I went to Sedona because I’d been told about its stunning scenic beauty by several people when they had heard about my Photo Odyssey, saying Sedona was a ‘must see’ area to photograph that in many ways was even more beautiful than the Grand Canyon.
Having now seen both places, I have to agree. What the region around Sedona lacks in sheer size and grandeur compared to the Grand Canyon, it makes up for with accessibility. It is a tragedy though that this beauty is being marred by human ‘development’ and wasn’t protected decades ago by being made a national park, but that’s a topic which is sadly too late for discussion.
However, what no one told me about Sedona until I got there was the other side of it - the spiritual, paranormal, psychic, and supernatural attributes given to the red rock geological formations there.
I don’t consider myself a closed-minded person, although I’m comfortable with the spiritual beliefs I have and won’t go into them here as this isn’t the time or place for them, but I will say that over the span of human history, mankind has assigned these attributes to things it didn’t understand at the time and I can’t help but think in this case that history is repeating itself.
One thing I do know for certain since I’ve seen evidence of them myself, having successfully dowsed for underground water and buried pipes many times, is there are forces in the earth that have yet to be understood. To me, these are simply invisible natural forces and have no more spiritual, paranormal, psychic, or supernatural qualities than similar forces such as magnetism and gravity, two forces we see evidence of but even with today’s technology don’t have a complete understanding of them.
In saying this, I’m not trying to knock or ridicule anyone’s spiritual beliefs (hey, whatever works for them and gives them peace and happiness is fine by me), but to explain to those who wonder, why I saw only the unique and awe-inspiring beauty of Sedona and was happy with that.
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