The Sixth Vortex - A New Vortex Discovery In Sedona

By David J. Mackey

Derrick, a visiting writer/hiker from Oregon stumbles into an unknown energy vortex site near Sedona, Arizona. After getting lost he finds his way back to the highway and hitches a ride with a woman named Robin, who is also visiting the area on her way to Boulder to start her new job with a publisher. When Derrick learns that his getting lost was caused by the vortex energy field messing with his compass and his cell phone, he then becomes aware of the significance of his discovery and the effect it will have on the Sedona economy, and later to the Native American community. This fictional short story is about this new partnership with Robin, as they discover energy vortex science, and also the world wide subtle energy healing community. Together they craft a book to introduce the new vortex site to the world. They titled the book - The Sixth Vortex, A new vortex discovery in Sedona.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David J. Mackey
• Release date: Mar 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311656780

David J. Mackey

David John Mackey was born in Potsdam, NY, in the early 1940's,and raised beside the Racquette River in Saint Lawrence County. Those early years instilled reverence for nature and art that continues to this day. Cameras and pencils became tools of choice for his photography, art, and writing. David lived in the Adirondack region for most of his first forty-five years. He later moved to New England and then to the San Francisco area where his writing, photography, and outdoor adventures broadened. He is now living with his wife on the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington State. He continues his photography and writing from this Olympia, Washington home. David spent the first fifty years of his life in the northeastern United States. Now, he and his wife of twenty years, have lived in western Washington since 2005. Both are now retired, in their early eighties, happy and contented in their home in Olympia. David's career included architectural design, property management, retail ownership and management, graphic design, and professional photography. Enjoying his retirement, he now pursues avocational passions of writing, photography, art, and nature study. David has self-published several eBooks of his poetry and experience essays. His current writings are focused on his self-diagnosed experiences on the autism/Asperger's spectrum, life, and as always – more poetry. "It's all Rough Draft until you die" is about Earl, the protagonist, and his experiences of aging. Journal writings and narrative tell the story of the various physical and mental health aspects combined with the challenges of selling their home and downsizing into a smaller apartment in Olympia, Washington. Perhaps you will find inspiration to do your own journal writing as your life continues. This writer has published his third eBook entitled "Reflections, Do you see what you think you see?" about reflected light giving us visual experiences and also about our reflecting emotionally from image experiences. Reflections offers a mix of the science of light demonstrated in photographs, often mixed with the psychologies of our reactions. Reflections published July 1, 2017. David published his second eBook entitled "The Sixth Vortex" on March 29, 2016. This fictional story is about discovering a new energy vortex near Sedona, AZ. (A quick and entertaining read at 10,840 words.) David's first eBook is entitled "Ponder This" which is an invitation to...

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The Sixth Vortex

A new vortex discovery in Sedona

by David J. Mackey

Copyright 2016 David J. Mackey

Published by David J. Mackey

ISBN 9781311656780

This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Cover design by the author. The cover photo of the Coffee Pot rock formation was taken by the author in Sedona, AZ, in 2015.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to our fellow travelers in 2015, within the Road Scholar tour #1062 - Sedona's Best, to Dennis Sigman - our tireless and knowledgeable guide who enlightened us with his extensive knowledge of the region and its history and his patience, to my wife, Sandra Herndon - who thoughtfully put together our adventure, and to my friends and fellow writers who have encouraged my writing development over the years. Special acknowledgement goes to Sandra, my patient in-house editor, who helps me fumble through our English language rules to bring you this story. Thank you all

Introduction

This story began in my head in real-time as I was walking out of the desert forest at the base of Coffee Pot red rock formation near Sedona, Arizona during a trip in 2015. The first few pages will set the scene for you. Early in the story a fictional scenario gradually begins to thread in and out as the story becomes blended invisibly with fact and fiction for the duration.

Many of us now live in a culture where sensitivities to the subtle energies of the natural world have long since been lost. Perhaps my ending to this story can help bring restoration in some small way to this loss and, to those who know and those of us who are still learning.

David J. Mackey

Table of Contents

Chapter One - Around Coffee Pot

Chapter Two - Lost

Chapter Three - Vortex Visit

Chapter Four - Back Home

Chapter Five - Validation

Chapter Six - Arizona - a poem

Chapter Seven - Far apart

Chapter Eight - Co-habitation

Chapter Nine - Going public in Sedona

Parting Thoughts

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Chapter One - Around Coffee Pot

"I can see my bones in the future, half covered with sand. Bleached bones long since picked clean by bugs, critters, and time. I need to get moving. I am two hours out even if I knew where the hell I was going. Why didn’t I bring more water? More too-heavy-to-carry water? OK, clouds are now messing up my bearings. No shadows - no directions. Should have stayed on the trail instead of wandering off for stupid photos. No problem – I never get lost. My trusty compass will get me back to the road and my cell even has a GPS map. Whoa! What in hell is happening? Compass needle is going nuts. Erratic. Settle down. Huh? The cell - no signal. What? There are cell towers all over the place around Sedona. No panic here. I’ll figure this out. This never happens to me. Never before anyway. Too many stories about