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Sedona, pt.4
Sunday
Before we headed out of Sedona we wanted to find at least one of the so-called "vortex" spots. The most famous and accessable is known as the Airport Vortex. Originally located right on the runway of the airport, this proved inconvenient and unsafe for planes and Vortex-lovers alike, so sometime in the late Eighties a large group of spiritually inclined people sat on the runway and "moved" the vortex so that it is now located in a far safer location. I don't make 'em up-- I just pass 'em along...
We were lucky: there was a kid who was dowsing for the vortex (he must have been about eight). Rondo had no idea what he was doing, so he kept a suspicious eye on the kid:
The center of the vortex (it drifts a little all the time) was apparently here . I'm kind of a Mulder on this thing: I haven't seen anything to convince me yet, but I -want- to believe. My foot did feel better that it had earlier. Go fig.
The Airport Vortex -is- where I finally realized why I had been so enchanted with the area: it was another sci-fi moment (like the windmill farm). Sedona is -exactly- how I'd always pictured a terraformed Mars ! The red soil and rocks make a striking base for the blue sky and green trees. C'mon-- can't you picture it? Mars colonized!
This could be a colony .
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While JC was taking pictures and interviewing the family of the boy who was dowsing, Rondo and I took a walk on the loop trail. As we walked past the vortex spot, Rondo had a sudden revelation.
" No, Rondo, NO! Not on the Vortex!!!"
Rondo: " Vortex works for me! "
Before we headed out of Sedona we wanted to find at least one of the so-called "vortex" spots. The most famous and accessable is known as the Airport Vortex. Originally located right on the runway of the airport, this proved inconvenient and unsafe for planes and Vortex-lovers alike, so sometime in the late Eighties a large group of spiritually inclined people sat on the runway and "moved" the vortex so that it is now located in a far safer location. I don't make 'em up-- I just pass 'em along...
We were lucky: there was a kid who was dowsing for the vortex (he must have been about eight). Rondo had no idea what he was doing, so he kept a suspicious eye on the kid:
The center of the vortex (it drifts a little all the time) was apparently here . I'm kind of a Mulder on this thing: I haven't seen anything to convince me yet, but I -want- to believe. My foot did feel better that it had earlier. Go fig.
The Airport Vortex -is- where I finally realized why I had been so enchanted with the area: it was another sci-fi moment (like the windmill farm). Sedona is -exactly- how I'd always pictured a terraformed Mars ! The red soil and rocks make a striking base for the blue sky and green trees. C'mon-- can't you picture it? Mars colonized!
This could be a colony .
(/geekmode)
While JC was taking pictures and interviewing the family of the boy who was dowsing, Rondo and I took a walk on the loop trail. As we walked past the vortex spot, Rondo had a sudden revelation.
" No, Rondo, NO! Not on the Vortex!!!"
Rondo: " Vortex works for me! "
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(I know it mostly as the interactive studio firetrap I worked at with Roz and Tracy when I first got to L.A. ...)
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This is a decent description of what a vortex is. They're something about energy and magnetic-healing things. You're supposed to feel particularly enervated around them.
I skimmed a book about them in Sedona and one thing stood out: the book emphasized that it was extremely important to go to the vortex with a positive, expectant frame of mind for the vortex to be most effective (so you can see where -that's- going). However, I was serious when I said that my plantar fasciitus felt better after standing around one.
I thought the intereactive firetrap company was called, "Zortex"?? (heh.)
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*grin*
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The landscapes out there are stunning. I need to get out to Arizona again. I was there as a kid, but need to explore it as an adult.
Nice photos and fun pictures of the dog, again. Do you have any information on what this Vortex is supposed to be? It sounds like new age silliness or pseudoscience, but that's always fun to read about.
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