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The Healing Power of Sedona |
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Note this article originally ran in Master of Life magazine -- Issue 43. Sedona -- the name conjures up images of magic and mystery. Thousands of metaphysically oriented people have come to Sedona to attend Dick Sutphen's Psychic Seminar, and have experienced exciting enhancements of their latent psychic abilities. The sense of peace and serenity, the enhancement of psychic abilities, the easy camaraderie of like-minded people, and the sheer beauty of the surrounding countryside are some of the reasons people respond to the pull of Sedona. In previous issues, we have focused on the psychic manifestations almost everyone experiences in the seminar. The following accounts are tales of the healing powers of the vortexes that participants have eagerly related -- healing both sought and unsought, as the gift of the spirits of the vortexes or resulting from the realignment of energy restoring the harmonious balance within the body. Edgar Cayce viewed balanced body energies as crucial to good health: "The human body is made up of electronic vibration, with each atom and element of the body, each organ and organism of same, having the electronic vibration necessary for the sustenance of and equilibrium in that particular organism." Recent findings have repeatedly affirmed the link between mind and health. And in the last decade or two, there has been a large-scale turning away from traditional, symptom-oriented medicine toward preventive and holistic medicine, with its emphasis on healing as an innate, latent capacity of the integrated mind-body waiting to be released or unblocked. ______________ Healing Letters Second Anniversary Two years ago today, I arrived in Sedona just a few short days before the Psychic Seminar. I came for a number of reasons. Having had five throat operations, with a promise of more to come, I needed a healing. I was desperate! My marriage was also in the process of breaking up. I had no support in my beliefs whatsoever and I longed for a new start. Indeed, I became like new! A healing on my throat took place in Boynton Canyon. In meditation, I was led to an Indian spirit of Boynton Canyon. Upon asking for a healing, I made a vow to work for Mother Earth in exchange, I was so grateful, yet knew nothing of Earth work at the time. At the Airport Mesa vortex, I sat in the car with a friend of mine. We watched the view of Sedona at night. The energy was unusually high. I felt strange, as if something were waiting for the right moment to take over. Reaching out, I took my friend's hand. The moment I touched it, we both felt a huge jolt of energy go through us, like an electric shock. I immediately felt rearranged, as if my cellular structure had completely changed. It was one of many turning points I reached throughout that week. Your seminar was as wonderful as I had hoped it would be. My psychic abilities turned out to be greater than I could have ever imagined. And what the participants at the seminar shared was precious -- the love, the understanding and the support -- and gave me a new perspective on life! During the first week back in Seattle, my co-workers teased me about changing so drastically. My attitude changed, my appearance ... my whole being shined with a new light. I began to write poems, which were published in the local Northwestern metaphysical paper. It felt good to have a sense of expression without fearing what others would think. My love of Mother Earth grew intensely by the time the Harmonic Convergence came that summer. I wrote more and more articles about our relationships to Mother Earth and to each other. And by November, I found a woman who taught me shamanism. Now it is a way of life for me; I would live no other way. Devoted to my vow in Sedona to work for the Earth, I pushed on in my growth. I learned Chi Kung and "light working," and had therapy through massage/Chi energy often enough to accelerate the process of my ever-changing DNA. I became a Shamanic healer with wonderful, absolutely profound outcomes! I took my knowledge to the Seattle Public School District and taught a workshop on Shamanic mask-making to a class of junior high school students. The time of harvest has come to me now, just two years after Sedona. I am now lecturing and assisting the very people who taught me. I am an ordained Earth Steward and Spiritual Healer and the Seattle representative working voluntarily through Jose Arguelles and Earth Celebration 2000. I've been writing articles for a variety of publications throughout the nation. I am currently working on an article for Vogue magazine. I also plan on doing an environmental education program for the Seattle Public School District in the coming year ... not counting my full-time job and housework! I received a clean bill of health on my throat. I never needed surgery again! And my marriage was saved -- my husband is my greatest supporter, lover and best friend. I needed to share this with you on this two-year anniversary of the three-fold healing I received in Sedona: physical, emotional and spiritual. Thank you, Dick. It was you who had given me the opportunity to choose a new direction. Candy Cribbs
