The distinctive red-rock formations and hauntingly beautiful high-desert scenery of Coconino National Forest draw travelers to Sedona, no doubt, but it’s an ineffable something that spiritualists have ...

Before the nighttime crust had evaporated from my still sleepy eyes, we boarded I-10 heading north on a day trip that would require both swimming suits and sweaters. We had heard that to the north in ...

Laurie Gough is the author of "Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey" (Travelers' Tales, 1999). She lives in Ontario, Canada My first impression of Sedona was that this peculiar ...

There was no way I was going to pay a guide to tell me how to feel. And given that this feeling was supposed to overtake me upon reaching a "general vicinity," not a specific set of GPS coordinates, ...

SEDONA, Ariz. – I suppose I shouldn’t have taken the parking attendant’s advice so literally. “You’ll know it when you feel it,” he had told me when I asked where I’d find the vortex. I had traveled ...

Sedona, Arizona, is best known for two things: the stunning red-rock landscape, which draws thousands each year for hiking and mountain biking, and its vortex energy, a contested phenomenon that has ...

The hills around Sedona, Arizona, are a magnet for new-age enthusiasts and psychic healers because of their purported vortexes, or psychic-energy sites. But these spiritual seekers don't have this ...

Whether far-right, far-left, or just plain far out of this world, Arizona seems to have a magnetic attraction to those on the fringes of society. True believers claim vortexes radiate special energy ...