Peaceful Village Raw Vegan Healing Community is a newly formed, unique, and semi-private small intentional community located in the northern Amazonian tropical jungles of the place called ecuador.

The concept of Peaceful Village started in 2014 by Michael Lanfield, who wanted to be part of a vegan intentional community living in the tropics. Eight years later, in 2022, with his partner Aurora, they finally acquired a raw and undeveloped physical land of more than 21 hectares in the Amazonian jungle with three pristine rivers, streams, waterfalls, cascades, and breathtaking mountain views and forest areas. They started building the infrastructures and planting our food on a small part of land that they call Tierra Libertad (Freedom Land), which is probably no larger than two or three hectares in size. Meanwhile, people here are planting and maintaining the food forest and gardens and building the facilities needed to operate the community.

Currently the community consists of just two founding community members, with volunteers and guests coming to stay with us.
Also, at this time, our community does not have full kitchen facilities. In the communal areas (with the exception of the section we call Tierra Libertad, closest to the road), all food must be raw (uncooked). Cooked meals may be prepared and eaten only in private spaces. More about this here.

Community members are nonconformists and anarchists at heart, living as sovereign human Earthling beings in harmony with each other and the natural world around them. Here, no one domestics or owns nonhuman animals as everyone values the freedom of every being. Learn more about Peaceful Village’s Core Values and Birthrights.

People at Peaceful Village have the sole purpose to live together as like-minded spiritual souls in an intentional community, while individually and collectively working together to holistically heal themselves and helping others to heal from their past traumas and wounds, promoting vegan and raw vegan, non-conforming, and anarchist ways of living through a variety of events and retreats. In the future, they plan to teach people how to create similar healing communities.

Mission
An intentional community where we all live life to the fullest guided by our hearts, natural laws, and a set of core values and birthrights, holistically healing and growing spiritually as a soul family. Coexisting in harmony with animals and the natural surroundings, we exercise sovereignty and independence, living off-grid, growing our own food veganically, obtaining water from the rain, rivers, and streams, building ecologically and sustainably, and having alternative energy sources. As a soul family, we learn from one another and Nature, and through observation, helping and sharing, and enjoying beautiful and memorable moments together.

Vision
A way of living where human beings together in communion with each other, free-roaming animals, and Mother Nature, experiences unconditional love, optimal health, bliss, freedom, and abundance, which are our natural states of being. We envision a network of communities, where people are barefoot and naked, as a joyful soul family and Eden Fruitarians.12 Simple living is here, immersing ourselves in the beauty and abundance of Nature while embracing the uniqueness and existence of everyone through our experiences and interactions with them.
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Not only does PV stand for Peaceful Village, but also “Private Community”. Even though we promote and openly share our community and the way we live – a more natural, vegan, raw vegan, nonconformist, and anarchist way – we are a very private community. There are certain people, megacorporations, and governments who want to see such communities disband – to cease to exist. Governments also employ undercover agents as community members, and pay them tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to be part of the community to see that it eventually dissolves. And even though we don’t financially make a huge negative impact on these entities, they don’t want us around. They would rather have us enslaved like the rest of the people who live in towns and cities, working in useless jobs that do nothing for our spiritual growth and well-being. We are a nonviolent, peaceful community of people, intending to do the least harm and the most good, transitioning away from society to a life in Nature, striving for complete self-sustainability with our food, water, housing, electricity, etc. Therefore, we are careful how and what we share about Peaceful Village with others. That is why we don’t freely share our handbook and other more anarchist ways of being with just anyone, but with selected people who complete one of the online applications and attend our center.

Learn how you can be part of the community and live at Peaceful Village Raw Vegan Healing Community.

A Brief Overview of Peaceful Village

• People within the community are planting fruit orchards and gardens, reforesting the land, and striving to become fully self-sustainable.
• Creating the infrastructures needed to operate and live within the community.
• Community members are nonconformists and anarchists at heart, living as sovereign human beings.
• Everyone at Peaceful Village values the freedom of every being, and therefore, they do not own or domestic nonhuman animals.
• Individually and collectively, people work together to holistically heal themselves while helping guide others to heal from their past traumas and wounds.
• Events, classes, and retreats to promote a more natural way of eating and living.

Our Intentions and Areas of Focus

1. Community Living

• Being with like-minded people who share the same values and similar lifestyles.
• Holistically healing together through a variety of group activities like meditation, yoga, and gratitude prayers, for example.
• Sharing food that we grow and material items with people who are in the community.
• Sharing our skills and talents.
• Spending good times together playing music and singing, or sharing meals in rawlucks/fruitlucks.
• Helping one another when in need.
• Decision-making and meetings.

2. Self-sustainability

• Growing our food veganically, without the use of chemicals or animal inputs like manure, blood meal, bone meal, fish meal, feather meal, etc., or the use of domesticated animals on the land.
• Running water from natural sources, such as rain, is available within the communal areas.
• People in the community have shelter to sleep and rest, and from the extremes of rain and the harsh sun.
• We´ve integrated alternative energy from solar power and super high-speed fiber optic internet (300 Mbps) in one area of the land.

Other aspects within the community that are not necessary for our living, but are needed to transition to complete self-sustainable life.

• Clothes, shoes, and laundry facilities are or may be needed when we go to town or out of the community.
• There may be other miscellaneous things that we need to utilize, like the use of money or transportation.

3. Holistic Healing

• Emphasizing the importance of the consumption of raw vegan foods, especially focusing on fruits, at their natural ambient temperature, not frozen or hot.
• Healing Center – an alternative to a hospital that is in Peaceful Village Raw Vegan Healing Community for a natural approach to healing all aspects of ourselves (physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually). We currently don´t have the full facilities for this, but we will best accommodate people who are in the program.
• We also spiritually heal ourselves through a variety of spiritual activities and events.
• We live and connect to Nature, with beautiful forested areas and three pristine rivers, instead of being in towns and cities receiving all the radiation from cell and electricity towers, artificial noise, and pollution. We don’t work full-time, going to useless jobs, and therefore, we have more time for healing and spiritual growth through meditation and being with our families.

4. Conservation of Nature

• Designated areas that are untouchable native forests on Peaceful Village land.
• Protection of our three majestic rivers and streams.
• Selectively cutting only the necessary trees (like the ones that are dying, those that are leaning to one side as if they look like they will fall within a short period, and young ones that are not endangered or as useful), and reforesting the areas with fruit trees and other native plants. We never cut forests that are on a slope connected to a river or road.
• Conscious living by not using any chemical products on our land, such as shampoos, lotions, makeup, perfumes, cleaning products, and laundry detergents. Currently, we don´t know of a more permanent natural solution to deter or combat Termites, Ants, and Wasps attacking our building constructions, so we are still using borax and petroleum (gasoline and oil) methods until we find better solutions and building construction methods. We´re doing our best to figure out better ways to build constructions that last longer and don´t need chemicals to treat. We honestly don´t like using any chemicals, but currently we have to deal with insect infestation issues.

5. Exercising Our Natural Birthrights

• Our heart yearns to live truly free and in harmony with all life, transitioning away from society and culture.
• We are learning how to best exercise our birthrights and follow natural laws, living as sovereign beings. We do this through online research and from our physical experience, disobeying unjust and repressive human/government laws whenever feasible.
• We’re starting to make connections with like-minded people and communities.
  

6. Sharing Our Way of Living

• Promoting veganism, raw veganism, non-conformity, anarchism, veganic (vegan organic) way of growing food and living, and how to create similar communities, through a variety of events, classes, and retreats at our community and online.