
Outreach Spectrum
Pending Events and Other Outreach
Replays of Events and Other Outreach
Rotating Replays of Archived Events and Other Outreach
Participation Centers Worldwide
Mass Communication and Media Guidance
LIFELIHOOD.ZONE
Margins
Transits
East-West Highways
North-South Highways
Airports in Mexico
Airports in the US
Hubs
Mexico Event and Other Outreach Facilities
US Event and Other Outreach Facilities
Cultures
Amerindians-Native Americans
Anglos
Blaxicans and Afro-Mexicans
Hispanics
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PREM RAWAT: THE OFFER
Aren’t you, every day, trying to make your life better? Better? Better? Better? And have you succeeded? Have you succeeded? Have you succeeded? What is it that needs to be made better? You, or everything else in your life? So, trying to make everything else better in their life: you are not the first one. And you’re not going to be the last one. If you have a child, your child will do the same thing, his child will do the same thing, his child will do the same thing, his child will do the same thing, his child will do the same thing, till there is no more Earth. This is what everybody has tried to do. Make all the things better that don’t need to be better, because that’s not their nature to be better. It is so futile. So many people have said it’s like a wave. Things happen, and if things are going good, just wait. It’ll go bad. If things are going bad, just wait. It’ll go good. And it’s good and bad, and good and bad, and good and bad. And you will try to make it flat. People have been trying to improve the world since a very long time, and it has been billions and billions of people trying to do it, trying to do it, and trying to do it, and not succeeding, and not succeeding, and not succeeding. Forget about the world! Improve yourself. Make yourself a better person. We have to learn how to help ourselves so that this world can be full of people who like their betterment. Then it starts to become better, and better, and better, and better. — Prem Rawat: “The Student’s Reality” (01:10:41); October 22, 2023, Tokyo, Japan. “The Student’s Reality” quotations: 00:11:50 – 00:12:00; 12:49:00 – 00:13:05; 00:16:17 – 00:17:28; 00:20:29 – 00:21:05; 00:50:18 – 00:50:36; 00:52:18 – 00:52:25; and 01:06:35 – 01:07:06. “The Student’s Reality” free “Preview” quotations: 00:43:56 – 00:45:15 and 00:49:14 – 00:50:14. Replays of events and other outreach by Prem Rawat are also offered free on a rotating basis. “The Student’s Reality” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

Inside every human being is a thirst–a thirst–to experience something beautiful. I’m not going to insult that feeling by giving it names that mean nothing to human beings, but I will call it by what it is. It is beautiful….I will call it with the name that my heart sings to say of what it is. But it is beautiful. But it is gentle. That it is complete. That when I experience that, I, too, become complete. Not because I have achieved something, but I felt something. It is as though I reached out and touched divinity, and I was complete. What is it described as? It’s described as simple as falling asleep without being asleep…That’s the journey I want every human being to take. Not the journey of confusion. You don’t know the hoops I have gone through to keep everything simple. And people wanted to hear complicated things, as they do now. They want to hear complicated things because that entertains your brain, the very thing that cannot be employed or deployed in feeling that feeling. It is that one thing that does not go in the realm of the heart. And the experience I am talking about comes from the heart. Now there are people who don’t believe in the heart. It’s only the mind. But there are times when even the mind falls still. It falls still. — Prem Rawat: “Hear Yourself” author event (01:34:38); July 03, 2022, Berlin, Germany. “Hear Yourself” author event quotations: 30:35 – 31:31; 35:40 – 36:49; and 37:27 – 39:00. “Hear Yourself” author event free “Preview” quotation: 29:18 – 30:15. Replays of events and other outreach by Prem Rawat are also offered free on a rotating basis. “Hear Yourself” author event quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

Are you clear on why you are alive? Are you? To have a business? To have a house? To have children? Why? Why are you alive?…You are the host of that breath. You are the host. The breath. The breath is your guest. It is not some random deed that takes place.…You are the host and the guest comes. Are you ready? Are you ready? To come in and with a singular purpose–a singular purpose to accept the arrival of the guest. And feel the joy. When you are waiting for a guest to come to your house, and when they finally come: “Yes! They’re here!” Yes, this breath is here. Yes, this life is here. Yes, this existence is here. Yes, my connection, my invitation to feel that divine is here. And this is what makes me so fortunate.…Everything you see changes, changes, changes, changes, changes. And one thing that doesn’t change. Do you know for how long this has been playing out on the face of this earth, as the divine that resides in the heart of every single human being has been?…What I have to accept is the reality of me. My effort, my practice — my practice — your practice. I know some of you are very busy. You have this happening. You have that happening. This is taking place. That is taking place. This is important. That is important. Eventually, my friends, the time will come when all that has to be said goodbye to. All of it. Slowly the body that you were so proud of starts to fail.…Where is the divine sitting? Not on top of a mountain! In your heart. Not in some temple. In your heart. In you! Do you know that? That’s how clarity begins. That’s how clarity begins. When you understand those things then nobody has to come and try to sell you enhancements to your existence.…When this transformation will begin for you, things will change. Things will change. You will begin to feel how fortunate you are. Then the entire purpose of Knowledge of the self will bear fruit.…So be, be that incredible, incredible being that you are. Be the most amazing host and welcome the guest with open arms. Your life. Your existence. You know, then, the preciousness of being. You know, then, what it means to be alive. Nobody has to explain it to you. — Prem Rawat: “The Guest” <<el Huésped>> (00:58:07); March 02, 2024, Mexico City, Mexico. Quotations (Citaciones): 00:36:04 – 00:36:45; 00:37:10 – 00:37:37; 00:39:07 – 00:40:35; 00:41:32 – 00:42:02; 00:43:00 – 00:43:53; 00:47:50 – 00:48:31; 00:50:20 – 00:50:53; and 00:53:33 – 00:54:36. “The Guest” <<el Huésped>> quotations (citaciones) © TimelessToday. Learn more (Preguntas Generales). Subscriptions (Suscripciones).

In this world, so far you are on this earth, you are the guest. The divine is the host. In the heart–in the heart–you are the host. The divine is the guest.…You need to have the guest taken care of. The divine. You need to live for today. Not tomorrow. Today. And in today you don’t have to have any ill feelings about this and that and this isn’t right and that’s not right and this happened–the long list of everything that is wrong. Right? So you came, and when you were that tiny little baby, how long was your list of wrongs? How long? And you have lived on this planet Earth for a while, now, right? How long is your list of wrongs? Long? Mistake number one. Don’t let–don’t ever let that list grow. You know, if you have to have a list of wrong, then this is what your wrong should be: That I have a list of wrongs. Anything. Even if it’s one thing. Just let it go! Know how to shake it loose. Somebody says something to you. You want to get upset about it, get upset. Time yourself.…Ten minutes? Five minutes? Yeah, that’s enough. Move on. Because what do you want? Today or tomorrow? Tomorrow you can plot a lot of revenge. Today you’re too busy being happy. So live like that. Mind you, it’s not easy. No, no, no, no, no. Because there are people who really line up with you. They want to irritate you. And the more they can see you become irritated, the more they do it.…The divine has created this earth: blue skies, beautiful clouds, beautiful fruit, beautiful trees, beautiful rivers, beautiful oceans, and what do they talk about? Hell! With all this beauty, this is all you can see? Because you are a dealer for tomorrow. That’s what happens when you are a dealer for tomorrow. You should be busy with today. And today is about Knowledge. Today is about your breath. Today is about being conscious. Today is about joy. — Prem Rawat: “Today: The Bright Future” (00:58:30), March 30, 2024, São Paulo, Brazil. “Today: The Bright Future” quotations: 00:48:05 – 00:48:45; 00:50:59 – 00:53:11; 00:53:35 – 00:54:22; and 00:54:51 – 00:55:33. “Today: The Bright Future” free “Preview” quotations: 00:35:22 – 00:36:13; and 00:47:34 – 00:47:56. Replays of events and other outreach by Prem Rawat are also offered free on a rotating basis. “Today: The Bright Future” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

[T]here is a kind of love that every human being innately has. And that love is all about connection, connecting with the divine. Not some idea of the divine, but the divine, that divine that resides in the heart of every human being.…[Y]ou, me, being alive, we have the opportunity to experience that divine. Now, this is no small matter. A flower blooms when we understand who we are. And this is a very unique flower. You can’t pick it. You can’t dry it out and get more seeds from it. No. The flower blooms when we experience who we are. And it’s a beautiful flower. And immediately, there are people who go, “I would like a whole garden full of these flowers.” You can’t do that. It won’t work. This is one flower, and if you let it, this flower will produce another flower, not like itself, but very different. And it will be the flower of gratitude. This flower will produce another flower. And it’ll be the flower of joy. This flower will produce another flower. And it’ll be the flower of clarity. A little bit different than the flowers that we are familiar with.…[W]hen you have discovered the self, when you understand what the self is, you understand your connection with the divine. The day you have that Knowledge to be able to connect with yourself, the flower blooms.…I can make that possible. I have made it possible for a lot of people. But I must ask you, is that what you want? — Prem Rawat; “Heartful” (01:01:13), February 14, 2023, Malibu, California. “Heartful” quotations: 00:01:09 – 00:01:46; 00:03:33 – 00:05:34; 00:10:15 – 00:11:22; and 00:52:25 – 00:52:43. “Heartful” free “Preview” quotation: 00:46:10 – 00:47:00. Replays of events and other outreach by Prem Rawat are also offered free on a rotating basis. “Heartful” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

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PREM RAWAT: KNOWLEDGE
There are people who heard about the possibility of Knowledge and broke down and started crying and crying, and they had no idea why they’re crying. And all it is, is something from the inside saying, “Thank you!” To you. To you! To you, of having found Knowledge. Found, not sold to an idea of. No, but having found Knowledge. Connection made. Like the weight of a thousand mountains removed. The complicated simplified. And something so simple, so profound, made possible. But you have to, in your life, somehow find the courage–yeah, thousand problems on one scale and gratitude on the other. And have the courage to weigh it. Because you know what will happen. Nobody can be thankful for the problems, but you can be thankful for that gift of being alive. — Prem Rawat: “Nothing Without Breath” (00:59:48); March 16, 2024, Punta del Este, Uruguay. “Nothing Without Breath” quotation: 00:33:16 – 00:36:05. “Nothing Without Breath” free “Preview” quotation: 00:07:48 – 00:10:05. Replays of events and other outreach by Prem Rawat are also offered free on a rotating basis. “Nothing Without Breath” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

Do you allow yourself the experience of life, just of life. You allow yourself the experience of whatever happens because you’re alive, true, but do you allow yourself the experience of just being alive? That’s what Knowledge is all about. That’s what knowing is about. Knowing. Not believing. Knowing. My goodness, what a huge difference of these two words: knowing, believing. Knowing: no believing involved. Believing? You can even believe you know. Because it’s free-for-all. I mean, it’s like whatever you want to believe, whatever pleases you…Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Don’t lose that awe. It’s everywhere. Don’t lose that awe. And then, feel no hesitation to turn in and be awed by the presence of the divine within you. That is definitely worth the awe. So always you have the awe. Have that. Be that. And enjoy being alive. Every second. Less than a second. Every moment. — Prem Rawat: “Be in Awe” (01:06:43); May 19, 2024, Dubrovnik, Croatia. “Be in Awe” quotations: 00:52:15 – 00:53:37; and 01:04:25 – 01:05:23. “Be in Awe” free “Preview” quotations: 00:52:08 – 00:52:45; and 01:03:51 – 01:05:15). Replays of events and other outreach by Prem Rawat are also offered free on a rotating basis. “Be in Awe” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

Human beings should be given the best chance possible to be able to experience Knowledge in their lives….Giving everybody a fair chance to be able to hear, to be able to see what we are talking about….Once people can see, “Hey! I have to change!” — PEP is really good at that — “I have to change!” And once they get out of that pit, and they start to see the daylight, then they are ready for Knowledge. Then Knowledge can help them. But Knowledge cannot help a situation….Once you see that there is a whole another world, then receiving Knowledge as a human being, then the human being gets help because they get in touch with themselves. So there is a situation, and there is a human being. The human being is in the situation, but unless the human being is out of that situation, Knowledge cannot help. Knowledge doesn’t “fix” your troubles. And the beauty is that, hopefully, if you practice Knowledge, it will prevent you from getting into the pit back again. This is how Knowledge can help….In so many of the countries, countries like Egypt, countries like Lebanon, countries like–some of the Arab countries like Morocco, because they only thought about “their” country, propagation has stayed incredibly limited. If they were thinking in terms of the world–because I know there are so many Arab-speaking people in countries that are not Arab countries. They’re outside of Arab countries but have connections in Arab countries. So really we have to start thinking not just little, but big. And then what could happen in Miami, what could happen in all these places, what could happen in this world would truly, truly change. — Prem Rawat; Intelligent Existence International Conference 2024: Learning with Prem Rawat; July 10, Training Session #3: Passion (note: Access to the Intelligent Existence International Conference expired December 31, 2024, but may be offered again in the regular rotation of replays of events and other outreach); quotations 00:45:40 – 00:45:50; 00:49:40 – 00:49:50; 00:50:24 – 00:50:58; 00:51:33 – 00:52:30; 00:58:32 – 00:59:42. Quotations © Intelligent Existence.

