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Though local boosters make much of its setting,
amid some definitive Southwestern canyon scenery, the New Age
resort of SEDONA adds to the beauty of its surroundings.
Architecturally, it includes several miles of redbrick interrupted
by the occasional mock-historical mall. To the artists, healers,
walking wounded and wealthy retirees who have flocked here in
the last two decades, however, Sedona is "the next Santa
Fe." Whether you love it or not, it will probably depend
on whether you share their wide-eyed awe for angels, crystals
and all matters mystical and whether you're prepared to pay over-the-odds
prices for the privilege of joining them.
Established in 1902 by one Theodore Schnebly, and
named after his wife, Sedona remained for most of the twentieth
century a small farming settlement, unmarked on most maps. German
surrealist painter Max Ernst moved here in the 1940s the bizarre
backdrops of his later canvases seem less surreal once you've
seen where they were painted and Hollywood movie-makers filmed
in the area from the 1950s onward. However, Sedona's big break
came in 1981, when Page Bryant, author and psychic, "channeled"
the information that Sedona is in fact "the heart chakra
of the planet." Since she pinpointed her first vortex
a point at which, it is claimed, psychic and electromagnetic energies
can be channeled for personal and planetary harmony the town has
achieved its own personal growth, and blossomed as a focus for
New Age practitioners of all kinds.
If you don't have much time to spend exploring,
a cruise along US-89A enables you to see most of the sights, albeit
from a distance; the best parts are south along Hwy-179 within
Coconino National Forest. The closest vortex
to town is on Airport Mesa ; turn left up Airport
Road from US-89A as you head south, about a mile past the downtown
junction known as the "Y" . The vortex
is at the junction of the second and third peaks, just after the
cattle grid. Further up, beyond the precariously sited airport,
the Shrine of the Red Rocks looks out across
the entire valley.
