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Sedona Culture
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Since the 1980s, when Sedona
became the vortex capital of the planet (and beyond), New Agers
have settled there in droves, impressing their unique signature
upon the city in numerous ways. It is common to hear, in passing,
locals discussing the latest crop circles and extra-terrestrial
sightings with the same nonchalance with which they’d
talk about the weather. A quick perusal of the phone book will
turn up channelers, psychic surgeons, clairvoyants, |
numerologists, acupressurists, crystal healers, herbologists, and
other practitioners of holistic medicine. The theme for all these
odd practices, it should be pointed out, is health. Therefore, even
if the things listed are not to your taste, the New Age presence,
though conspicuous, is basically benign and unobtrusive, making a
point of toleration for whatever your beliefs may be.
Sedona also fosters a cottage industry of painters whose work,
though not cheap, is available everywhere throughout the city. In
the city’s outskirts, usually down private dirt drives, live
wealthy Americans drawn to the isolation and beauty of the red rocks.
And in the city, because tourism is really the only other large
business, there is a small, diverse blue-collar constituency. Although
Sedona has a rich Native American heritage, this is little in evidence
now, except where it has been gringo-ized for tourist consumption.
The city is mostly white.
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