KNOWING
“Know the Value (01:02:12),” Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 27, 2025, Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Center. Quotations (06:05 – 07:51): [A]ll day long you try to change the world, but it doesn’t work. The only thing that works is when you can accept the good news that you have. And that news, that one piece of information – one piece of information: You are alive. It is the sweetest information. It is the most wonderful information. It is greater than the sum of all the scriptures in this world. I want that last statement to sink in. No news for you will be better than the news that you are alive. It is good. It is sweet. It is REAL! BY THE WAY, IT IS REAL! (10:17 – 11:18): What will happen tomorrow? I know you want to know what will happen tomorrow, but what will happen tomorrow? No one knows. Did you know what’s going to happen today? It’s not over yet. It’s not over yet. What’s going to happen today? The only thing you know about today, tomorrow, yesterday, is what happened yesterday. Today is happening. (11:45 – 13:22): But the reality is all our lives we sit there and we pretend that the illusion is the reality. (21:33 – 21:59): When you are in the midst of the illusion, the illusion doesn’t feel or look like illusion. That’s illusion. It’s not real. It’s not real, but you don’t know that. (23:30 – 24:07): To have wisdom in your life, you need two things. One, you need knowledge. Knowledge of the self. Second, you need to practice. If you don’t practice – if you don’t practice – it doesn’t mean anything. (43:01 – 45:40): Do you know that you have eyes that don’t see physical things, but they see feelings. When you fall in love, that eye opens, and it feels the love. When you’re not in love, that eye closes, and it doesn’t see. If you want to see peace, you can see peace. But not like this, not like physical objects. But open the eyes of feeling, and you will see peace. Open the eyes of feeling, and you will see the divine. Open the eyes of feeling, and you will see your life, how connected you are. How connected you are. You are the drop from the ocean that has an ocean in the drop. And I want you to feel that ocean that is in the drop, because it doesn’t matter what happens to you, this will be the case. You are a part of this ocean. You’re a drop from this ocean, but inside of this drop there is an ocean. And when you know that – not because I said so – but when you know that, then everything changes. (48:12 – 48:35): [A] label doesn’t do it. But you live your life by labels. And the day you stop living your life by labels, and start living your life from the feeling, you will understand what life is. (50:36 – 52:02): Knowledge is that beautiful instrument, but you have to know how to play it. And the only way you will know how to play it is by practice, practice, practice, and practice. And whoever says to themselves, I only need to practice till I know how to play it is wrong, because those people who play flute or any instrument, they know that the more they play, the better they get, the more they need to practice, and the more they practice, the better they get and the more they need to practice. And they practice and they practice and they practice and they practice. And you can only understand what practice is all about when you start to listen to those notes. (53:21 – 54:26): [H]ow do you play your piano of life? Do you play the notes you have to play, or do you try to go, “i won’t do this. I won’t do this? I won’t do this. I won’t do this. I won’t do this. I won’t do this, and then i’ll have a song.” You’ve got to play those notes so that the true expression of what this existence is will come through. Then you will understand why this life is called a blessing. Then you will understand what the beauty of this heart full of gratitude is. (58:23 – 01:01:09): You are here. Know what that means. Always know what that means. Always know. That is the reflection. [T]hat king, he was getting ready for this war, for his attack on his neighbor, so all night long he’s thinking, “If I die, will I go to heaven? Will I go to hell? Will I go to heaven? Will I go to hell? Then all of a sudden, by morning he wants to know, “What is hell? What is heaven? What is hell? What is heaven?” He gets ready, gets on his horse. He goes out there, and his mind is still wondering, “What is heaven? What is hell? What is heaven? What is hell?” He sees a wise man going across the horizon. He takes his horse, runs up to him, and says, “Hey, wise man! Tell me what is heaven? What is hell?” The wise man says, “Listen. I have a long ways to go. I’m not interested in answering your question. If you don’t know, you don’t know. What’s the big deal? I don’t have the time.” The king got very upset. The king said, “How dare you! Don’t you know who I am?! I’m the king! And how can you tell the king in whose country you are, how can you tell the king you don’t have time for the king!?” The wise man looked at the king and said, “King, you are in hell. Now you’re in hell.” The king thought about it, and he goes, “It’s true. I don’t feel good. I’m all nervous, and I’m angry. Of course I’m in hell.” He got off his horse. He got on his knees, and he says, “Thank you! Thank you for telling me. You are truly wise. Thank you for helping me.” And the wise man looked at the king and says, “King, now you are in heaven.” So quickly. Not a scripture, but just a quick little word, “Now you’re in hell. Now you’re in heaven.” I like that story because it’s so simple. No big explanation, but a feeling. An understanding.“Know the Value” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

“Feel Your Thirst (01:04:21),” Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 18, 2025, Temple Trees Main Hall. Quotations (13:07 – 14:19): All the things that you have accomplished in your life, all the things you continue to accomplish in your life, all the things you dream about, all the things you try to achieve: have you achieved peace, because if you haven’t achieved peace, then all that is going to be fruitless. It’s going to mean nothing. For this life to mean something, you have to understand what is truly going on, what is truly, truly, truly going on: You were born; you’re alive; one day you have to go. (38:40 – 41:31): I say to people, First, feel your thirst. Feel your thirst. Feel your thirst. Don’t do this religiously. Feel your thirst. You want to go inside and feel the Divine? First, feel your thirst. Feel your thirst. Water tastes tasteless if you don’t have thirst. And if you have thirst, the same water, without adding sugar, becomes sweet. Feel your thirst. What are you thirsty for? You’re supposed to be thirsty to feel the heaven, to feel the joy, to feel the peace, and you have become thirsty for everything else except for those things. What’s going to happen? What’s going to happen? You will stand under the waterfall but not get wet. That’s what’s going to happen. You will be surrounded by food but you will always be hungry. You will be surrounded by water but you will always be thirsty. And when you are asleep–this is a good one–when you are asleep, you will still be awake. Tossing. Turning. Wondering. This is one of the biggest problems everybody has. Right? Can’t sleep. But that’s not why you are here. (49:20 – 51:00): Feeling the Divine, feeling the peace in your life, is not about reading. And this is coming from an author. I’ve written books. But merely by reading my books, peace will not come. You will start, then start looking. “Ah, it’s in me. It’s in me.” It is in you. The Divine is in you. And this business of knowing or feeling the Divine in you is only possible as far as you are alive. Only. Not after this. And this breath comes into you. And what does this breath say to you? “This is the blessing of the Divine. This is the blessing of the Divine. On you. This is the blessing of the Divine on you. (55:57 – 57:37): What are we entertained by? We are incredibly entertained by revenge. The bad guy gets pulverized at the end. We like that. The entertainment you seek is not on the screen. The entertainment you seek is not in the actor. The entertainment is in you. You have to learn how to evoke the entertainment of the heart. And that’s the truth. To be entertained by the existence of the Divine. To be entertained by the most incredible magic show on the face of this earth. A breath. You don’t know where it comes from, and it manifests inside of you. And what does it bring you. It brings you life. Existence. And then, whisss. Gone. “Feel Your Thirst” quotations are © TimelessToday. Learn more. Subscriptions.

Breath: Wake Up to Life, Section II, Part 6, A Thankful Heart, pages 94-97, English-language edition; © 2024 Prem Rawat: I am in awe of the strength of this existence. I am in awe of the power of this breath. I am in awe of that engine that moves, shapes, pushes, molds and evolves. I too have that same life, that existence. And in my life I need to do everything possible to pay the most magnificent tribute to this existence, to this breath, every single day of my life. When I am me, I’m the happiest. That doesn’t mean when I’m alone. It has noting to do with being alone. When I am me, who I am, who breathes and feels gratitude in their heart for being alive, this is me. A thankfulness that I am alive.Thank you for this life. Thank you for this breath. Thank you for this existence. People ask, “Well, who am I thanking?” What difference does it make? Whoever you need to thank will receive the thanks. You cannot explain breath. You need to breathe it. It cannot be explained. It can only be felt. If you begin to understand that, then a whole different door opens up to you. Not through explanations, but by feeling the preciousness and the joy of this life. The truest responsibility is to be in gratitude to that most magnificent power that has made it possible for you to be alive. In its purest and most potent form, my gratitude for this life is for the gift itself: not what it enables me to do, but just the experience of existing in this world, right now. When you learn to express gratitude, you will know what living is all about. This is how gratitude can be, not just for a moment, but flowing all the time. And what I am thankful for is this breath. To be alive! If you aren’t thankful for that, it doesn’t matter what else you’re thankful for. Because without this breath, without this life, without this existence, there is nothing. The power of this breath comes into you, even though you are surrounded by all those things that would steal it. There is a wisdom inside you that defies all ignorance. The light inside you defies the darkness all around you. There is a well inside you that defies the drought all around you. The day you disover that wisdom, the day you discover that light, the day you dscover that beauty, you will be filled with gratitude. In that perfect moment of gratitude, all distractions fade away. Even in your last breath, you should be thankful for this life. That’s a good goal to have. That’s like thanking the host. “Hey, that was good. A grand ride, a great ride. It was a wonderful time.”

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PREM RAWAT: BOOKS
Book Breath: Wake Up to Life, is Prem Rawat‘s most recent book encouraging acceptance of his offer. English-language edition © 2025; 192 pages; published by Macmillan (The St. Martin’s Publishing Group: St. Martin’s Essentials). For book information in Spanish, go here. Read and listen to excerpts through links on the Macmillan page (there are no direct links to the excerpts). Original hardcover price: $25.00. See more details and order hardcover, digital, and audio formats here, here, and here. The book has also been released in Bosnian, Croatian, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian and Spanish.

Contents:
I. WHAT IS BREATH? (1. First and Last 2. Exclusively for You) II. THE IMPORTANCE OF BREATH (1. A Valuable Gift 2. Finite and Infinite 3. Know Yourself 4. Acceptance 5. Enjoying Life 6. A Thankful Heart) III. PEACE THROUGH BREATH (1. An Abandoned Field 2. One Step at a Time 3. Humanity’s Finest Achievement 4. Come Home}

Quotations:
Breath comes and each breath brings the possibility of being fulfilled. What you are looking for is within you! Always has been and always will be. The story is not very complicated. It’s very simple. If the Divine is everywhere, then it’s within me, too. Page 41, English-language edition, © 2024 by Prem Rawat.

The source of the joy that you want, that will always be there, is inside of you, not outside. I have a heart, and to ignore my heart is the most illogical thing on the face of this earth. How can I not understand that water will quench my thirst? But where is the pleasure that water brings? Is it in the water or is it in me? The sweetness of the mango is in the mango, but enjoying that mango is inside of you. Quenching the thirst, this is the possibility. This is the strength of the water, but the pleasure of having the thirst quenched is inside of you. The one that you are looking for is inside of you. The holiest place in the whole universe is inside of you. Page 49, English-language edition, © 2024 by Prem Rawat.

Will storms come in your life? Yes. Absolutely. Will confusion knock at your door? Absolutely. Will you be in dramatic situations that are out of your control? Absolutely. But just remember that even when the wildest storm engulfs you, when chaos is afoot, when the night is as dark as it gets, there is still a lamp that is lit within you. Even when all seems to be as bad as it gets–and I will not underestimate how bad it can be. As long as this breath is coming in and out of you, you still have the companionship of the divine. When storms make you feel weak, know that the greatest strength lies with you. Page 57, English-language edition, © 2024 by Prem Rawat.

Travelers feel relief when they reach their destination. It is like when you come home or when you find what you are looking for. Even when you don’t know what you are looking for, you know instantly when you find it and you say, “This is it. This is what I was looking for.” You feel a tremendous sense of relief. Page 178, English-language edition, © by Prem Rawat.

When we can once again see with the pure eyes of our heart, then we can appreciate the gift we have been given, the gift of existence. Page 179, English-language edition, © 2024 by Prem Rawat.

Book Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World, English-language edition © 2021, 272 pages; published by HarperOne. Listen to an audio book clip, read a sample, and watch a video introduction by Prem Rawat. Links to French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish translations, to the Hindi translation, and to the German translation. Greek and Arabic translations were released in 2023. Hear Yourself in mid-2024 had been published in sixteen languages, most recently in Japanese and Korean, and is available in unexpected places, for example, the Arabic edition is available in Baghdad, Iraq. The audiobook is available to passengers on the flag carrier of Germany, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and on its subsidiary passenger airlines: Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Brussels Airlines, and Eurowings.

Availability in New Mexico:
Two Albuquerque, New Mexico, public library branches have English-language copies of Hear Yourself: Los Griegos and Taylor Ranch, shelved as Adult Nonfiction, call number 158.1 Rawat. Three Albuquerque, New Mexico, public library branches have Spanish-language copies of Hear Yourself (Escuchate: encuentra la paz en un mundo ruidoso): Juan Tabo, Los Griegos, and South Broadway, shelved as Adult Nonfiction (International Collection), call number 158.1 Rawat. In the nearby city of Rio Rancho, the public library has an English-language copy of Hear Yourself at the Esther Bone Memorial Library branch, also shelved as Adult Nonfiction, call number 158.1 Rawat. In the New Mexico capital city of Santa Fe, the public library has the German-language eAudiobook of Hear Yourself (Inneren Frieden finden in einer lauten Welt) available through Hoopla. The library also has an English-language eBook summary of Hear Yourself.

