Planetary Networks
The Lost River Valleys of Idaho had a 7.3 earthquake in October, 1983, with over 400 after-shocks in the first three days alone. Talk about “unstable equilibrium”! After the quakes, my pharmacist friend, Peggy and I felt that something enclosed beneath the geographical area around Arco had been released by the earthquakes. Peggy was studying the Middle East and ancient Egyptian pyramids while I was investigating Mexican, Native American and Moundbuilder pyramid, temples. Both of us absorbed everything we could find on Tibetan and Southwestern Native American sites as well. Neither of us was sure why we were doing this, but we felt that old, mysterious Seekers’ drive. We just “had” to find out something.
Then Peggy discovered that when we drew lines on the world globe between the sites we had studied, they formed a series of equilateral triangles connected in a belt extending around the world near the Tropic of Cancer, from fifteen to thirty-five degrees, north latitude. Jane, friend and neighbor, confided she felt odd sensations when driving past the three huge, pyramidal buttes__ now inactive volcanic craters, rising abruptly from the Arco high desert flatness. Peggy and I had had similar feelings and our curiosity intensified.
North American Vortices
The end of December that year, I went alone into the southern California Mohave desert to meditate. On a high ridge, I sat on a rock, closed my eyes, opened to the planetary grid and asked Spirit to send whatever was appropriate for the moment. Ten minutes later, I opened my eyes again and was startled to observe an entirely different scene than when I first sat down. In front of me rose a huge, horizontal ridge of red rock towers, with pine trees and shrubs. “What’s this?” I inquired of my inner self, who replied: “You will be in Sedona before the season is out.” The red rocks dissolved, and the Mohave desert browns came back in focus. June, too, was intuitively sent to Sedona, which had become a mecca for artists, psychics, geomancers and healers.
Hal and I had been in Sedona ten years earlier on the art show and gallery circuit when it was known primarily as an art center. After visiting the galleries and shops that year, we drove up Oak Creek Canyon, a favorite spot for local painters. I sat directly on the ground and worked on a watercolor there until near dark. I felt a mystical, soothing energy about the place and came away refreshed in some indefinable way__ as if I had absorbed something from deep within those red rocks.
This was before I knew about Sedona’s powerful vortices. In fact, Oak Creek Canyon was the first__ it’s purpose was for attuning to Mother Earth. Now-a-days, people come from around the world to visit the astounding beauty of the red rock formations and experience the sacred healing powers and time portals of the numerous vortices. Oak Creek Canyon was devastated by wildfires in 2006, purifying it for use as a sacred site where people gather to live in the New Reality.
The 1994 visit to Sedona began with our arrival on March 21st, the Vernal Equinox. We found June and George at the Dead Horse Ranch State Park, but its RV campground was full. We would have to go into town to the Wal-Mart parking lot for the night, then bring the rig back by 8 AM in hopes that someone had vacated a space__ but there were three outfits ahead of us on the waiting list. After visiting our friends in the campground for about an hour, a ranger appeared to tell us we were “the luckiest campers he’d ever seen”. Some poor fellow had become ill with recurring malaria and left for home. Since we were already there with our rig, we were given his space.
It was a beautiful resort along the Verde River, comfortable and convenient. Huge pine trees towered among pink and rose-red rocks, wildlife and birds darted through the underbrush, and at night, the old, cliff-side, mining town of Jerome glimmered two thousand feet above us, like a mothership hovering beneath a canopy of stars.
The largest vortex ever seen in the Sedona area was then developing in Sycamore Canyon between Cottonwood and Sedona, only a few miles from our campsite__ this was why we were here. I got little sleep that night; information about future technologies poured into my awareness for hours.
A Creativity Vortex
We moved back to Gooding, Idaho in 1998. Magic Valley in south-central Idaho, with its Creativity Vortex had an uncommonly large percentage of resident artists and innovators. The Sage Brush Art Guild of painters, began in the 1950's and recently moved from producing only material artforms to also creating on higher levels. They donated funds and found public exhibition space for school art classes, collected and sent a truckload of art and school supplies to war-torn Iraqi school children, donated art books to libraries, provided free or low cost art instruction to local artists and volunteered as after-school, enrichment-program art teachers at the elementary school. They have supervised the annual Gooding County Art Exhibit, open to all Idaho artists, for over thirty-five years. In March, 2007, the Sage Brush Artists merged with the Snake River Artisans group of crafters to share meeting space and asistance and exhibition space with the County Art Exhibit.
The "Eye" (center) of this Creativity Vortex sits at Thousand Springs near Hagerman, Idaho, where the Snake River Aquifer waters from the Lost Rivers tumble from the black lava canyon walls into the lower Snake River. There, the international organization, The Nature Conservancy, conducts experiments in water purification using only native wetland plants. They succeeded in returning the chemical-laden irrigation runoff from the north side of the canyon to 98% purity before it returned to the Snake River. They hold an Art Festival every autumn to raise funds.
Since we returned to Gooding, Idaho, a University of the Arts has been established in Sun Valley, Idaho with its subsidiary, the Western States College of Performing Arts and Humanities centered at the old Schubert Theater Opera House in Gooding. It offered classes in the Performing Arts, Film Technologies, Professional Wrestling, Feng Shui and Healing Arts. They frequently showed mystical and alternative movies such as "Indigo" and "Indigo Evolution" plus films the college itself created. They hosted an afternoon session with Kryon and featured well-known musical groups. Not bad, for a town of only 3500 people. In 2007, the college relocated 35 miles away to Twin Falls, Idaho, more centrally located in Magic Valley. The old theater is still used by performing musicians, actors and for local cultural events.
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