LOCATION: Sedona, Arizona
On Saturday, October 26, 2024, The New York Times' "Travel" section had an article with this title (online): "In Sedona, a Psychic and a Skeptic Walk Into a Vortex." Erin Vivid Riley, the author of the article, is the "skeptic" mentioned in the headline. Her mother is the other person, identified as a "psychic." A "vortex," by the way, is said to be a place "where energy flows into or out of the earth."
I have never been to Sedona, and I had no idea that Sedona (population under 10,000) is a place where something like three million people come to visit, every year, many of them coming to find what amounts to a "portal" into a different, spiritual reality. I guess I am probably aligning myself with Erin Riley, on the "skeptic" side, but being "skeptical" doesn't mean that one won't give it a shot.
Erin "gave it a shot." She was not convinced, but.... what Erin did more or less confess to was the reality of "Awe," which she defined as "being in the presence of something vast that transcends our understanding of the world."
"Awe" gets my vote! It's hard to disagree that we live, always, and in every moment, whether we are in Sedona, Arizona or somewhere else, in a place in which we must acknowledge that we are "in the presence of something vast that transcends our understanding...."
You might try to picture, here, that well-known image of "Earth From Space." You might also want to reference my favorite contemporary spirit guide, Bob Dylan, who reports on something vast that truly does transcend our understanding. As Dylan says, that's "Life and Life Only!"
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