Contents:
Get past the noise between your ears; Discover your inner rhythm; Ground yourself in infinite peace; Learn the difference between knowing and believing; Start with you; Choose gratitude; Unburden for rough times; Free yourself through forgiveness; Love in the moment; Cultivate the divine; Become the universal self through kindness; and Practice, practice, practice.

Quotations:
It can be surprising the tough judgments usually open-minded people make about others because they are different. Once, in Argentina, I was introducing a group of people to the techniques of self-knowledge (more on that in chapter 12). One of the facilitators working with me came up and said: “There’s a person here who should not receive Knowledge.” “Why not?” I asked. “Because she has just told me she’s a prostitute,” he said. I replied, “If she is a prostitute and you disapprove, don’t sleep with her. What does that have to do with giving her Knowledge?” Page 224, English-language edition; © Rawat Creations LLC.

For billions of years, we were floating around in the galaxy as dust particles. Then the great universal energy acted upon us, and we were given the opportunity to live this life here on this planet, for a flash of a moment in the long history of time. So, we have been given a vacation from being dust, and that vacation begins when we’re born and ends when we die. Every plant and creature alive are on vacation. And what a wonderful destination we’ve all been brought to. But do we know we are on this fabulous vacation? Are we getting the most from our time? Are we distracted from experiencing this life? Are we savoring all we can of this precious moment–this opportunity to experience a trillion different things before we return to being dust?…We will always be part of matter, but for this short time we have also been blessed with consciousness. We were given the temporary ability to feel and to understand, so the question is this: Are we enjoying our vacation? Pages 255-256, English-language edition; © Rawat Creations LLC.

Book Peace is Possible: Thoughts on Happiness, Success and Relationships for a Deeper Understanding of Life, English-language edition © 2019; 144 pages; also in audiobook; published by Penguin and reviewed here.

Book The Pot with the Hole, Japanese-language edition © 2016; 32 pages; published by Bunya LLC; see details and reviews here.

Book Splitting the Arrow: Understanding the Business of Life, English-language edition © 2015; 100 pages; published by Bunya LLC; available here and here; read free on-line here and here. Spanish-language edition © 2018: Cuando el desierto florece: El libro que hace brotar tu sonrisa interior; published by Aguilar; available here.

Almost a half million of Prem Rawat‘s books had been bought by mid-2024, prior to publication of Breath: Wake up to Life.

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PREM RAWAT: BIOGRAPHY
Peace is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat, paperback English-language edition 2007 © Andrea Cagan; 410 pages; published by Mighty River Press; available here, here, here, and here.

Author’s Note excerpt:
[I]n preparation for this book, I decided to interview those who knew him well, and I met with everyone from his cook to his photographer, from his friends to his lifelong students. I taped conversations, I watched DVDs, and I read his talks that have been meticulously saved for posterity. Finally, after reviewing thousands of pages of interviews and media clippings, watching many of his taped addresses, and speaking to a multitude of people who knew him during different phases of his life, a picture began to emerge.

Doing justice to such a huge life was a daunting task for me. I realized early on that there was no way I could tell his story in its entirety, so I fashioned this book to paint a picture of an extraordinary man in love with life, whose one-pointed dedication to spreading the message of peace — a message his father entrusted to him when Maharaji [Prem Rawat] was eight years old — remains unadulterated and filled with promise. I feel enriched from having written about Maharaji [Prem Rawat], and in the spirit of his teachings, I feel honored to have helped in a small way to articulate his timeless message of peace. — Andrea Cagan, pages xi-xii.

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PREM RAWAT: MUSIC
Using artificial intelligence (AI), Prem Rawat is interpreting traditional bhajans for contemporary listeners. Available on his personal site, in December 2025, these bhajans were Gratitude (00:03:09); Mere Satguru Deyi Btaye (00:04:58); My Friend Showed Me (00:05:34); Oh My My (00:04:46); Tu Sumrin 00:05:36); and Tumev (00:05:18). Lyrics for bhajans with English titles display in English; lyrics for bhajans with Hindi titles display in Hindi.

TimelessToday also offers Prem Rawat‘s bhajan interpretations and those of other artists. In December 2025, these were Aaj Din Ke Main Jaun – Gurinder Kau (00:05:39); Mera Tera Manwa Kaise – Madan Gopal (00:05:41); Apne Piya Ki Diwani – Mangla Saloni (00:06:55); Barsan Lagyo Rang – Madan Gopal (00:06:20); Maya Mein Arujh Gaya Manwa – Mangla Saloni (00:04:20); Sharanagat Pal Kripal Hari – Madan Gopal (00:06:48); Sanwara Mhar Pret – Gurinder Kaur (00:06:48); Udho Tujhe Gyan Saar – Madan Gopal (00:05:19); The Master – Prem Rawat (00:08:52); Always Remembering – Wendy Lewis (00:05:01); and Play This Instrument – Prem Rawat (00:04:27).

For more examples of contemporary renditions of traditional bhajans, go here. For examples of contemporary analogies to traditional bhajans, go here.

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PREM RAWAT: ASPECTS OF EVENTS AND OTHER OUTREACH
TimelessToday links to years of on-line editions of Prem Rawat‘s one-off events (some available free on a rotating basis), of his annual motif events (such those at Amaroo), and free themed excerpts from his events and other outreach such as mass media interviews.

TimelessToday is converting — from analog to digital formats — Prem Rawat‘s events and other outreach and expressions since he began, as a four-year-old, to publicly help spread awareness of the offer of his father, Hans Rām Singh Rawat, generally known by the honorific Shri Hans Ji Maharaj. Though Prem Rawat was the youngest of his father‘s five children (a daughter and four sons), his father formally designated Prem Rawat as his successor and charged him with making his father‘s offer known and the experience available, regardless of life circumstances, to every person worldwide. Prem Rawat has worked to fulfill this charge since his father‘s death in 1966. Prem Rawat‘s presentations are the focus of on line editions of his events and other outreach; occasion- and place-specific information and local audience orientations are edited to a minimum. Prem Rawat annually returns to India to lead a “Hans Jayanti” celebration of his father‘s birth, November 08, 1900.

Prem Rawat‘s online only and in-person events and outreach are announced by TimelessToday (variation here), by Words of Peace Global, and on Prem Rawat‘s personal site, though usually not at the same time nor with the same information.

When first accessing TimelessToday offerings, begin by choosing your preferred language from the drop-down menu in the upper middle portion of the home page. The most up-to-date categories under the “Discover” heading will be in English. Then log in through the drop-down menu in the upper right portion of the home page. TimelessToday places a cookie on your computer specifying what you have watched and where you stopped. You will be returned to that point when you again log in. Log out through the drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the home page. The menu name will have changed to “Account.”

Most in-person events and outreach (except complete Knowledge sessions and reviews) are also broadcast online (“livestreamed”) to TimelessToday subscribers; “premier” subscribers receive video livestreams; “classic” subscribers receive audio livestreams.

On-demand replays of livestreamed and of most non-livestreamed events and outreach, with their simultaneous language translations and with free excerpt “Preview” video clips, are usually released within two days followed, when possible, by on-demand replays with simultaneous translations in other languages, with subtitles to aid non-native English-speaker comprehension, and with closed captions for the hearing-impaired.

TimelessToday sometimes delays access by subscribers to all or part of an event series such as Amaroo, instead selling immediate access to a “bundle” of events with an “until” or an “at least until” deadline. TimelessToday subscriber access begins after the deadline. The deadline may be extended, and the only notification will be the date change in the original text. So if you are a subscriber but did not purchase a bundle access, always check the original text for bundle access deadline extensions. Conversely, if you purchased a bundle access, the extension would allow you to “re-view” or finish viewing the bundled events beyond the original deadline.

When in-person event and outreach audiences consist primarily of Hindi speakers, Prem Rawat speaks in Hindi. He speaks in English at other in-person events and outreach and in on-line only events and outreach. Simultaneous translation, usually in several languages, is provided at in-person events and outreach and to livestream subscribers at in-person and in online only events and outreach.

Livestreams of Intelligent Existence focus sessions, collectively called “Understanding More,” have not been included in TimelessToday subscriptions (for example, registration for each 2023 focus session was USD 65.00 plus any local tax). Now many can be viewed with a “premier” subscription or listened to with a “classic” subscription, such as this April 06, 2022, Ranchi, India, focus session.

For an overview of time zones in Mexico, go here. For an overview of time zones in the US, go here.  Event and other outreach dates are given for the Lifelihood.Zone, so may vary by one day from the official date, for example, those in India will likely be a day “later” than in Lifelihood.Zone. Times will be given for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juárez binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juárez binational metropolitan area, New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora; and Southern California and Baja California. Find times in non-Lifelihood Zone places or time zones here.

In Mexico, daylight saving time (DST) (horario de verano [“summer schedule”]) is observed only by the state of Baja California (which observes Pacific Daylight Time [PDT]) and by some Lifelihood.Zone municipalities synchronizing times with their adjacent US LIfelihood.Zone states; examples: Matamoros, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; Anáhuac (municipality), Nuevo León; the Del Rio, Texas – Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, binational metropolitan area; Piedras Negras, Coahuila; Ojinaga, Chihuahua; and the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area. No border municipality in the state of Sonora observes DST because Arizona, Sonora‘s adjacent US Lifelihood.Zone state, observes DST only in its northeastern corner.

To attend events and other outreach in person, information will be available at TimelessToday, Words of Peace Global (especially ticketing), Prem Rawat‘s personal site and, especially for Hindi speakers, at Raj Vidya Kender.

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PREM RAWAT: OUTREACH SPECTRUM
TimelessToday produces and distributes Prem Rawat‘s outreach broadcasts, events, and messages, including free content, through
Prem Rawat‘s personal site,
Apple,
Facebook,
Instagram,
news articles,
podcasts,
Spotify,
WhatsApp, and
YouTube here and here.

Intelligent Existence (IE), which Prem Rawat calls the science of understanding, is his live and online platform for training and education, based on three guiding principles: knowing oneself, living life consciously, and having a heart filled with gratitude.

Peace Education and Knowledge (PEAK) is a self-paced, topics-based, nine-chapter course: Introduction; Who Are You? Clarity and Beliefs; Choice; Understanding: Gratitude; Peace; Hope; and Self-Knowledge. In the ninth chapter, Prem Rawat conducts a Knowledge session on four techniques to help know oneself. PEAK is currently available in Chinese Traditional, Chinese Modern, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Slovenian, Spanish, and Thai. For more details, go here.

The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) offers a series of free video-based workshops through the Peace Education Program (PEP). For an overview of PEP activities worldwide, go here..

IE, PEAK, and PEP app for Android mobile devices. The original app has been updated.

IE, PEAK, and PEP app for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. The original app has been updated.

Prem Rawat has expanded the “Food for People” (FFP) program to Cape Flats, on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. The opening ceremony included a historical overview of FFP by Prem Rawat. The FFP has provided more than seven million meals, potable water, and educational opportunities to disadvantaged children and the elderly in India, Nepal, and Ghana. Results have included improved health, higher school attendance and achievement, lower crime, new career opportunities, and regional economic growth.

April 06, 2025, Prem Rawat conducted the first of his “MY Connection: Train the Trainer” series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for those who have been taught the techniques of Self-Knowledge. Due to limited venue capacity, attendance was restricted to Malaysia residents. Intelligent Existence livestream of the training was USD 45.00 (convert to other currencies here or here). Simultaneous translation of the livestream was in French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. See detailed FAQ here. The livestream began 30 minutes before the training with a review of Prem Rawat‘s recent activities. Purchase the livestream replay here.

Prem Rawat in 2024 conducted ten “Understanding More” focus sessions for those practicing the techniques of Self-Knowledge. Watch previews and purchase unlimited viewing of individual sessions (US $20 plus taxes) or of the full series (US $125 plus taxes) here (click the Purchase/Watch buttons to see available language translations for each session). FAQ and answers are here. View and download a free compilation of notes from all of the focus sessions here.

A YouTube replay of a two-hour March 01, 2025, webinar, “Celebrating Milestones: Peace Education Program (PEP) Success Around the World” (itself a replay of a Friday, February 14, 2025, webinar with different registrant questions and answers), features 1) a video of Prem Rawat’s October 17, 2024, event launching the program in Japan, 2) a conversation between PEP director Willow Baker and Hisashi Okamoto, 3) celebrating the milestone of more than 500,000 participants in more than 80 countries, 4) showing appreciation for supporters, and 5) highlighting ways to get involved. Willow Baker and other PEP representatives answer webinar registrant questions (emailed in advance). The webinar is in English. The webinar replay includes subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, German and Greek. More replay languages are expected.

“A Civilized Nation, A Beacon for the Whole World” (00:00:39). “You have the power.”

December 01, 2024, a free 75-minute webinar premier, “Brightening Lives: Prem Rawat at Dwaynamics Community Centre in London.” Bereaved families, community activists, artists and at-risk youth attended to help address problems with knife crime and other violence in London. Prem Rawat offered the Peace Education Program (PEP) as part of the solution. The webinar launched a “Brightening Lives” fundraising goal by The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) to raise $200,000 by December 31, 2024, to support PEP and other TPRF humanitarian activities. The webinar was in English. Replay subtitles are in Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, German, and other languages.

