Stirring up a Vortex

Arizona's town of Sedona gets all the credit from the New Age crowd on its power vortexes, claiming four or more of them. A vortex is an opening to the heavens or higher planes and its supposed to make things easier to communicate with the Other Side and make yourself more spiritually open when you're in the presence of one of them. There's lots of nanu-nanu hoodoo associated with vortexes but it doesn't mean in order to feel one you have to be wearing tie dye and dreadlocks.

I sort of think that Apache Leap and the surrounding mountains of the old Silver King Mine and areas of the Magma Mine are mighty rich in the powerful vortexes. You don't have to be specially 'sensitive' psychically to feel the vibrations of this place. We took a walk up Queen Creek today, past the remains of the old Silver Queen mine and the beginnings of the old Magma mine. It's a gorgeous amble past burbling streams and majestic white barked cottonwoods still waiting for the spring greenery to leaf them out. On both sides of the canyon wall you can see scabs of mine tunnels or boring holes and other man-made efforts to dig out the treasure from these mountains. It's enough to get me hot to learn more about the rocks and pebbles strewn underfoot to know what is what and what's valuable or not.

But atop these same mountains, ablaze in the red afternoon sun were these towering peaks of dripping red rocks, looking like dripping candles ablaze on an overloaded birthday cake. And you can't stare at these peaks very long without feeling the power in them. There's a lightness you feel around them, a lessening of your worries and fears, sort of like a big hand said, "Here. Drop your load here and I'll take it up for you." Maybe it's 'cause they are so large, you feel so small below them, but it doesn't make you feel inconsequential. Not at all. If you close your eyes and ponder the feeling these mountains give off while you're standing in their shadows, it's enough to make you feel like you are Superman and you can accomplish whatever you set forth. I guess it's that sort of vortex. Sort of a vitamin-enriched one. It's pretty heady, actually.

I don't know if you can bottle this stuff. Probably not. But if you could feel what I'm feeling, it's pretty impressive. So maybe Sedona won't be the only town in Arizona for making people feel the vibrations. Maybe they'll start making the trek up to Superior to see for themselves what the people who make this town their home have known all along. Maybe I should be the one to keep my Big Mouth shut and not let the secret out. But mainly, I just want to share. This secret's too good to keep to oneself!