The Sacred Forest of the Spring Water

By Fernando Davalos

A peaceful urban forest that gives life to its city is in danger to lose even more land due to the unquenchable voracity of real state developers and the passivity of the local authorities. Agustin and Paloma the tireless and determined spiritual ecologists and their new formed group, "Don Uriel" decide to help the forest performing a work of spiritual ecology as the only way to protect it. They will attempt to create an energy belt of protection in the periphery of this big green lung of the city performing ritual walks around it. In their ingenuity they were far to imagine the huge proportions of accomplishing a feat of this magnitude but their honest motivation attracted the powerful help of a heavenly ally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fernando Davalos
• Release date: Jan 8, 2017
• ISBN: 9781988727035

Fernando Davalos

Fernando Davalos PhD is an Architect, Homeopath, and Holistic Educator who had fortunate contacts and work experiences with elders of the indigenous traditions of México and the American continent that were a definite influence on his actual path. For the last years he has worked in different capacities at Mount Royal University, and the University of Calgary where he obtained a Doctorate degree in Education.

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Chapter 1

Early Morning

It was six o'clock in the morning. The Sacred Forest of the Stream Water began to wake up. A little frozen by the prevailing cold, two members of the group Don Uriel, Paloma with several months of pregnancy and Agustín her husband, initiated activities after giving at home the last instructions to their children Vicente and Ignacio who would be going a little later to their junior high school located only two blocks away.

After arriving to Los Colomos forest, the couple briefly prayed before an imposing tree located in its most sacred core. Paloma discovered this green elder in the past during the numerous occasions they visited the forest to exercise. Afterwards, Paloma and Agustin started their walk in a rush just when the first rays of the sun appeared behind the high tops of the forest trees. It was important to hurry and avoid the peculiar glances towards their white clothes and red strips on their heads from the first early risers’ who would appear soon to exercise in the forest.

As they walked, Agustin was silently recalling in his mind the events that brought them to the forest in that chilly morning and to this particular new adventure:

During our past works of spiritual ecology, - he remembered - we performed ritual long walks on our way to the Zapopan cathedral, and with the group, New Way visited this beautiful place, the forest of Los Colomos.

In those occasions, Paloma and I perceived certain emanations of sadness in the forest, as if it were asking for some type of aid before the negligence and abandonment in which it stayed.

This special place was in an imminent danger to lose still more of its already reduced territory to the hands of the unquenchable voracity of developers of exclusive neighborhoods for whom the forest of Los Colomos was only one more opportunity for personal profit. In 1902, works took place for the construction of its famous castle and for the improvement, storage and water conduction of its abundant springs for the benefit of the inhabitants of the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.

In less than a century and although there are registries of its existence since 1597, this wonderful ecosystem, the most important green lung of a high forestry value for his flora and fauna, climatic regulator and main zone of water harvesting for the city of Guadalajara, have lost 132 hectares. More than half of its original extension of 248 hectares disappeared due to illegal invasions and construction of residences product of strong pressures exerted on the forest by real estate companies and developers.

Its present extension corresponds to a fifth part of the Sacred Forest of Chapultepec of Mexico City being the river basin of Los Colomos, the largest hydrological river basin of the city of Guadalajara. However, Los Colomos is the object of frequent threats for its survival before the unwillingness to act of the municipal authorities that along with the state government act as if they were the owners of this forested area. They keep authorizing building permits that ignore federal and state laws, international agreements, and approved planning, placing in constant danger these areas that receive an important amount of rain that infiltrates and recharges its reserves of subsoil water and supplies its hydrological river basin.

In order to be of assistance to