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PREM RAWAT: PENDING EVENTS AND OTHER OUTREACH
New events and other outreach will resume in January 2026. Ongoing other outreach remains uninterrupted. For Prem Rawat‘s New Year’s message, go here.

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PREM RAWAT: REPLAYS OF EVENTS AND OTHER OUTREACH
November 26, 2025, “Experience: Beyond Words (00:56:00),” Hyderabad, India, at 5:00 p m Indian Standard Time (IST). Lifelihood.Zone date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025; times: 5:30 a m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; 4:30 a m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 3:30 a m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California. Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. Prem Rawat spoke in Hindi. Livestream simultaneous translation was in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Tamil.

November 23, 2025, “Connect to Clarity (02:11:17),” Intelligent Existence training, Hyderabad, India, 11:00 a m Indian Standard Time (IST) in the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC). Lifelihood.Zone date: Saturday, November 22, 2025; times: 9:30 p m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California; 10:30 p m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 11:30 p m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. Ticket prices were 25,000 Indian rupees (Platinum Pass): about 284 US dollars and about 5,218 Mexican pesos; 10,000 Indian rupees (Gold Circle): about 114 US dollars and about 2,088 Mexican pesos; and 5,000 Indian rupees: about 57 US dollars and about 1,044 Mexican pesos. Tickets were available here. Prem Rawat spoke in English. Translation on livestream was in French, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil. Livestream access (exactly 45 US dollars and about 827 Mexican pesos) was purchased here. To convert these prices into other currencies, go here. The livestream replay will be available for six months. For more details, go here.

November 16, 2025, “Heart of the Connection (02:09:30),” Intelligent Existence training, New Delhi, India, 11:00 a m Indian Standard Time (IST) in the Yashobhoomi International Convention & Expo Centre. Lifelihood.Zone date: Saturday, November 15, 2025; times: 9:30 p m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California; 10:30 p m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 11:30 p m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. NOTE: In-person attendance was sold out. Ticket prices were 25,000 Indian rupees (Platinum Pass): about 284 US dollars and about 5,218 Mexican pesos; 10,000 Indian rupees (Gold Circle): about 114 US dollars and about 2,088 Mexican pesos; and 5,000 Indian rupees: about 57 US dollars and about 1,044 Mexican pesos. Prem Rawat spoke in Hindi. Translation at the training was in English. Translation on livestream will be in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil. To purchase livestream access (exactly 45 US dollars and about 827 Mexican pesos), go here. To convert these prices into other currencies, go here. The livestream replay will be available for six months. For more details, go here.

Saturday, November 08, 2025, and Sunday, November 09, 2025, at the Raj Vidya Kender venue, Delhi, India, Prem Rawat conducted four sessions of a Hans Jayanti celebration of the 125th anniversary of his father‘s birth, November 08, 1900. Lifelihood.Zone dates: Friday, November 07, 2025, and Saturday, November 08, 2025. Prem Rawat spoke in Hindi at the four sessions, with livestream simultaneous translation of the two morning sessions for TimelessToday subscribers in English, Spanish, and Tamil and of the two evening sessions in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Tamil. Livestream replays: session 1 (01:03:42) is available here; session 2 (01:21:01) is available here; session 3 (00:56:58) is available here; and session 4 (00:43:52) is available here. There are no deadlines for viewing the livestream replays.

October 18, 2025, “Feel Your Thirst (01:04:21),” Colombo, Sri Lanka, at 11:30 a m Indian Standard Time (IST) in Temple Trees Main Hall. Lifelihood.Zone dates: Friday, October 17, 2025, and Saturday, October 18, 2025; times: 11:00 p m (October 17, 2025) for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California; midnight (October 17, 2025) for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 1:00 a m (October 18, 2025) for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. Ticket prices (plus ticketing agency fees): 40,500 Sri Lanka Rupees (about 134 US Dollars and about 2,471 Mexican Pesos), 27,500 Sri Lanka Rupees (about 91 US Dollars and about 1,678 Mexican Pesos), 7,500 Sri Lanka Rupees (about 25 US Dollars and about 458 Mexican Pesos), and 2,000 Sri Lanka Rupees (about seven US Dollars and about 122 Mexican Pesos). To convert these prices into other currencies, go here. Prem Rawat spoke in English. Translation at the event and on livestream was in Tamil and in Sinhala; other languages may have been added at the event and available on livestream. Support was given to those using wheelchairs, and headsets with a channel in enhanced English was available for the hard of hearing. For more details, go here.

October 12, 2025, “The Good Within (01:01:50),” Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at 4:00 p m Malaysian Standard Time (MST) in the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) Level 3 Ballroom. For directions and parking and public transportation information, go here. Lifelihood.Zone date: Sunday, October 12, 2025; times: 3:00 a m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; 2:00 a m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 1:00 a m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California. Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. Ticket prices (plus ticketing agency fees): 700 Malaysian Ringgit (about 166 US Dollars and about 3,046 Mexican Pesos ), 250 Malaysian Ringgit (about 59 US Dollars and about 1,088 Mexican Pesos), 50 Malaysian Ringgit (about 12 US Dollars and about 218 Mexican Pesos), and 10 Malaysian Ringgit (about 2 US Dollars and about 44 Mexican Pesos). To convert these prices into other currencies, go here. Ticket sales began October 08, 2025, here. Prem Rawat spoke in English. Translation at the event and on livestream was in Hindi, Mandarin, and Tamil; other languages may be added. Support was given to those using wheelchairs, and headsets with a channel in enhanced English were available for the hard of hearing. For more details, go here.

Monday, September 08, 2025, through Friday, September 12, 2025, Prem Rawat spoke at Ivory’s Rock, Amaroo (near Brisbane), Australia, during a five-day series of events for those who have been taught his techniques of Self-Knowledge. Smart Card credentials were required to attend the Amaroo events. Detailed registration information here. Detailed volunteer information here. Detailed on-site accommodation information here. Overviews of translation, visa, and other information here. See information updates here. Retail shops, food stores, first aid, paramedics, an ambulance service, ATMs, an information booth, lost and found, and notice boards with event schedules and announcements were in the Pavilion. During the Amaroo events, on September 10, 2025, Prem Rawat conducted a one-hour livestreamed “AUSpicious Connection” (Awaken. Understand. Savour.) Knowledge training session, sponsored by Intelligent Existence. Purchase access to a Video-on-Request (VOR) bundle of all sessions (mornings and afternoons) and the replay of the “AUSpicious Connection” training session here ($179 USD plus applicable tax); India and Nepal regional pricing is offered. The VOR will be available until midnight Pacific Standard Time (PST), December 19, 2025. Prem Rawat spoke in English at the Amaroo events and in the Knowledge training session. Translation at the events, in the training session, and in the replays are in French, Hindi, Italian, Spanish and Tamil. More languages likely will be added. For more information, go here.

August 17, 2025, “A Solitary Passenger (01:00:00),” San José, Costa Rica, at the Centro de Convenciones de Costa Rica at 11:30 a m Central Standard Time (CST). Lifelihood.Zone date: August 17, 2025; times: 12:30 p m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; 11:30 p m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 12:30 p m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California. Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. Ticket prices (plus processing fees): 90 US dollars (about 1,674 Mexican pesos), 45 US dollars (about 837 Mexican pesos), and 20 US dollars (about 372 Mexican pesos). The event was co-hosted by Words of Peace Global (WOPG) and The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF). The event was for those having been taught or are preparing to be taught the techniques of Self-Knowledge. Those attending were asked to bring their Smart Cards.The event was in English, with translation at the event and for livestream subscribers in Spanish and Portuguese. Support was given those using wheelchairs, and a channel in enhanced English was available for the hard-of-hearing. For more information, go here.

August 16, 2025, in San José, Costa Rica, at the Centro de Convenciones de Costa Rica, Prem Rawat, with Words of Peace Global (WOPG) and The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF), expanded the Peace Education Program (PEP) in Latin America. Prem Rawat presented his latest book, Breath (for book information in Spanish, go here), and signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with government representatives. The agreements mark TPRF’s commitment to support three organizations’ implementation of PEP: 1) La Fundación Liquidámbar, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, developing projects in education, culture, and the environment. La Fundación implements PEP with staff and in prisons through the National Penitentiary Institute allowing those incarcerated to be trained as facilitators, multiplying the program’s impact in the correctional system; 2) Unbound, in Heredia, Costa Rica, serves youth, elderly populations, mothers, heads of households, students, and families from marginalized backgrounds. PEP has been conducted for Unbound staff; and 3) La Asociación Una Posibilidad, an NGO based in Medellin, Colombia, created to support TPRF programs. In 2024, La Asociación started a pilot program to conduct PEP in the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario [INPEC]), resulting in more than 1,000 program participants, including those incarcerated and members of INPEC’s Custody and Surveillance Corps (Cuerpo de Custodia y Vigilancia). La Asociación intends to sign an agreement in with INPEC, enabling PEP to be implemented in all 125 of Colombia‘s prisons. The San José event was in English, with translation at the event in Spanish and Portuguese. For more information, go here.

August 03, 2025, “Ruler of Your House (01:03:00),” Boston, Massachusetts, at The Westin Copley Place at 4:00 p m Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Lifelihood.Zone date: August 03, 2025; times: 3:00 p m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; 2:00 p m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 1:00 p m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California. Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. For directions and public transportation information, go here (scroll to Our Location). Ticket prices (plus ticketing agency fees): 150 US dollars (about 2,797 Mexican pesos), 90 US dollars (about 1,678 Mexican pesos), and 50 US dollars (about 932 Mexican pesos). Convert to other currencies here. Ticket sales began July 25 here. Prem Rawat spoke in English. Translation at the event and on livestream may be in several languages. Support was given those using wheelchairs, and a channel in enhanced English was available for the hard-of-hearing. For more information, go here.

August 02, 2025, “The Quenched Thirst (01:02:20),” Montreal, Canada, in the Montreal Airport Marriott In-Terminal Hotel at 3:00 p m Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). For more information, go here.

July 31, 2025, “Guru Puja 2025 (01:10:19),” 6:00 a m India Standard Time (IST). Lifelihood.Zone date: July 30, 2025; times: 7:30 p m for Texas (except for the El Paso, Texas – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area), Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua; 6:30 p m for the El Paso, Texas, – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; New Mexico, and Sonora; and 5:30 p m for Arizona, Southern California and Baja California. Find times in non-Lifelihood.Zone places or time zones here. The presentation was free (no TimelessToday subscription required) and will be permanently available. Prem Rawat spoke In Hindi. Simultaneous translation was in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and other languages.

July 28, 2025, “From Stress to Strength: Peace Education to Enhance Wellbeing“; 267 Indian university students and professors participated in the one-hour online Peace Education Program master class. SWAYAM Plus, by India’s Ministry of Education, provides educational courses to university and college professors, employees, and students. SWAYAM Plus also offers the complete Peace Education Program.

July 27, 2025, “What is Shaping You? (01:00:35),” Dublin, Ireland, at The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) at 4:00 p m Irish Summer Time (IST). For more information, go here.

July 20, 2025, “Involuntary Learning (01:12:51),” London, United Kingdom (UK) at the InterContinental London – The O2 at 4:00 p m British Summer Time (BST). For more information, go here.

July 12, 2025, “A Time to Connect,” a one-hour Intelligent Existence (IE) training in Munich, Germany, at The Westin Grand Munich (Marriott International, Inc) at 2:00 p m Central European Summer Time (CEST). For more information, go here.

July 08, 2025, “Practice Life (01:02:04),” Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4:00 p m Central European Summer Time (CEST) in Cankarjev dom (Cultural and Congress Center), Linhart Hall. For more information, go here.

July 05, 2025, “Bow to the Breath (01:31:54),” Bologna, Italy, at 6:00 p m Central European Summer Time (CEST) in the Palazzo dei Congressi EuropAuditorium (Bologna Congress Center). For more information, go here.

June 29, 2025, “The Silence in You (01:05:49},” Barcelona, Spain, 6:00 p m Central European Summer Time (CEST) in the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya (Melia Hotels International). For more information, go here.

June 14, 2025, “Love the Most Lovable (01:06:36),” Toronto, Canada, 4:00 p m, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) in The Westin Harbour Castle (Marriott). For more information, go here.

June 08, 2025, “Discover Your Forever (01:03:01),” Miami, Florida, 4:00 p m Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), at the Hilton Diplomat Beach Resort (between Miami and Fort Lauderdale in Hollywood, Florida). For more information, go here.

June 01, 2025, “What is Right? (01:10:59),” Los Angeles, California, Warner Center Marriott, Woodland Hills. For more information, go here.

June 01, 2025, The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) premiered a free video of a meeting in 2024 between Prem Rawat and participants in the TPRF Peace Education Program at a penitentiary in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The video launched a TPRF fundraising effort, “Giving for Prosperity (en Español aqui),” to raise $200,000 by June 30, 2025, to support Prem Rawat’s humanitarian work. The video was shown on Zoom in English and in Spanish. Replay of the Zoom video has subtitles in French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Altogether, 2,382 gave and surpassed the $200,000 goal, raising $244,104. During the appeal, TPRF released a series of new videos showing how the giving is fostering prosperity—from nourishing the hungry to nurturing peace. See all of the videos here.