Healed Back Pain I first began to realize something was different just outside of Gallup, New Mexico, driving west on Interstate 40 toward Sedona. My face felt flushed. I was wearing an orlon sweater. The temperature outside the car was in the 50s. The vents in the car were open. I was just about to pull my sweater off when I noticed that I was cool, almost chilly, in the car. But then I was too warm. As we crept closer and closer to Sedona, my head and upper body alternated between hot flashes and cold sweeping chills, although I was perfectly healthy and did not possess even the slightest hint of a cold or anything else. When I finally reached Sedona, the hot flashes and chills settled into a too-warm feeling. When we arrived at the Airport Mesa vortex, I felt like I was on fire, although the weather was even colder because heavy rain and snow clouds were blanketing the sun. I wanted to meditate in the vortex for just ten minutes so that I could draw some of the energy there into my body to take with me, but we were unable to find a place without wind or people. So my fiancee suggested that we face the vortex and extend the palms of our hands out toward the vortex. So we did. I felt a numbing sensation in my hands. They began to burn. The flame crawled up the internal parts of my arms and consumed my entire body. I was blazing. Throughout the rest of that day and the subsequent three days, my mind and body were high on this electomagnetic energy that had permeated me. I was aflame intuitively, intellectually, sexually, and physically. At the end of the fourth day, I concluded that I began feeling the powerful energy of the vortexes in Sedona while still on Interstate 40 outside of Gallup, New Mexico. I did not experience any "burn out/" It has been several days now since we left Sedona. My mind and body have been calm, quiet, and very productive -- almost as if they have received tune-ups. Remarkable, a stress-induced lower back ailment causing severe muscle spasms and great pain that I have experienced since January of this year is no longer bothering me. I am able to bend over stiff-legged and touch my toes without pain for the first time in months. And perhaps even more remarkably, I gave no thought to my back problems when I was in Sedona. The muscles in my lower back, which had felt like a doubled-up fist ever since the spasms, disappeared almost as if on cue after we drove into the city limits of Sedona that first night. Don Vasicek
Fear of Heights My sister, my niece, a friend, and I attended your seminar in Sedona in April. Sedona is so beautiful, and the seminar was great! I also had super results with the various psychic exercise you directed us through. We made it to three of the four vortexes. Bell Rock did the oddest thing for me. I proved it the next day at Airport Mesa. The day we went to Bell Rock, I scampered up like a mountain goat and even helped my sister up parts of it. I went out on a tiny ledge with my back to the rock and my feet on the edge of the drop off and meditated there. When finished, I scampered down, once more as nimble, sure-footed and unafraid as a mountain goat. Dick, I'm 60 years old and have a back problem. Also, for the last 10 years, maybe longer, I have been afraid of heights -- not terrified, just terribly unhappy about looking down from a ladder or a roof or over the edge of the Grand Canyon, unless I am firmly anchored. That's all gone! I don't know why the fear of heights started 10 years ago or why it left me at Bell Rock. Believe me, I'm very happy about that as well as the experiences during meditation there and at the other two vortexes. Thank you so much. Your seminars, books and tapes have helped me become an independent single person, more self-confident, more alive, more accepting that what is, is. Most of all, I like myself more. I also have taken a few small steps toward spirituality and have been given gifts beyond measure. Edna Hole
Bad Knees Healing I got so much out of the Sedona seminar that I wanted to share the best experience with you. I am a very active 29-year old woman. Although I take really good care of myself, I have bad knees. I injured them several years ago; they healed, but I have had chronic arthritic symptoms ever since. Too much physical stress, sudden weather changes, cold, damp or wet weather make them hurt a lot. Being active really hampers my lifestyle. My knees were hurting a lot when I left Oregon for Arizona. I tried to put the ache out of my mind while at the seminar sessions on Friday and Saturday. But I have to tell you that I missed the Sunday session and the Healing Circle because I spent the day at Bell Rock. While having totally healthy knees is always in the back of my mind, I didn't consciously spend my time in the vortexes seeking healing. After the seminar I spent a day in Las Vegas, where the temperature was in the 90s. Then I flew back to 60-degree rainy weather in Portland. Since returning home, the weather has been typically foggy, wet and cold. My knees should have been crying out in agony. But, after being home for a week, it suddenly dawned on me that they didn't hurt at all! And they haven't hurt since that Sunday in Sedona. It's been over a month and they still don't hurt. I've been working out daily and karate training three nights a week and still no pain. Temporary or permanent, this is a miracle, and I'm loving every minute of it. Karen Versteeg
Will Never Drink Again I experienced a strange and wonderful happening while climbing Bell Rock in Sedona a couple of years ago and I am happy to share it. The following explains my mental and physical state at that time. I had just broken up with a man I'd been dating for four years and was broken hearted. Financially, I was in a very bad situation -- broke and between jobs. I had no desire to be alive. I started drinking heavily on the weekends to blot out reality. By September, I came down with bronchitis, a nasty case that took me seven months to shake. I went to Sedona and climbed Bell Rock for the first time. I was tired of my hopeless state and was looking for any solution to turn my attitude around. The bronchitis was so bad that I couldn't go more than a few steps before stopping to catch my breath. I came upon a medicine wheel and careful positioned myself in the middle of it. Looking at the sky, I yielded to a sudden impulse that swept through me and said, "Please heal me." Then I started crying. The very moment I finished those words, I felt a vibration start from the soles of my feet and slowly surge through my body and out the top of my head. I put my hand above