Dawn of Peace is a creative community and peace organisation, dedicated to protecting the integrity and sacredness of all Life through conscious activism. Our mission is to build bridges and create true peace by educating people about the spiritual reality of life. We advocate for nonviolence, holistic healing, and self sovereignty as vital tools for the evolution of humanity. Our goal is to guide people beyond the current doctrine of apathy, deception and dominance into a culture of compassion, truth and freedom.
Dawn of Peace was founded by Henna Maria Vermeulen on the 11th of November, 2019, in Andalucía, Spain.
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REV. CAROL SAUNDERS
Rev. Carol Saunders became vegetarian in 1973 and vegan in 2011. She is an ordained Interfaith and Unity minister and is committed to helping people share the Ahimsa and Universal Love messages in their spiritual communities. Carol started and led a Unity church in a Chicago suburb for 11 years.
I am a vegan psychologist, existential psychotherapist, author, and communications trainer originally from London, UK, now living in Sydney Australia. Having originally trained as an organisational psychologist, I held a number of lectureships in universities around the world and continue to provide in-house, public and training to enhance communication, team-building and culture. My work now focuses on providing vegans, animal advocates and animal protection agencies around the globe with tools to live in this “not-yet” vegan world and communicate the imperative of veganism more effectively.
I coined the word Vystopia, the mental anguish of knowing about the systematised abuse of animals within a hidden dystopian world and am the author of several books, including, The Myths of Life and the Choices We Have (2005), Communicate: How to Say What Needs to be Said, When it Needs to be Said, in the Way it Needs to be Said (2012) and Vystopia: The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World (2018). I co-founded the Vegan Voices Online Training, am co-contributor to the Vegan Education Australia (VEA) 30-DayVegan Challenge, and contributor to numerous books including Plant Powered Women and Everyday Vegans.
With our freedom of thought, speech and movement now under serious threat, Mark Doneddu, Founder of World Vegan Day Australia (one of the largest vegan festivals in the world) and I continue to co-host the Second Stage Vystopia: What Else Don’t We Know webinar series to help vegans continue to challenge societal norms and discover the truth.
I'm a North American born artivist and culinary adept presently residing in the United Kingdom. I often do business as a detoxification specialist, rehabilitative nutrition/fitness consultant, studio musician, and writer –– though a large portion of my work over the past 15+ years has been centred around development and preparation of gourmet raw, organic, seasonal and wildcrafted plant-based cuisine. Having been an ethical vegan since 1990, my longstanding life philosophy may best be described by use of the Sanskrit term “Ahimsa” (meaning non-violence or non-harm) in accordance with scriptural guidelines as outlined in Genesis 1:29.
Examples of my culinary creations may be found via Instagram, as well as my website, which began in 2012 as means to document research, experiences, and recipes during my efforts to recover from a “permanently disabling” accident incurred whilst cycling in Los Angeles. My intentions were not only to heal from my own injuries, but also aimed toward assisting others in similar situations by creating an ever evolving point of reference. It was also around this time that I became further involved in spiritual service, often dwelling in monastic settings (and occasional hermitage) throughout the process of initiation and chartering of UNLESS Ministriesas a vessel and overseeing entity for LORAX Community activities.
Now, more than ever, my primary focus remains targeted toward personal sovereignty, health freedom, respect, and peaceful co-existence with all beings in accordance with Natural Law.
DAWN LESTER
It is fundamentally important for people to fully comprehend that: In order for us to have peace, we must be free. Peace and freedom are incredibly important to me as they are essential features of life, for all living beings, not just humans. This is particularly pertinent at the moment with respect to the ever-increasing attacks on and removal of our freedoms. In order to become free, we need to understand why we are not free. One of the main reasons is because others have illegitimately taken away our ability to control our own lives. This is an unacceptable situation; it is to help change this situation that I became an activist.