May 15, 2025, “Human Behind the Mask (01:11:23),” Kyoto City Ukyo Fureai Bunka Kaikan Hall, Kyoto, Japan.

April 26, 2025, “Know the Value (01:02:12),” Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

April 22, 2025, “Eyes to Recognize (01:17:09),” Kathmandu, Nepal. For another visual overview of Nepal with Hindi voice-over, go here.

April 18, 2025, “The PIN Code of Life (00:50:38),” Bhairahawa (now Siddharthanagar), Nepal. For more information, go here.

April 13, 2025, “Baisakhi Celebration (01:20:36),” Delhi, India. Baisakhi or Vaisakhi is a traditional Indian harvest celebration.

March 08, 2025, “The True Color (01:26:04),” Dehradun, India. For more information, go here.

March 01, 2025, “Connected to the Breath (01:46:28),” Mirzapur, India. Prem Rawat and Indian author Vipul Rikhi spoke in an event organized by local charity Raj Vidya Kender in collaboration with Words of Peace Global. Prem Rawat first read excerpts in English from his most recent book, “Breath: Wake Up to Life” (published by Macmillan), then in Hindi (with translation in English for livestream subscribers), from “Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in a World, (published by HarperCollins India). Vipul Rikhi read selections from his book “Drunk on Love: A Poetic Exploration of Kabir’s Work,” published by HarperCollins India. The official audience of 133,234 surpassed the existing Guinness world record by more than 112,000. Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling and 2 Canadian authors previously held the record of 20,264.

February 23, 2025, “Good vs Pleasant (01:02:41),” Raipur, India. For a free “Preview” (00:01:55),” go here. For more information, go here.

February 08, 2025, “Close Your Eyes and See (01:06:11),” Barcelona, Spain, at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya. For more information, go here.

January 28, 2025, “Breath: Wake Up to Life (01:15:00),” New York City, US, at the Marriott Marquis hotel (see “Getting Here” section for city arrival at LaGuardia, John F Kennedy International, and Newark Liberty International airports and hotel arrival using public transportation). For more information, go here.

January 19, 2025, “Find the Reason for Joy (01:04:00),” Hilton Diplomat Beach Resort (Grand Ballroom) in Hollywood, Florida (between Miami and Fort Lauderdale), US. For more information, go here.

January 11, 2025, “If You Only Knew (01:08:00),” Warner Center Marriott, Woodland Hills, Greater Los Angeles, California. For more information, go here.

“Happy New Year 2025 from Prem Rawat (00:21:18).” Subtitles (choose on CC): Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), German; Greek, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Tamil.

December 08, 2024, “By Gratitude, Not Greed (01:24:38),” Barcelona, Spain, at an early birthday celebration (his birthday is December 10). for more information, go here and here.

December 04, 2024, “Feed this Human Being Peace (01:04:51),” Cotonou, Benin. Attendance was limited to residents of countries in western Africa. Prem Rawat spoke in English. A livestream was broadcast in local languages for Cotonou inmates following the Peace Education Program, for people unable to travel to the event from remote communities, and for residents of the Ivory Coast and Ghana. For more information, go here.

November 30, 2024, Prem Rawat spoke in Johannesburg, South Africa, at Connection 24: Accepting the Experience of the Self. Attendance was limited to residents of South Africa. The opening session was livestreamed and replayed. The cost was $45.00.The event was focused for those who practice Knowledge, but everyone can benefit, including those under the age of eighteen (the minimum age required to learn the Knowledge techniques). For more information go here.

August 14, 2021, “Sweeter Than Honey (01:12:08),” Atlanta, Georgia, US.

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PREM RAWAT: ROTATING REPLAYS OF ARCHIVED EVENTS AND OTHER OUTREACH
November 23, 2024, “Kindness Begins with You (00:56:34).” Toamasina, Madagascar.

February 18, 2023, “Immersed (01:05:57).” Westlake Village, California. Free preview excerpt (Hindi only) here (00:01:01).

September 12, 2020, “Purpose Built (01:00:24),”
(episode 9 of the Being Human series), Charlwood, Surrey, United Kingdom. Free preview here (00:01:03).

August 20, 2019, [location not given], “The Season of Peace (00:58:22).” Free print excerpt.

May 26, 2019, Barcelona, Spain, “Project: Gratitude (01:16:55).” Free preview here (00:01:00).

May 24, 2019, Barcelona, Spain, Prem Rawat Radio, Reflections #2 (Timeless Treasures from the Vault series). FAQ here. Excerpt here. Note: Unlimited viewing of Reflections #2,  on the app and on the TimelessToday site, ended August 31, 2025. Convert the $79.00 USD cost of Reflections #2 to your currency here.

May 12, 2019, Miami, Florida, US, “Project: Inward (01:04:29).” Free preview here (00:00:38).

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PREM RAWAT: PARTICIPATION CENTERS WORLDWIDE
See the Global Map at the bottom of the i4joy home page for centers focused on making Prem Rawat‘s offer available regionally through events and other outreach. For information on centers in the US, go here. For information on centers in Mexico, go here.

i4joy also contains brief descriptions of and links to these sites: Grow with Knowledge
Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World
Intelligent Existence
Life’s Essentials Podcast (Apple)
Life’s Essentials Podcast (Spotify)
Peace Education and Knowledge (PEAK)
Prem Rawat
Prem Rawat YouTube Channel
Raj Vidya Kender (RVK)
Raj Vidya Kender (RVK) YouTube Channel
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF)
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) YouTube Channel
TimelessToday
Words of Peace Global (WOPG)

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA GUIDANCE
For guidance in approaching mass media communicators for coverage of Prem Rawat, go here. Mass communicators can learn more and make coverage arrangements with Prem Rawat through press@premrawat.com. For a discussion of mass media and mass communications, go here.

US
Newspapers: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California
Radio Stations: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California
Television Stations: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California

MEXICO
Newspapers: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California
Radio Stations: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California
Television Stations: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE MARGINS
Markers on the indeterminate borders of Lifelihood.Zone include, northeast to southeast: Houston, Texas, US, to the Brownsville, Texas — Matamoros, Tamaulipas, binational metropolitan area; southeast to southwest: Matamoros to Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; across the middle of Coahuila state to Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua), Chihuahua; to Hermosillo, Sonora; and Baja California; northeast to northwest: Houston, Texas; to San Antonio, Texas; to the El Paso, Texas — Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area; all of New Mexico; the Four Corners southwest to Flagstaff, Arizona, US; and west to Kingman, Arizona, and Greater Los Angeles, California, US; northwest to southwest: Greater Los Angeles to the San Diego, California – Tijuana, Baja California, binational metropolitan area; and Baja California. The US state of New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua in Mexico are centrally located, respectively, in the northern and southern tiers of Lifelihood.Zone.

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE TRANSITS

LIFELIHOOD.ZONE EAST-WEST HIGHWAYS
Mexico
Across the tier of Lifelihood.Zone states in Mexico, Highway 2 closely follows the border (Rio Bravo del Norte/Rio Grande) northwest from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, through Nuevo León into Coahuila, ending at Ciudad Acuña, near the eastern terminus of Big Bend. Highway 2 resumes along the border from a few miles southeast of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, through Sonora and on to Tijuana, Baja California.

If cross-border highway connections are needed only from Lifelihood.Zone states in northwestern Mexico , take interstate-level highway 40 from Matamoros to Torreon, Coahuila, changing to interstate-level highway 49 northwest through Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua), Chihuahua, where it becomes interstate-level highway 45 north to the El Paso, Texas — Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area. Highway 2 then drops away from the border, rejoining it upon entering Sonora to Naco, then again drops away from the border to join interstate-level highway 15 north to the Nogales, Sonora —  Nogales, Arizona, binational metropolitan area. Highway 2 rejoins the border in Sonora at Sonoyta and continues along the border through Baja California to the San Diego, California — Tijuana, Baja California binational metropolitan area.

US
Across the tier of Lifelihood.Zone states in the US, Interstate Highway I-10 connects Houston, Texas, west to San Antonio, Texas, and on to the El Paso, Texas — Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, binational metropolitan area, where it connects with I-25 north to Las Cruces, New Mexico.

I-25 connects at Las Cruces with I-10 west to Tucson, Arizona, where it turns northwest to Casa Grande, Arizona (between Tucson, Arizona, and Phoenix, Arizona), where it connects with I-8 west to Yuma, Arizona, and on to the San Diego, California — Tijuana, Baja California, binational metropolitan area.

I-10 continues northwest from Casa Grande, Arizona, to Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, then west to Palm Springs, California, and Greater Los Angeles, California.

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAYS
Texas – Tamaulipas – Texas
Brownsville-Veterans Port of Entry, Interstate Highway 69E (I-69E), US Route 77 (US 77), and US Highway 83 (US 83)., Brownsville, Texas; Matamoros Port of Entry (Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates), Avenida 5 de Mayo, Matamoros, Tamaulipas. For more Texas-Tamaulipas-Texas border ground crossings and more details, go here.

Texas – Nuevo León – Texas
Laredo–Colombia Solidarity Port of Entry, State Highway 255 (SH 255), Laredo, Texas; Colombia Port of Entry, Nuevo León State Highway 1 Spur (NL 1), Colombia, Nuevo León. This is the only Texas-Nuevo León-Texas port of entry.

Texas – Coahuila – Texas
Eagle Pass II, Texas, Camino Real Port of Entry, South Adams; Piedras Negras 2 Port of Entry, Libramiento Sur, Piedras Negras, Coahuilla. For more Texas-Coahuila-Texas border ground crossings and more details, go here.

Texas – Chihuahua – Texas
El Paso, Texas, Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) Port of Entry, Interstate Highway 110 (I-110); Cordova Port of Entry, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. For more Texas-Chihuahua-Texas border ground crossings and more details, go here.

New Mexico – Chihuahua – New Mexico
Santa Teresa, New Mexico, Port of Entry, State Road 136 (NM 136); San Jerónimo, Chihuahua, Port of Entry, Carretera Samalayuca el Oasis. For more New Mexico-Chihuahua-New Mexico border ground crossings and more details, go here.

Arizona – Sonora – Arizona
Nogales-Grand Avenue, Arizona, Port of Entry, Interstate Highway 19 (I-19); Nogales, Sonora, Port of Entry, Carretera Federal 15 (Fed. 15). For more Arizona-Sonora-Arizona border ground crossings and more details, go here.

California – Baja California – California
San Ysidro, California, Port of Entry, Interstate Highway 5 (I-5); Tijuana, Baja California, Port of Entry, El Chaparral, Carretera Federal 1 (Fed. 1). For more California-Baja California-California border ground crossings and more details, go here.

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE AIRPORTS IN MEXICO
The Lifelihood.Zone airports detailed below appear to offer the most amenities for private aviation pilots such as Prem Rawat and for transiting commercial passengers.

See more Lifelihood.Zone airports in Mexico by state: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California.

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Tamaulipas
Lifelihood.Zone destinations from Matamoros International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional de Matamoros) include the Brownsville, Texas – Matamoros, Tamaulipas, binational metropolitan area, northern Tamaulipas, and southern Texas. Matamoros International is 8 meters (26 feet) above mean sea level, with a single asphalt runway (designated 15/33), measuring 2,300 meters (7,500 feet). The commercial aviation apron spans 15,360 square meters (165,300 square feet), with three parking positions for narrow-body aircraft and additional stands for general aviation. Matamoros International‘s proximity to the US border makes it attractive for cross-border travelers to cities in Mexico. However, due to Mexico‘s high transportation taxes for international flights, Mexican residents traveling to US destinations typically cross the border to use the Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport.

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Nuevo León
Lifelihood.Zone binational metropolitan area destinations from Monterrey International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional de Monterrey), Apodaca, include Brownsville, Texas — Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Eagle Pass, Texas — Piedras Negras, Coahuila; El Paso, Texas — Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; and San Diego, California — Tijuana, Baja California. Other Mexico border destinations from Monterrey International include Mexicali, Baja California. US Lifelihood.Zone destinations from Monterrey International include Laredo, Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport), Austin, and San Antonio, Texas; Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona; and Los Angeles, California. Monterrey International is 390 meters (1,280 feet) above mean sea level and has two runways. The main runway (designated 11/29) is asphalt, 3,000 by 45 meters (9,843 by 148 feet), with an Instrument Landing System (ILS), VHF omnidirectional radio range (VOR), and Distance Measuring Equipment (DME). A second runway (designated 16/34) is asphalt, 1,800 by 30 meters (5,906 by 98 feet). Monterrey International is 28 kilometers (17 miles) northeast of downtown Monterrey. Travel time by car is typically 30 minutes, but can extend to 60 minutes during rush hours.