my head once and could feel the force, hot and pulsing, so strong that it pushed my hand away. When the vibration finally left me, I was very excited because I thought any minute my lungs would be clear and I would be able to breathe freely. Wrong! The next day, I went to the grocery store. I was out of beer -- God forbid. So, I went over toward the liquor section. But without even realizing what happened, I walked past the beer and ended up on the other side of the store, picking out vegetables and fruits. I remember grabbing a bunch of bananas and laughing out loud. I thought to myself, "You forgot the beer." Well, as I once more walked toward the liquor section, I realized that I would never drink again. I knew then what type of healing had taken place the day before. That has been over a year ago and I have not had the desire to drink nor even thought about drinking alcohol since. This would not be an earth-shattering story, except that alcoholism runs in my family -- my parents are recovered alcoholics and my older brother has been on and off the wagon his entire adult life. So, I had resigned myself to the fact that it would take a superhuman effort to cut down or stop drinking. Oh, the bronchitis healed -- a healthy body usually seems to mend itself. But the broken-hearted spirit inside me that had succumbed to the denial of life through self-medicating with alcohol -- that's what needed healing. I have made several trips back to Bell Rock to mediate, give thanks and be a bit greedy -- asking for another miracle. Of course, I do not specify what miracle, just another one, please. Cynthia Manalli
That "Psychic Stuff!" I just had to write and thank you for the wonderful weekend we spent in Sedona at your seminar this past March. My husband has been interested in psychic stuff for a few years and had ordered the Sedona video and the Sedona book. I wasn't that interested in the psychic, but I did like your self-help and motivational tapes, and had used some of them with good results. I have been diagnosed as having Systemic Lupus. When I saw the Sedona tape my husband sent for, especially when I saw all those people saying how much better they felt after going to the vortexes, I knew I had to go there, even if it was for a psychic seminar I wasn't really interested in. We arrived the day before the seminar and went to Boynton Canyon. I didn't expect much, but I felt so calm and peaceful, I knew there was something there that I hadn't expected. Normally, I cannot walk up hills or too many stairs without experiencing a lot of pain. I climbed as high as I dared; the higher I went, the better I felt. I thought for sure the next day I would be unable to get out of bed. But surprised, I was up early the next day and found myself full of energy and bouncing around. We went to the seminar, and I found myself getting right into that "psychic stuff." By Sunday, I was so full of energy that I thought I would burst. The love, the great feeling and many new friends -- I felt as though I have found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It was like getting a double shot of cortisone. I didn't want to leave. Wilda Pawlak
"The most incredible On the last day of the seminar, Easter Sunday, we did psychometry readings with partners. The woman who did a reading for me came up with some very accurate information on me, including a request from my guides to meet them at Bell Rock. Bell Rock was the only vortex I had not visited the previous day. I was very excited since my previous efforts to contact my guides had left me feeling vague and doubtful. I felt the need to get to Bell Rock as soon as possible since I was leaving that day. It was raining pretty steadily, so I put on some rain gear and walked up the mountain. I stopped at a place near a small waterfall, then found a quiet place to begin my meditation. Making contact with my guides, I received some interesting and very valuable information about my children. At the end of the meditation, my guides informed me, "We will tell you more about your healing later. That is all." Then, a while later, as I was preparing to leave the vortex, they told me my eyes would be healed. I have what is considered an incurable disease in my eyes called Hystoplasmosis. It makes the blood vessels in my eyes break and causes scar tissue to form. This scar tissue had formed in the macula in my eye, and I only had peripheral vision in that eye. The macula is the part of the eye where the image focuses; because of the scar tissue, I could not focus on anything. Now I am beginning to see with that eye. All my doctor can tell me is that the scar tissue has thinned somehow and light is being let through. I believe my healing has begun and I will have my eyesight back totally. What I experienced that weekend at the seminar was simply the most incredible experience of my life. Nancy Hanson * * * * * Perfection and balance are traditional attributes of spirituality that also underlie the concepts of health. Sickness and health are not simply physical states that the modern miracles of science will be able to analyze and make easily understandable. They are rooted in the deepest essence of being. Science and intellect can show us those aspects of physical reality that can be touched but they cannot probe the deepest mysteries. You cannot restore health in yourself or in others until you are aware, in the depths of your spirit, what health is. Health is wholeness in its most profound sense. And it is the essential wholeness, this dynamic and harmonious balance, that the healing power of Sedona appears to have restored to those participants whose stories we have printed on these pages. Let us know how the power of Sedona has affected you. Note: Dick's book, SEDONA: Psychic Energy Vortexes is available at www.sutphenpublishing.com. An excerpt from the book can be found at Dick’s Stories Site. |
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