"Enchantment" in New Mexico? (Santa Fe, Clovis: real estate, work, house)

[clairz]

Okay, here goes. If you know me at all from this forum, you probably know that I am concrete and tend toward the factual. (Why else would I keep telling you how great it is in Clovis?? ). So this question is a little strange, coming from me.

I had a comment on my blog from someone in Massachusetts asking if New Mexico has vortexes like the ones believed to be in Arizona. I had to look up the word and found that vortex, in this sense, is a "swirling center of healing energy" and that Sedona is believed by some New Ageists to have several. I can't find anything scientific to back up this theory (except a possible measure of residual magnetism in the vortex areas), nor can I find anything about any such places in New Mexico.

Having said all that, I have felt some amazing things in certain places in New Mexico. It may just be that I am experiencing an incredible sense of peace; or that I am overwhelmed by the surrounding beauty; or it may be just an awareness of so much ancient history--but I come away with the feeling that "The Land of Enchantment" is an apt name for our state.

So I am asking you, fellow New Mexicans and New Mexico fans, have you ever had any such experiences here?

~clairz

[EnjoyEP]

I thought that feeling was just the gas after too many helpings of frijoles!

(Sorry for the immaturity moment. Back to regularly scheduling programming now)...

[clairz]

Originally Posted by EnjoyEP

I thought that feeling was just the gas after too many helpings of frijoles!

(Sorry for the immaturity moment. Back to regularly scheduling programming now)...

Ha! That's exactly what Steve-O said over on the AZ forum in a thread I checked out on vortexes.

~clairz

[ricky37]

Vortexes are caused by hot air rising, and in this state they are most often sighted near the round house in Santa fe.

[tecpatl]

Well, there is the Taos "hum". Check it out. The Hum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Those vortexes exist just about anywhere New Agey crystal-conjuring-mysterioso folks decide they'd like to live. (Somehow they never are found in the middle of a big 'ol industrial city in the Midwest..
Anyway, there must be some up around Santa Fe/Taos, maybe Silver City here in the south. I believe they can be identified by former real estate agents turned shamans.
Here in Mesilla there is a vortex of peaceful, healing, positive energy that swirls up whenever I unplug the phone, pour myself a cold malt beverage and sit in the back yard with my lovely wife, facing west and watching the sun set over the west mesa. At least it feels miraculous....and it sounds just like two glasses clinking together.
Seriously...people believe what they want or need to believe and it's all fine with me.
Heck, I've got friends who go to a big, ornate temple-like structure most every week, and sometimes they eat and drink things there that they believe are the the blood and human flesh of a god that came to live on earth a long time ago. Talk about strange. I've done it myself, but it tasted more like wine and a wafer to me. All perception, I guess.

[Devin Bent]

I think -- correct me if I am wrong -- They didn't even use to call this place the "Land of Enchantment" .It was I believe various things including Land of Sunshine and -- of all things -- the Land of Montezuma.

Some time before 1940 somebody dreamed up the new name.

[TKO]

There's the lights of "La Luz" and La Llorona (I've seen her) is everywhere there's water.

[ziaAirmac]

While I can't say I'm a card-carrying crystal fanatic, I will say that I've had more of those inspiring, completely connected, filled to the core life moments here in New Mexico than anywhere else. And that's not for lack of trying elsewhere. Maybe it's the stark beauty. Maybe it's the ease of finding isolation or comraderie at will. If it's due to a convergence of multiple vortex's and crystalline fields setting up secondary harmonic vibrations with rogue comets form the Oort Cloud, hey bring it on... call it what you want, I'll take it. For all I know, it could be my allergy medication.

If someone tried to tell me one of those vortexes was in action in the Chaco area, I wouldn't disagree, magnetic variation or not. There's something there that you feel to your core when you're quiet to it, and I can't believe the Anasazi weren't attuned to it. I think they knew they had to build there like you know about a good melon.

[clairz]

Originally Posted by TKO

There's the lights of "La Luz" and La Llorona (I've seen her) is everywhere there's water.

You've seen La Llorona? Tell!

I worked in a school in southern NM and all the little kids were scared of her. So, please tell us more.

~clairz

[jsc23]

According to Las Vegas folk history, the Montezuma hot springs have been a "truce zone" for time immemorial. The springs weren't simply a neutral zone, but also a place for settling feuds and disputes. United World College-USA currently occupies the site. About six years ago UWC began operating the Bartos Institute offering both a center for conflict resolution and training for those involved in conflict mediation.

So the site continues as a place for social healing. It may be a vortex, an apex, or maybe the springs have a high lithium content....