Nov 14 2007
SEDONA, ARIZONA
Sedona was always like all small towns somewhere in America, but in 1987 everything changed. That was the year the harmonic convergence was to occur, about 5000 new-agers flocked to Sedona hoping for worldwide manifestation of love and harmony. On the material day they all converged at Bell Rock and waited for a U.F.O. to appear, like all such events none appeared but most of the new agers stayed on. Up to this day extraterrestrials still have a major impact on the lives of the locals; ask how many of them have ever been abducted by aliens and there are many who will put up their hands. The new-age crowd blended in well with the locals; the locals didn’t seem to their crazy ways.
For years Sedona has long attracted people out on a spiritual journey, Native Americans have worshiped here for centuries, in fact the Tonto Apache were the last group here, they were driven out by the US army in 1870 after gold was discovered nearby. There are still well preserved rock paintings in the area.
One of the best ways to see Sedona’s in famous landscape is to take a jeep tour. The local guides are very conversant with the area’s history and its fauna and flora. Majority of the jeep-tour companies are sincerely conservation-minded: they use the approved trails and they always alert the Forest Service about jeeps or motorbikes that don’t. The native Americans and the new-agers were not the only ones drawn to Sedona; Hollywood too has come knocking, John Wayne’s “Angel and the Badman” (1947) and James Stewart movie “Broken Arrow” (1950), were all shot here, Al-Pacino also owns a home in this town.