The core goal of my activism is to provide people with the information they need to make truly informed decisions, not only about their health, which is a key area of interest for me, but about all aspects of their lives. The ability to make informed decisions empowers people to take responsibility for their actions. This will restore the power to where it truly belongs - with each and every one of us.
Derrick Broze is an author, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and activist originally from Houston, now based in Mexico. In 2010, Derrick founded the activist alliance The Houston Free Thinkers, organizing protests, music festivals, community gardens, skillshares, and other community events.
Derrick has been producing videos, essays, and articles since 2011. In 2011, he began broadcasting his radio show Free Thinker Radio, which continues to air on 90.1 KPFT in Houston. In 2013, he founded The Conscious Resistance Network, a site dedicated to multimedia journalism that exposes corporate and governmental corruption while highlighting solutions.
In 2015, he began writing books, including The Holistic Self-Assessment. His most recent work’s are How To Opt Out of the Technocratic State and The Conscious Resistance Trilogy final edition. Derrick also started writing and producing documentaries in 2015.
I am and have always been a seeker. Having grown up in a tiny town in a Finnish forest, I was naturally called to explore the world. I moved to California by the age of 18 and began my activism helping the homeless in San Francisco. In 2008 I started campaigning for refugees with Amnesty International in Finland, and in 2012 I became vegan and started advocating for animals rights in London.
My search to comprehend the inner and outer landscapes of life eventually took me to the cradle of indigenous wisdom, the Amazon Rainforest. There I learnt ancient healing arts apprenticing with the Shipibo tribe together with my husband Richard for 5 years.
In 2019 I founded Dawn of Peace, bringing together my love for activism and spirituality, and began forming a collective of peace makers, who have the capacity to address the diverse issues of our world from a holistic and compassionate perspective.
My name is Holly and I live in the state of North Carolina in the United States of America. My whole life I have found joy and happiness in relationships with others, animals and nature. At a very young age I developed a love of nature, with family trips to the ocean and playing in the woods, near lakes and ponds, and on farmland with my sister near our home in Virginia. I developed a special affinity for our cats and dogs and the horses and deer close to my childhood home. As a nurse, my mother has always served others in ways to support their health, wellness and healing. I am proud to follow in her footsteps, as I've happily discovered my calling to help people learn about and use their body's innate ability to heal. Currently, I enjoy studying holistic medicine and making naturopathic remedies. I've spent my adult life dedicated to serving very young children, their families and caregivers.
My search for a sovereign truth likely started when I was born, however I remember awakening after losing my earthly father several years ago. Since then, I have been committed to gaining a clearer understanding of who we are as human and spiritual beings, as well as the true nature of our physical and spiritual reality. I am passionate about activism in the areas of child and animal protection, holistic health, medical freedom, natural law, self-sovereignty and protecting humanity. Through continued learning about human and spiritual development, I have come to better understand the interconnectedness of all conscious beings and am committed to teaching and learning about the sacredness of life. I remain dedicated to ending animal suffering and protecting the spirit and wellbeing of all children.
Jen Armstrong / Vegan Queen V
I am a Freedom Warrior, sharing songs of love, truth, compassion and empowerment. I live in my van travelling around the UK with my two beautiful rescue dogs, Zala and Simba!
I have been a professional musician since I left university, and after finding out about the way animals are treated in the animal ag industries 9 years ago, I naturally started writing songs about and for the animals, as a way of sharing the truth about what was going on, and also (I now realise) as a form of therapy for myself, to help process the injustice and evil of it all, and to help turn that darkness in to something beautiful.
Since March 2020, I have been on a very powerful and transformative journey. I have discovered many truths about myself and our world. I now see the systems in place that were built to keep us locked in to slavery and unhappiness. It is my passion and my life's work to help bring these systems down, to empower people, and to bring love, joy, peace and freedom to as many people as I can.
I was inspired to record and release my debut album 'Freedom Warrior' in spring 2022, and the following summer saw me touring the UK with these messages at festivals, events, animal sanctuaries and other venues. In October 2024 I released my second album 'In Dog We Trust,' and I will be touring these songs throughout 2025.
