Fondo Natural: A Healing Vision for a Wounded Land

Though modern society places immense weight on collective forces and public opinion, my experience with the Fondo Natural project taught me something more essential: that one individual—when aligned with a deep inner vision—can become a powerful catalyst for social and cultural transformation. That inner vision was shaped by the archetype of the Solar Warrior, whose mission is not to impose change from above, but to integrate conflict—internal and external—into a path of meaning, unity, and renewal.
The Fondo Natural project emerged in my imagination in 2003, but its origins trace back to a collective trauma: the Prestige oil tanker spill of 2002. This ecological disaster devastated Galicia’s marine environment, but it also left a psychic scar on its people—many of whom feel a deep-rooted connection to the land and sea, born of an ancient Pagan and Celtic heritage, a Celtic heritage excellently exposed in the Compass Rose, below the Tower of Hercules.

Where the Earth meets the Eternal —
the Compass Rose beneath the Tower of Hercules,
origin point of a vision seeking
to heal the bonds between land, sea, and spirit

That ancestral bond with nature was desecrated, and I felt, in a deeply personal way, the need for healing—both for myself and for Galicia. Out of this impulse, I envisioned Fondo Natural as a form of cultural regeneration—an integration of science, technology, and the spiritual-cultural values rooted in Galician identity. Unlike many sustainability projects that ignore the symbolic and psychological dimensions of ecology, Fondo Natural was inherently educative. It sought not only to restore land or mitigate damage, but to reawaken a collective consciousness—a renewed cultural soul in harmony with nature and technology alike.

Original footage from the Fondo Natural project (2003–2006)
a cultural and ecological vision born from inner necessity
and rooted in the Galician soul.

To my astonishment, the project gained momentum as if by a kind of natural law. People appeared almost synchronously at every step—individuals from corporate, academic, and artistic fields who resonated with the vision. By 2006, the project had reached the top cultural and economic circles of Galicia and was officially budgeted at 40 million euros. The bank that financed the project at that time, Caixa Galicia was planning to purchase the legendary Cies Islands, aiming to empower as the most pristine symbol of the project.

the project gained momentum as if by a kind of natural law

But this ascent met an invisible wall.
Entrenched political and administrative networks—largely disconnected from cultural authenticity—refused to support it. Meanwhile, media attention and funding were diverted to other state-sponsored initiatives, like the City of Culture, a project that proved financially disastrous and culturally hollow.
At first, I experienced the collapse of Fondo Natural as a failure. But time revealed something deeper. The project had already fulfilled its most important mission: it had awakened my understanding of cultural synthesis, and it purified my attention from artificial concerns—those dictated by politics, vanity, or distraction. It clarified my path as a writer and thinker.
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine wrote in Is Future Given? (2003):

“The role of individuals is more important than ever.
Few particles can alter the macroscopic organization
in the whole of nature”

In those years, I became a devoted reader of Prigogine’s work because I needed to understand what I was witnessing: the improbable momentum of an idea, flowing against the currents of an industrializing world. Fondo Natural seemed to act like a chain reaction, revealing that when the individual is aligned with a genuine, integrative archetype—such as the Solar Warrior—the ripple effect can transcend all expectations.
Initially I considered the outcome of my initiative a failure, but soon I understood it became a great chance to cleanse my mind of artificial problems, of political problems that are out of my reach, and focus in what is important. And because of this my literary works, challenges to science and Guinness World Records are the natural outcome of such experience.

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