Thursday, October 22, 2009

The "New Age" community

I don't live too far from Sedona and go there to Mt. Bike from time to time. Years ago some strange hippie-types said there were these "vortex" areas of energy in Sedona and from then on Sedona has been a hot-bed of "new-age" activity.

I can attest to the strange vortex energy in Sedona, because my wife and I have gotten turned around and confused several times while riding trails in the area.

The town of Sedona is very focused on tourism, lots of cheesy t-shirt shops and galleries with very over-priced art and bad restaurants that serve frozen food and claim it to be fresh, bad, bad, bad.

Then you have guys like this: James Arthur Ray, a nationally known New Age guru.

Mr. Ray charges people tons of money to go to Sedona for a retreat and then tries to kill them!

Jim Jones, David Koresh and James A. Ray what is it going to take for someone to shut this buffoon down?

Read more of the story in the New York Times

1 comment:

Sean Smith said...

that's too bad...the last time I was in Sedona was probably 25 years ago and I guess it hadn't been cheesed up then.....it looked like a cool place...I guess they ruin everything with tourist stuff