My activism alongside music also includes sharing sacred practices vital to our mental and physical well-being. I regularly swim in the sea, rivers and lakes around the UK, seeing the power and magic of getting in to nature and in to the cold water. I often walk barefoot. I practice yoga daily, alongside breath-work and meditation. I have been fasting intermittently for the last few years, and April 2024 saw me complete a 10 day water fast. Foraging is now a big part of my life and I love sharing very simple information and tips about medicine / food that is abundantly available to us, and for free!
We hold the power, and I believe we can only be truly free when our animal brothers and sisters are free.
I am a researcher with a technical background in computers and development that goes back 25 years. In 2012 I started to research various topics to empower myself and I have been doing that ever since - not just for myself but also in the hope that my understanding and insights into things may benefit others.
During my research I discovered the principles behind natural law and the importance of being in alignment with these principles for the betterment of self and humanity.
I live beside the sea in Connemara, in the West of Ireland, a magical place that I feel deeply connected to. I am passionate about rights and freedoms for humans, animals, and all the small beings of varied consciousness that make up our natural world.
I am what would probably be described as a bit of a Luddite, and I long to return to living a simple, land-based life, in tune with the natural rhythms of the world. Natural healthcare and an holistic lifestyle are important to me.
I am currently studying a plant-based Healing Diets course, and learning to make small toys for children from natural materials. The last year has propelled me on a journey of personal and spiritual discovery, and has ignited an urgency inside me to fight for those rights and freedoms which are being systematically stripped from us.
JUDY CARMAN
I’ve been an activist for nature, peace, and animal rights for a really long time. My dad never tired of arguing about my bumper stickers. I’ve written a few books to help the world go vegan including, Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul and Homo Ahimsa: Who we Really are and how we're going to save the world.
In addition to animal rescue work, some of my current projects include the Animals' Peace Prayer Flag project, vegan spirituality interviews and retreats, co-founding Animal Outreach of Kansas, The Circle of Compassion, Prayer Circle for Animals and Interfaith Vegan Coalition. I was so happy to be in the excellent film, “A Prayer for Compassion,” and was thrilled to receive the Henry Spira Grassroots Animal Activist Award in 2014.
I live at Ahimsa Acres in Kansas and spend as much time as I can outdoors celebrating life with the animals and trees and flowers.
Over three years ago I suffered a stroke, the result of which was life changing in an unexpectedly positive way. I realised that I had to do more with my life and embarked on a journey of inner and outer discovery. Once I had recovered physically I decided that I had to travel, and eventually moved to Mexico, where I started researching and writing a book about Atlantis and other subjects, also visiting Egypt and Peru.
After 9/11 happened, I realised the psychopathic nature of our supposed rulers and I wondered what the source of this evil was and it is my belief that it originates from the spiritual realm. I developed a better understanding of spirituality through plant medicine ceremonies. This real medicine enabled me to identify and free myself from limiting concepts, parasitic entities and other dark forces and became a continuous great work in progress.
The solution is for human beings to follow natural law rather than the laws made by governments and to build alternative systems on a local level. The great work and freedom go hand in hand as the govern-ment becomes internal rather than an external, corrupt and authoritarian entity.
I am keen to build devices which can rid us of etheric pollution, and this is something which I will be working on as well as acquiring some land with others for growing food.
Atlantis is very relevant to what's happening now as its existence demonstrates that the human story we have been led to believe is a lie, circumventing the truth that each one of us as a human being is powerful, and part of a cosmic plan. You can join my Atlantis Quest Telegram group by messaging me: @no_viruses.
RICHARD KAYVAN
Hi, I am Richard and I am a musician, writer, web designer, activist and healer. I handle the technical side of things here at Dawn Of Peace.