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Coahuila
Piedras Negras International Airport (See also Aeropuerto Internacional de Piedras Negras), Piedras Negras, Coahuila, serves domestic flights for the Eagle Pass, — Piedras Negras binational metropolitan area, northern Coahuila and southern Texas. Piedras Negras International is 275 meters (902 feet) above mean sea level and has a single asphalt runway (designated 05/23), 2,030 by 30 meters (6,660 by 98 feet). The commercial aviation apron has three parking positions for narrow-body aircraft and additional stands for general aviation. Due to Mexico‘s high transportation taxes for international flights , Mexican residents traveling to US destinations usually cross the border to use the San Antonio International Airport.

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Chihuahua
Chihuahua International Airport (See also Aeropuerto Internacional de Chihuahua), is 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) northeast of mid-Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua), at an elevation: 4,360 feet (1,330 meters) above mean sea level. Chihuahua International has three asphalt-surfaced runways: The primary runway (designated 18L/36R) is 8,530 feet by 148 feet (2,600 meters by 45 meters). Runway designated 04/22 is 3,609 feet by 98 feet (1,100 meters by 30 meters). Runway designated 18R/36L is 7,874 feet by 66 feet (2,400 meters by 20 meters). There are two general aviation aprons, called the north and south aprons, to accommodate fixed-wing aircraft and heliports for private aviation, with additional parking at the cargo terminal for narrow-body aircraft. The only US commercial airport close to Lifelihood.Zone served by Chuhuahua International is Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW), Texas, .

Ciudad Juárez International Airport (See also Aeropuerto Internacional de Ciudad Juárez) is 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) southeast of the Ciudad Juárez city center at an elevation of 3,900 feet (1,190 meters) above mean sea level. Ciudad Juárez International has two runways. The primary runway (designated 03/21) is 8,900 feet (2,700 meters) long. Runway 15/33 is 5,740 feet (1,750 meters) long and is primarily used for smaller aircraft. The apron features seven stands capable of accommodating narrow-body aircraft. The terminal has seven aircraft gates, four on a lower level and three on an upper level, and a dedicated general aviation terminal supporting tourism, flight training, executive aviation, and general aviation. The airport’s proximity to the US makes it an attractive choice for US travelers transiting to cities in Mexico. However, due to its proximity to El Paso and the high transportation taxes for international flights in Mexico, the airport only serves Mexican destinations. Mexican residents traveling to US destinations typically use the El Paso International Airport.

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Sonora
Hermosillo International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional de Hermosillo), Hermosillo, is 627 feet (191 meters) above mean sea level and has a single asphalt runway (designated 05/23) 7,500 feet (2,300 meters) long. The commercial apron can accommodate 12 narrow-body aircraft, a general aviation apron for fixed-wing aircraft, and two heliports for private and occasional third-level (level 3) commercial aviation use (a US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) designation where high traffic density or unfavorable weather causes significant flight delays and infrastructure improvements are not feasible in the near-term); Hermosillo International occasionally serves as the third-level (level 3) primary alternate airport for flights to Tijuana International. Hermosillo International also hosts includes a dedicated general aviation terminal. Lifelihood.Zone airports in Mexico served from Hermosillo International include Monterrey International, Nuevo León; Chihuahua International, Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua); Ciudad Juárez International, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; Mexicali International Airport, Mexicali, Baja California; and Tijuana International Airport, Tijuana, Baja California. One US Lifelihood.Zone airport is served by Hermosillo International: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, Arizona.

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Baja California
 Tijuana International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional de Tijuana), Tijuana, is 489 feet (149 meters) above mean sea level, 3.1 miles (five kilometers) northeast of downtown Tijuana and can be directly accessed from the US through the unique Cross Border Xpress (CBX) terminal in San Diego, California, which allows passengers with a boarding pass to walk across a bridge over the border. Tijuana International has a single runway (designated 09/27) 9,800 feet (3,000 meters) long, a parallel taxiway, and an apron with 23 parking positions, primarily for narrow-body commercial aircraft, surrounding two terminal pier buildings. An adjacent general aviation apron offers stands for fixed-wing aircraft and heliports for private aviation, with hangars and maintenance facilities. The top floor of the terminal houses international arrivals corridors and the entrance vestibule for passengers coming from the Cross Border Xpress (CBX) terminal. The vestibule leads to a Mexican immigration and customs facility and a check-in area for international passengers. The General Aviation Building (GAB) is used for general/non-commercial aviation and private jets. In US Lifelihood.Zone states, Tijuana International serves Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. In Mexico Lifelihood.Zone states, Tijuana International serves Monterrey International, Nuevo León; Torreón International, Coahuila; Chihuahua International, Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua); Ciudad Juárez International, Chihuahua; Hermosillo International, Sonora; and Puerto Peñasco International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Puerto Peñasco); officially Mar de Cortés International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional Mar de Cortés), Puerto Peñasco, Sonora.

Mexicali International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional de Mexicali), Mexicali, is 12.43 miles (20 kilometers) east of Mexicali at an elevation of 75 feet (23 meters) above mean sea level. Mexicali International has one concrete runway (designated 10/28) 8,500 feet (2,600 meters) long and 148 feet (45 meters) wide for narrow-body aircraft. There are two aprons: one for commercial aviation, constructed with hydraulic cement and equipped with five parking positions, and an asphalt runway for general aviation with three helipads and 24 parking positions for small aircraft. Mexicali International also includes a dedicated general aviation terminal. Lifelihood.Zone Mexico airports served by Mexicali International include Hermosillo International, Sonora; and Monterrey International, Nuevo León.

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE AIRPORTS IN THE US
The Lifelihood.Zone airports detailed below appear to offer the most amenities for private aviation pilots such as Prem Rawat and for transiting commercial passengers.

See more Lifelihood.Zone airports in the US by state: Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California.

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Texas
Valley International (here and here), Harlingen, is 36 feet (11 meters) above mean sea level and has three asphalt runways: 18R/36L is 9,400 by 150 feet (2,865 by 46 meters); 13/31 is 7,257 by 150 feet (2,212 by 46 meters); and 18L/36R is 5,950 by 150 feet (1,814 by 46 meters). Lifelihood.Zone US destinations include Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P Hobby Airport, Houston, by United Express and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport by Southwest Airlines. The sole Lifelihood Zone destination in Mexico is Monterrey International Airport (see also Aeropuerto Internacional de Monterrey), Apodaca, Nuevo León. Valley International (here and here) is served by Southwest Airlines, United Airlines (via United Express), American Airlines (via American Eagle), Delta Air Lines (seasonally), Delta Connection, and Sun Country Airlines (seasonally). See detailed Valley International (here and here) pilot information at AirNav.com.

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San Antonio International (SAT) (here and here), San Antonio, is about eight miles (13 kilometers) north of the central business district at an elevation of 809 feet (247 meters) above mean sea level and has three runways and 27 gates serving 14 airlines flying non-stop to 45 destinations in the US and Mexico. In 2028, San Antonio International (here and here) is scheduled to complete an upgrade to the airfield and Terminal A with a wider concourse and new roadways. A new Terminal C will have up to 17 domestic and international gates, with six of the gates able to accommodate wide-body aircraft, and a federal inspection station for expanded international air service. Lifelihood.Zone destinations from San Antonio International (here and here) include William P Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas; George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, El Paso International, Albuquerque International Sunport, Phoenix Sky Harbor, Los Angeles International, San Diego International, Torreón International Airport, Torreón, Coahuila; and Monterrey International Airport, Apodaca, Nuevo León. See detailed San Antonio International (here and here); pilot information at AirNav.com.

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El Paso International Airport (EPIA) (here and here), El Paso, Texas, is 4 miles (6 kilometers) northeast of downtown El Paso at an elevation of 3,962 feet (1,208 meters) above mean sea level, with two concourses, 15 ramps, and three runways: 4/22 is 12,020 feet × 150 feet (3,664 meters × 46 m), asphalt; 8R/26L is 9,025 feet × 150 feet (2,751 meters × 46 meters), asphalt; and 8L/26R, 5,499 feet × 75 feet (1,676 meters × 23 meters), concrete. El Paso International (here and here) is a focus airport for Southwest Airlines, which accounts for more than half of all passengers, and is also served by eight other major airlines: Alaska, Allegiant, American, American Eagle, Delta, Frontier, United, and United Express. Cutter Aviation and Atlantic Aviation have fixed-base operations to serve general aviation. The terminal has a pier-satellite layout, with a central entrance and gates branching east to west on the two concourses. US Lifelihood.Zone destinations from El Paso International (here and here) include George Bush International Airport, Houston, Texas; William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas, Phoenix Sky Harbor, Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles International, Los Angeles, California, Long Beach Airport, Long Beach, California; and San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California. See detailed El Paso International (here and here) pilot information at AirNav.com.

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New Mexico
The largest commercial aviation facility in New Mexico is Albuquerque International Sunport (here and here), served by these airlines: Advanced, Alaska, American, Boutique, Delta, jetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, and United. Direct flights between Albuquerque and out-of-state Lifelihood.Zone destinations: Austin, Texas; Burbank, California; Houston/George Bush, Texas; Houston/William P. Hobby, Texas; Long Beach, California; Los Angeles, California; Phoenix/Sky Harbor, Arizona; San Antonio, Texas; and the San Diego, California — Tijuana, Baja California, binational metropolitan area. Direct flights between Albuquerque and in-state destinations include Carlsbad, Las Cruces, and Silver City. The Albuquerque International Sunport‘s general aviation facility is the Double Eagle II Airport (DEII) (here and here), about 8 miles (13 kilometers) north of interstate highway I-40 atop Nine Mile Hill on Albuquerque’s West Mesa, 5,834 feet above mean sea level. DEII includes about 240 based aircraft and some 120,000 annual operations comprising private, charter, and corporate flights, training, military, and air ambulance. See detailed DEII pilot information at AirNav.com.

DEII fixed base operator Bode Aero Services, open 7:00 a m – 7:00 p m every day with 24-hour call out available, offers a pilot lounge, 24-hour self-serve and full-serve AvFuel 100LL AvGas and Jet-A fuel (premixed with Prist anti-icing fuel additive), aircraft maintenance, oxygen service, GPU (Ground Power Units), weather briefing stations, avionics, tie-downs, and T- and bay hangers; view on Google Maps.

New Mexico‘s population is concentrated in the state’s central counties (Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Sandoval, and Valencia), south-central counties (Doña Ana, Luna, and Otero), southeastern counties (Chavez, Eddy, and Lea), and in the northwestern county of San Juan. So should Prem Rawat choose to travel across New Mexico by helicopter, during a single trip he could, for example, hold an event in each of the state’s four geographically dispersed population centers, but with nearly all of the state’s general population proximate.

General aviation facilities in north-central New Mexico: the Santa Fe Municipal Airport, Santa Fe County; detailed pilot information at AirNav.com; in southeast-central New Mexico, the Roswell International Air Center, Chavez County; detailed pilot information at AirNav.com and, in southeastern New Mexico, the Lea County Regional Airport near Hobbs in Lea County; detailed pilot information at AirNav.com.

Of the twenty-three sovereign Native American groups with lands in New Mexico, the Navajo Nation has the most territory, some 27,325 square miles (70,770 square kilometers) across three of the Four Corners states. By comparison, the Navajo Nation territory is slightly larger than the eastern US state of West Virginia. The Navajo are also the most populous Native American group in the US. As would be expected, Navajo is the most widely spoken Native American language in the US and is the third most spoken language in Arizona and in New Mexico after English and Spanish.

The Navajo Nation Council Chamber in Window Rock, Arizona, is 1.15 miles north of the Window Rock Airport, (a general aviation facility also owned by the Navajo Nation). The airport covers 88 acres at an elevation of 6,742 feet above mean sea level and has one runway (designated 2/20) with an asphalt surface 7,000 by 75 feet (2134 x 23 meters). See Window Rock Airport detailed pilot information at AirNav.com. (The closest alternative airport is Four Corners Regional Airport (here and here) in Farmington in the northwestern New Mexico county of San Juan; detailed pilot information at AirNav.com).

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Tucson International Airport (here and here), Tucson;  8 miles (13 kilometers) south of downtown Tucson; public transportation to Tucson International is Sun Tran bus routes 11 and 25. Tucson International is 2,643 feet (806 meters) above mean sea level and has two asphalt runways: 12/30, the main runway, is 10,996 feet × 150 feet (3,352 meters × 46 meters), with ILS; 4/22, the crosswind runway, is 7,000 feet × 150 feet (2,134 meters × 46 mers). The Tucson International terminal is shaped like a wide X and has three concourses: Concourse A has nine gates and Concourse B has eleven gates. Concourse C is in a separate building west of the main terminal and has one gate. There are three levels inside the main terminal; the third level, designated for meetings, has conference rooms and also includes Tucson Airport Authority offices. Airlines with flights to Lifelihood.Zone destinations: Alaska (John Wayne Airport, Orange County, California); American (Phoenix Sky Harbor); American Eagle (Los Angeles International, Phoenix Sky Harbor); Delta Connection (Los Angeles International); Southwest (William P. Hobby Airport, Houston; Los Angeles International; San Diego International); United (George Bush Intercontinental, Houston); and United Express (George Bush International, Houston). See detailed pilot information for Tucson International (here and here) at Airnav.com.

