Sedona Vortexes

Four spots in the red rocks where, practitioners report, the compass of the body spins. The New Age's field laboratory — and, note the mappers, another node on the grid the old temples sit on.

Sedona vortexes: the claim that specific sites among Sedona's red rocks emit energy that amplifies consciousness — mapped and named largely by psychic Page Bryant in 1980, industrialized after the 1987 Harmonic Convergence. Documented: no anomalous fields measured; a real, large wellness economy (millions of visitors; the city's own tourism materials name the vortexes); and the sites' prior sacredness to Yavapai-Apache peoples, whose framing differs from the retail version. The economics of the awakening cluster in one zip code: belief as documented land value.