From 2013, together with my wife Henna, I trained with indigenous shamans in the Peruvian Amazon for 5 years, learning the ancient art of ‘curanderismo’ - specifically healing with plant medicine. I now use this knowledge and training to help others overcome sickness, addiction, trauma, life hurdles and self sabotage.
I am also an activist for human & animal rights and do my best to live life in accordance with Natural Law and the Essene way of peace and harmony.
I have been in practice as a plant-based nutritionist, naturopath, counsellor and Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner since 1995. My interest in plant-based nutrition sprang from going vegetarian when I was 15; witnessing the transformative impact of a wholefood plant-based diet on thousands of clients has only increased my respect and appreciation for the healing power of this way of eating and living, for our bodies and minds. My husband and I have raised our two children - now 20 and 16 - on a vegan diet, which has nurtured not just their physical health, but their compassion and spiritual well-being. Our rescue dog, Comet, is also thriving on a vegan diet. My mission is to turn the world vegan, one healthy and delicious meal at a time!
WILLPOWER's first form of activism is his music. He has been writing freedom lyrics since he was 13. As a teenager, he wrote books of rhymes that were mainly anti-government. During the plandemic, he was inspired by a friend to protest and express his self for people to hear his voice. It created his EP Unmasking The Illusion and his music video 'We R Free Beings." He then followed that with a freedom/privacy tech song with artist Margaux called Pay Me In Monero as a way to educate ways to exit the systems of control and oppression. He then released his album nUtopia with music videos 'Most Amazing' and 'Happy Slaves'.
He gives a privacy and freedom tech workshop to educate people on big tech and ways to operate outside of their web. His focus now is the Post Web: as the internet becomes impossible to operate with any kind of freedom of thought and speech, we will exit and focus on local communities communicating via mesh networks, open source, decentralized, peer to peer privacy based tools.
He made a song and music video called Clear Skies for Save Our Food's Clear Skies Conference about geoengineering and its effects.
Dr. Will Tuttle, visionary author of the acclaimed best-seller The World Peace Diet, published in 16 languages, is a recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and the Empty Cages Prize. He’s also the author of Your Inner Islands, on developing intuition, as well as editor of Circles of Compassion, on the interconnection of social justice issues and editor of Buddhism & Veganism.
A vegan since 1980, he is a frequent radio, television, and online presenter, and has created several wellness and advocacy training programs. Featured in Cowspiracy and other documentary films, he is the co-founder of the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals. A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from U. C., Berkeley, Dr. Tuttle is a noted composer and pianist. Since 1985, Dr. Tuttle has delivered 4,000+ live audience presentations encouraging compassion and vegan living, in over 50 countries worldwide and in all 50 U.S. states.
Visionary leaders from Ecuador, Yoshi and Pola have dedicated over a decade to Regenerative Culture - a movement integrating ancient wisdom with modern practices for holistic regeneration.
Yoshi serves as a Regenerative Culture Advocate, Ceremonialist, Speaker, Community Builder, Permaculture Designer, Plant-Based Vegan Chef, Multi-Talent Artist, and Podcast Host.
Pola brings her expertise as a Ceremonialist, Mentor of Sacred Femininity, Alchemist Plant Chef & Herbal Artisan, Holistic Health Educator, Permaculture Designer, Multi-Talent Artist, Midwifery Student, and
Regenerative Culture Advocate.
Their philosophy centers on optimizing all aspects of existence - physical, metaphysical, and spiritual - for the benefit of all living beings. They emphasize reconnecting with Mother Earth's natural systems, from circadian rhythms to food-soil-water cycles and the spiritual journey from birth to death.
Additionally, Yoshi's & Pola's work focuses on hands-on community experiences, facilitating deep - radical life transformation for small and large groups. Their project is called "Seeds of Consciousness", a series of Regenerative Culture Retreats.
Regenerating cultures across Ecuador, Mexico, and the United States, Yoshi and Pola embody the ancient Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor while co-creating with many partner communities holistic-regenerative systems independent of government and corporate control - inspiring more people toward regenerative living, one community at a time.