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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (here and here), Phoenix, is three miles (4.8 kilometers) east of downtown Phoenix. By road, the airport terminals are served by East Sky Harbor Boulevard, which is fed by Interstate 10, and Arizona State Routes 143 and 202. Phoenix Sky Harbor International, at an elevation of 1,135 feet (346 meters) above mean sea level, has three parallel concrete/grooved runways: Runway 8/26 measures 11,489 feet × 150 feet (3,502 meters × 46 meters); Runway 7L/25R measures 10,300 feet × 150 feet (3,139 meters × 46 meters); and Runway 7R/25L measures 7,800 feet × 150 feet (2,377 meters × 46 meters). Phoenix Sky Harbor International has 117 active aircraft gates in two Terminals (3 and 4). Terminal 3, with 25 gates, is used by most domestic or precleared arrivals. International carriers generally operate in Terminal 4, with 92 gates. Airlines with flights to US Lifelihood.Zone destinations: Advanced Air (New Mexico: Carlsbad, Gallup, and Silver City), American (Albuquerque,  El Paso, Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Orange County, Palm Springs, San Antonio, San Diego, and Tucson). See detailed pilot information for Phoenix Sky Harbor International at Airnav.com.

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California
Los Angeles International Airport (here and here), Los Angeles, is 18 miles (29 kilometers) southwest of downtown Los Angeles at an altitude of 128 feet (39 meters) above mean sea level. Los Angeles International has four parallel runways: 24R/06L, 8,926 feet (2,721 meters) long and 150 feet (46 meters) wide) and 24L/06R, 10,885 feet (3,318 meters) long and 150 feet (46 meters) wide, are north of the airport terminals and are designated the North Airfield Complex.

Runways 25R/07L, 12,923 feet (3,939 meters) long and 150 feet (46 meters) wide and 25L/07R, 11,095 feet (3,382 meters) long and 200 feet (61 meters) wide are south of the airport terminals and are designated the South Airfield Complex.

Los Angeles International is located next to the Pacific Ocean on the west, with residential communities on the airport’s east, north, and south sides. Typically, an airport’s loudest operations are from departing aircraft, so Los Angeles International uses a “Preferential Runway Use Policy,” minimizing noise levels in the residential communities during late night hours by having aircraft depart over and arrive from the ocean side.

Los Angeles International has 161 gates in nine passenger terminals arranged in the shape of the letter U. On what’s called the landside of the airport, LAX Shuttle route A buses allow passengers to move between all terminals. On what’s called the airside, pedestrian corridors allow passengers to move between all terminals on foot without having to exit and reenter airport security. The LAX Automated People Mover connects terminals to one another on the landside and provides connections to the LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility, parking facilities, and the LAX/Metro Transit Center station, served by the Los Angeles Metro Rail system and public bus routes. See detailed pilot information for Los Angeles International (here and here) at Airnav.com.

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San Diego International Airport (here and here), San Diego,  is three miles (4.8 kilometers) northwest of downtown San Diego at an altitude of 17 feet (five meters) above mean sea level. San Diego International has a single asphalt-concrete runway (designated 09/27), 9,401 feet (2,865 meters) long and 200 feet (61 meters) wide. It is the busiest single-runway airport in the US. San Diego International’s landing approach is close to downtown San Diego’s skyscrapers, a potential difficulty for pilots due to the relatively short usable landing area, steep descent angle over the crest of Bankers Hill, and shifting wind currents on the final approach. See detailed pilot information for San Diego International (here and here) at Airnav.com.

San Diego is also the headquarters of the Southern California terminal radar approach control (SoCal TRACON or SCT). SCT is the busiest approach control facility in the US. SCT serves Los Angeles International Airport; John Wayne Airport, Costa Mesa (Orange County); Long Beach Airport, Long Beach; Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego; Hollywood Burbank Airport, Burbank; Ontario International Airport, Ontario; San Diego International; and smaller Southern California airports.

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HUBS

LIFELIHOOD ZONE: MEXICO EVENT AND OTHER OUTREACH FACILITIES
Tamaulipas
Centro de Convenciones La Cantera, Matamoros, part of the  Brownsville, Texas — Matamoros, Tamaulipas, binational metropolitan area. Holiday Inn, rooms for 1,500: comprehensive multimedia + audio visual support; office supplies for meeting rooms; shipping available; meeting registration services; printing, copying, scanner, and fax services; same day dry cleaning pickup and delivery or laundry valet; Wi-Fi access throughout the hotel; and catering services; in-room and in-suite mini-fridge, coffee maker, and safe.

ExpoTampico, Tampico, has an exhibition area of 9,000 square meters, a capacity for 8,500 people, three exhibition halls, 3,000 square meters each, and 13 convention rooms. ExpoTampico offers 9,000 square meters of column-free exhibition space, divided into three halls, 2,582 square meters for conventions and social events divided into 13 rooms, and 2,876 square meters in lobby corridors (en Español aquí).

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Nuevo León
Cintermex in Monterrey, Nuevo León, is recognized as one of the most important conference and convention centers in Latin America. Another prominent Monterrey venue is the Citibanamex Auditorium, along with Centro Convex, offering event space and meeting rooms. The Tec de Monterrey campus in Monterrey provides various venues suitable for conferences and events, including the Glaxo Auditorium and the Library Pavilion, which are used for meetings, presentations, and award ceremonies. Additionally, the Presidente InterContinental Monterrey, located in San Pedro Garza García, features meeting spaces and is a preferred option for business events. The Monterrey Convention and Visitors Bureau also serves as a resource for event planning and venue information.

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Coahuila
Torreón Convention Center (TCC) (Centro de Convenciones de Torreón), Torreón, has eighteen “micro” rooms distributed over three levels for business events, work meetings, courses and training, and similar gatherings. Rooms on the first and second levels are divisible into 250 square meter (about 2,691 square foot), 500 square meter (about 5,382 square foot), and 750 square meter (about 8,073 square foot) capacities. The rooms accommodate 160 in banquet modality and 270 in auditorium modality. Four Swamps Hall for exhibitions and conferences is 3,780 square meters (about 40,688 square feet) and can be divided into three rooms of 1,260 square meters each (about 13,563 square feet each), with maximum capacities of 2,700 people per room, 900 per room in banquet modality, and 1,100 people per room in auditorium modality. Total capacity for the three rooms is 3,300 people. The 5,000 square meter (53,820 square foot) Velaria can accommodate all types of outdoor events with a 7,000-person capacity. All TCC facilities can cater to the disabled.

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Chihuahua
ExpoChihuahua, Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua), has an exhibition area is 12,000 square meters and has a lobby of 3,000 square meters with a height of nine meters. The convention area is 6,363 square meters, has an atrium of 1,000 square meters, a lobby of 2,000 square meters, 16 simultaneous meeting rooms, two VIP boardrooms, a bar with terrace, storage rooms, and access ramps. ExpoChihuahua is on a main avenue with the best hotel chains, technology development centers, and companies convenient for visitors and exhibitors to find services (en Español aquí).

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Sonora
Event Spaces in Nogales.

Hotel San Carlos Plaza, Beach & Convention Center, San Carlos, about a six-hour drive south from the Nogales, Sonora —  Nogales, Arizona, binational metropolitan area, on Mexican Federal Highway 15.

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Baja California
Baja California Convention Center, Rosarito, about a 25 minute drive south on Mexican Federal Highway 1 from the San Diego, California – Tijuana, Baja California, binational metropolitan area.

Tijuana Cultural Center.

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE: US EVENT AND OTHER OUTREACH FACILITIES
Texas
The Brownsville Events Center main ballroom can accommodate up to 1,200 people theater style and can be divided into five rooms, each accommodating 125 people classroom style or 200 theater style. Functions can also be held in outdoor semitropical- landscaped waterfront grounds. Contact information here.

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New Mexico
Among central New Mexico event facilities in Bernalillo County are the Albuquerque Convention Center, Balloon Museum, Balloon Fiesta Park, BioPark, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Isleta Amphitheater, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science , Popejoy Hall, and Tingley Coliseum.

Among event facilities in north-central New Mexico are, in Santa Fe County, the New Mexico State Legislature (see primarily Buchanan Gardens Tour) in Santa Fe; in far north and western Rio Arriba County near Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center; and in far north and central Taos County, the Taos Convention Center in Taos.

Among event facilities in southwest-central New Mexico are, in Socorro County, the Macey Conference Center (see also here) at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) in Socorro; and in far southwest-central Doña Ana County, the Corbett Center Student Union (see also here) at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

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Arizona
Event Spaces in Nogales.

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California
Monterey Conference Center, Monterey. See especially Event Planner Guide and Floor Plans and Capacities.

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CULTURES

LIFELIHOOD.ZONE: AMERINDIANS-NATIVE AMERICANS
Humans first migrated into the Americas from northeastern Siberia to western Alaska from about 26,000 years to about 19,000 years ago over the Beringia land bridge formed during the lowered sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum. Descendants of these migrants, today often called Amerindians (or Native Americans, especially in the US and Canada), followed the retreating ice and settled throughout the Americas.

The next great migration from the Old World to the New World began in1492 when Christopher Colombus, an Italian sponsored by the monarchs of the Castile region in what is now Spain, landed in The Bahamas while searching for a western sea passage to the East Indies, hoping to profit from the lucrative spice trade. Hispanics, then Anglos and others followed as conquerors — of each other as well as of Amerindians and Native Americans — ultimately splitting North America forcefully along a political fault line — the US-Mexico border. These centuries-long group confrontations eroded with synchronous informal couplings and intermarriages chronicled in mestizo concepts. Regardless, conflicts remain and have transmuted, most visibly in the Mexico — US border wall.

In northwestern Mexico, the Sierra Madre Occidental, a region of high plateaus breaking off toward the Pacific Ocean into a series of rugged barrancas (for example, Copper Canyon (Barrancas del Cobre), served as refuges for Lifelihood.Zone’s Amerindians, as have the deserts of Sonora. The Lifelihood.Zone states of Chihuahua,  Sonora, and Baja California have the largest populations of Amerindians; the Rarámuri (Tarahumara) of Chihuahua are likely the most widely known of these groups.

The Guarijío, a small group bordering the Tarahumara on the northwest, are closely related to them. The Yaqui, in the Río Yaqui valley, live in scattered colonies in Sonora and in Arizona. The Mayo live in southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa. The Pima Bajo live on the Sierra Madre Occidental border of Sonora–Chihuahua. The Pima-Papago (O’odham) of northwest Sonora are identical with a much larger portion of the Tohono O’odham in Arizona. Remnants of the Baja California Indians — the Tiipay (Tipai; of the Diegueño, Paipai (Akwa’ala), and Kiliwa — live in ranch clusters and other tiny settlements in the mountains near the US border. They are little different today from their relatives in Southern California. A small number of Cocopa in the Colorado River delta in like manner represent a southward extension of Colorado River Yumans from the US. The Seri live along the desert coast of north-central Sonora and are likely related to now-extinct peoples who lived across the gulf in Baja California.

Although the US-Mexico border now separates states like Chihuahua in Mexico from Texas and New Mexico in the US, Amerindians in Chihuahua retain their US cultural, linguistic, and religious ties and, in pre-conquest times, had trading relations with, Native Americans in Texas and New Mexico .

So until the beginning of the twentieth century, the border of Chihuahua with Texas and New Mexico was a meaningless line in the sand, across which Apache and other Native Americans freely passed. Today the Lifelihood.Zone’s Amerindians–Native Americans could still consider the US-Mexico border to be only an imaginary though often irritating line, regardless of attempts by governments controlling Lifelihood.Zone to make its effects more tolerable.

In New Mexico, for example, the state constitution accommodates Native American (the most common term in the US and in Canada) languages, providing that all residents who speak neither English nor Spanish have a right to vote, to hold public office, and to serve on juries.

In 1989, New Mexico became the first of only four states to officially adopt the English Plus resolution, which supports acceptance in the US of non-English languages. In 2008, New Mexico was the first state to officially adopt a Navajo textbook for use in public schools.

Besides the Navajo, the other sovereign Native American groups in New Mexico include three Apache (Fort Sill; Jicarilla; and Mescalero) and nineteen Puebloan: (Acoma; Cochiti; Isleta; Jemez; Laguna; Nambé; Ohkay Owingeh; Picuris; Pojoaque; Sandia; San Felipe; San Ildefonso; Santa Ana; Santa Clara; Santo Domingo; Taos; Tesuque; Zia; and Zuni.

Also besides the Navajo, there are twenty-one federally recognized tribes in Arizona, including 17 with reservations that lie entirely within its borders (reservations make up more than one-fourth of the state’s land area). Tribes: Apache (Chiricahua, southeastern Arizona; Western Apache; San Carlos Apache, southeastern Arizona; Tonto Apache, central Arizona; and White Mountain Apache, eastern Arizona; Cocopah, southwestern Arizona; Halchidhoma, central Arizona; Havasupai, northern Arizona; Hopi, northeastern and western Arizona; Hopi-Tewa, northeastern Arizona; Hualapai, northwestern Arizona; Maricopa (Piipaash), central Arizona; Mohave, western Arizona; O‘odham (Akimel O’odham (Pima), southern Arizona; Hia C-eḍ Oʼodham, southwestern Arizona; and Tohono O’odham, southern Arizona); Quechan (Yuma), southwestern Arizona; Southern Paiute (Chemehuevi, western Arizona; Kaibab, northwestern Arizona; and San Juan, northern Arizona); Yaqui (Pascua Yaqui, southeastern Arizona); Yavapai (Kwevkepaya (Southern Yavapai), south-central Arizona; Tolkepaya (Western Yavapai), western Arizona; Wipukepa (Northeastern Yavapai), north-central Arizona; and Yavapé (Northwestern Yavapai), northern Arizona); and Zuni, eastern Arizona.

Contemporary Southern California indigenous peoples include the Cahuilla, near the geographic center of Southern California, Chumash, central and southern coastal regions, Cupeño, traditionally about 50 miles (80 km) inland and 50 miles (80 km) north of the modern day Mexico–US border in the Peninsular Range, Juaneño, ancestral lands extending from the coast to the mountains, south from what is now known as Aliso Creek in Orange County to Las Pulgas Canyon in the northwestern part of San Diego County; Kawaiisu, the only “treatied tribe” in California; lived in a series of small and large permanent villages in the Tehachapi Valley and to the north across the Tehachapi Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada, toward Lake Isabella and Walker Pass, extending to the Pacific Ocean; Kitanemuk, traditionally lived in the Tehachapi Mountains and the Antelope Valley area of the western Mojave Desert of Southern California; Kizh, homeland consisted of Los Angeles County, Orange County, and parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties; Kumeyaay, live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and at the southern border of California in the US; Luiseño, inhabited the coastal area of Southern California, ranging 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the present-day southern part of Los Angeles County to the northern part of San Diego County, and inland about 30 miles (48 kilometers); Mohave, indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation includes territory within the borders of California, Arizona, and Nevada. The Colorado River Indian Reservation includes parts of California and Arizona and is shared by members of the Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples; Serrano, typically divided into the Mountain Serrano and the Desert Serrano. The Desert Serrano historically occupied the western and central Mojave Desert along the Mojave River. The Mojave River region begins in the San Bernardino Mountains and provided ease of trading access between the Serrano and other indigenous groups, including the Mojave; Tataviam, ancestral land included northwest present-day Los Angeles County and southern Ventura County, primarily in the upper basin of the Santa Clara River, the Santa Susana Mountains, and the Sierra Pelona Ridge; Timbisha, who have lived in the Death Valley region of south-central California near the Nevada border for more than a thousand years; Tübatulabal, traditional homelands extending over 1,300 square miles (3,400 square kilometers), including the Kern River and South Fork Kern River drainages (in the Kern Valley area of California) extending from high mountainous terrain in the north to about 41 miles (66 kilometers) below the junction of the two rivers in the south; and the Yokuts tribes populating the San Joaquin Valley from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta south to Bakersfield and east to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Just as retirees to New Mexico from across the US maintain ties to relatives and friends in their home states, as high-tech researchers in New Mexico from countries worldwide maintain personal ties in those countries and professional ties in still other countries, and as in-migrating Hispanics often take pride in rearing their children to be bilingual and bicultural by spending significant time each year with Mexican friends and relatives, especially those in the Lifelihood.Zone tier of Mexican states, so too Native Americans in Lifelihood.Zone maintain personal and organizational ties to those elsewhere in North America through, for example, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and the annual Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and Miss Indian World Pageant in Albuquerque .

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE: ANGLOS
New Mexico‘s diverse Anglo population is primarily due to nearly 175 years of in-migration 1) after New Mexico became a US Territory in 1850, absorbing migrants from the flow of US nineteenth-century westward expansion, and 2) following statehood in 1912, when in-migration was boosted and further diversified as New Mexico became an attractive Sunbelt retirement destination.

These transplanted Anglos have sometimes expected living in such a robustly multicultural state to be as “enchanting” as New Mexico‘s official “Land of Enchantment” nickname.

But even Spanish-speaking Anglos have occasionally found less-than-expected acceptance by New Mexico‘s native Spanish-speakers.

Explicit limitations characterize Anglo friendships and marriages with traditionally reared Native Americans, whose groups are intensely protective of their unique customs, institutions, and languages. Anglo (and other) outsiders must accept being barred — regardless of interpersonal ties — from learning details of and participating in significant aspects of the cultures of these Native American spouses and friends.

But because the forbidden Native American cultural disclosures are categoric, outsiders understand they’re “nothing personal, just [cultural] business,” to neutrally recast a famous quotation from 1930s US organized crime euphemisms. These individually uncrossable chasms of the unknowable and the unshareable can therefore be bridged with mutual respect.

Overall, despite linguistic expectations and realities at the margin and regardless of forbidden Native American cultural disclosures to outsider friends and spouses, Anglos in New Mexico can widely partake of and participate in the state’s multicultural mixtures — more accurately said, “blendings.”

To illustrate, it’s impossible to live in New Mexico without automatically “picking up” some Spanish in big-box stores with bilingual signage and bilingual product labeling, all the while immersed in one of the always-on storewide corporate “radio stations” broadcasting bilingual songs and bilingual advertising, interspersed with call-in corporation-wide “talk radio” by customers and employees (usually in English), all regularly interrupted with in-store requests for customer assistance in various departments. The requests may be bilingual or in Spanish when the customer needing assistance is primarily Spanish-speaking, the request being directed at bilingual employees.

In addition, Spanish-language radio stations are sprinkled across the frequencies, along with UHF-channel television news-weather-sports (the latter filled with “fútbol,” US soccer in English), and Spanish-language soap operas, their frequent conversational “pregnant pauses” helpful for Spanish-language learners to “keep up.” A plethora of on line Spanish language courses are available (the basics usually free). Spanish courses are part of school curricula, and conversations in colloquial Spanish are free for the eavesdropping everywhere.

In daily life, even barely borderline Spanish-speakers and barely borderline English-speakers often have spontaneous “conversations” — asking for and giving directions, disclosing personal experiences with products and places, etc. These sometimes grammatically humorous Spanglish interactions, especially entertaining to bystanders who can’t hear the words but are bemused by the exaggerated body language-hand gestures used when vocabulary and syntax fail, nonetheless generally leave both sides proud of themselves for having “spoken” the other’s language and respecting the other’s reciprocal efforts.

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE: BLAXICANS AND AFRO-MEXICANS
For an overview of African Americans (also called Black Americans, go here. Blaxicans and Afro-Mexicans also denote genetic and cultural amalgams. Blaxicans are Americans of mixed African-American and Mexican-American descent. Afro-Mexicans (also called Black Mexicans) are Mexicans of total or predominantly African ancestry. Mexican Lifelihood.Zone states bordering the US states of Texas and Southern California have the highest percentages of Afro-Mexicans. Some enslaved and free African Americans migrated into northern Mexico in the 19th century from the US. A few of the routes of the Underground Railroad led to Mexico. Total Afro-descendant populations by Lifelihood.Zone state: Tamaulipas: 22,371; Nuevo León: 94,710; Coahuila: 10,933; Chihuahua: 11,734; Sonora: 10,261; and Baja California: 17,573. For a discussion of African influence on Mexican culture, go here. Much of this influence also applies to US Lifelihood.Zone culture

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LIFELIHOOD.ZONE: HISPANICS
The names “New Mexico” and “Mexico” derive from Nahuatl roots. Across the Nahuatl-speaking Mexica Empire in the Valley of Mexico and through the trade networks of these ancestral Puebloans in the rest of Mesoamerica, legends spread of an unseen, older northern empire with riches rivaling the Mexica‘s own. A 1609 Nahuatl-language Crónica Mexicayotl made explicit this connection, in which the legendary northern empire is called Yancuic Mexico, literally “a new Mexico.”

These legends became the primary sources for the Seven Cities of Gold myth spurring exploration of the contemporary New Mexico region by Spanish conquistadors following Hernán Cortés‘ conquest in 1521 of the Aztec Empire, a confederation of three city-states: Tenochtitlán (city-state of the Mexica), Texcoco, and Tlacopan.

Hispanic residents of the nation of Mexico adopted its name in 1821 upon winning independence from Spain.

Regardless of name origins and parallel to Anglo in-migration, Hispanic in-migration — predominantly from the northwestern Mexico states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California Sur — has continued unabated since New Mexico‘s days as a US Territory.

The Government of Mexico maintains a consulate in Albuquerque. In turn, the Albuquerque consulate maintains outreach services throughout New Mexico via a consulado móvil program.

The New Mexico legislature is constitutionally empowered to publish laws in English and Spanish and to appropriate funds for translation. Amendments to the New Mexico constitution must be approved by referendum printed on the ballot in English and in Spanish, and certain legal notices must be published in English and in Spanish.

In the judiciary, witnesses and defendants have the right to testify in English or in Spanish, and monolingual Spanish speakers have the same right to be considered for jury duty as do English speakers.

In public education, the state has the constitutional obligation to provide bilingual education and Spanish-speaking instructors in school districts where the majority of students are Hispanophone.

In 1995, the state adopted an official bilingual song, “New Mexico – Mi Lindo Nuevo México.”

Santa Fe’s El Nuevo Mexicano, which ceased publication in 1958, was the last of the state’s general-circulation Spanish-language newspapers. UHF television has replaced them, primarily Telemundo (for example, Albuquerque channel 47.1) and Univision (for example, Albuquerque channel 14.1).

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ABOUT LIFELIHOOD.ZONE
Lifelihood.Zone is a personal, unaffiliated site. It is continually tuned and updated, so at any time part(s) of the site might be incomplete or superseded. Notification is always appreciated: “update” (finaledit@usa.net).

Awareness of Lifelihood.Zone is spread primarily person-to-person, including a high-quality business card imprinted simply Lifelihood.Zone.

Upon perceiving — during a serendipitous single meeting, during multiple personal encounters or through online contact(s) — that an individual might be receptive to Prem Rawat‘s offer, the card or a reference to Lifelihood.Zone is presented neutrally, for example, “You might find this person of interest.”

Recipient requests for details are deflected, for example, with a shrug and a smile and saying, “Your experience is the only one that counts.” Prem Rawat can speak for himself, and the recipient can read and listen less encumbered with expectations.

A Lifelihood.Zone card recipient experiencing value in Prem Rawat‘s offer might pass the card to another, and so on. A high-quality card retains its patina unaffected by multiple handlings.

Five cards to an address can be ordered at no charge through “update” (finaledit@usa.net); orders can be repeated every thirty days. Orders for more than or fewer than five cards are not accepted.

Instead of a card, friends and family might be given a copy of Hear Yourself or another of Prem Rawat‘s books such as Peace is Possible on a birthday or other gift-appropriate occasion, with a note expressing hope the friend or family member also enjoys the book. Whatever synonym or phrase might be substituted for “enjoy,” let Prem Rawat speak for himself.

Lifelihood.Zone residents wanting to help build a foundation for events with Prem Rawat are encouraged to create independent sites for developing resources in their areas or for their groups, and they might want to apply for a Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) microgrant and have their sites listed in i4joy.

Upon request, an independent site link would be prominently displayed in Lifelihood.Zone. Independent site creators also are welcome to host and curate area or group resource sections in Lifelihood.Zone as portals to their sites. And they are welcome to host and curate area or group resource sections in Lifelihood.Zone without creating independent sites. Offer to create-curate an area-group resource section through “update” (finaledit@usa.net).

Or, Lifelihood.Zone can simply be used as a personal resource to stay abreast of developments across the Zone, for example, nearby Knowledge sessions and local events. All contacts with Lifelihood.Zone are considered confidential by default, to be disseminated only as requested by or with explicit permission of the owner of the information.

Prem Rawat has been conducting team trainings focused on effective collaboration, regional integration, and leveraging technology to extend his message to new audiences, for example, “Bringing the Village Together.”

The US Census Bureau American Community Survey estimates (2023) the Hispanic population of Texas at 39.89%, of New Mexico at 49.78%, of Arizona at 32.03%, and of California at 39.68%. Within the Hispanic populations of all the US Lifelihood.Zone states, regardless of race, the largest groups are of Mexican origin.

The Survey estimates the Native American and Alaska Native population of Texas at 0.28%. of New Mexico at 16.84%. of Arizona at 4.15%. and of California at 1.0%.

Ongoing Lifelihood.Zone translations and hostings are welcome in any language and are especially sought in Spanish and in the orthographies of Native American groups in Lifelihood.Zone. All translation-hostings will be displayed co-equally in Lifelihood.Zone. Offer a translation-hosting through “update” (finaledit@usa.net).

Events in Lifelihood.Zone with Prem Rawat could be, as examples, for staff and patients at hospitals and other healthcare facilities; for college and university students, faculty, and staff; for imprisoned populations and staff at venues such as the Penitentiary of New Mexico; for culture-specific populations at venues such as the Navajo Nation Council Chamber; for law enforcement trainees and staff at venues such as the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy; for members of the military such as the New Mexico State Defense Force; for veterans; and for members of the New Mexico Legislature. Prem Rawat might also conduct Knowledge sessions and reviews and Intelligent Existence focus sessions across Lifelihood.Zone.

These events and other outreach would have maximum reach and coverage if well-timed, for example, adjoining internationally attended popular culture events such as the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, adjoining or during college and university breaks, and by avoiding congruence with regional popular culture events such as the New Mexico State Fair, Hispanic events such as Cinco de Mayo celebrations, and Native American dances and feast days.

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