Visiting Sedona

I am visiting Sedona, Arizona. It is a beautiful place and people are friendly if not a bit touristy. The red rocks are impressive and seem from another time and place. I noticed a theme developing with those who have settled here: everything is energized with spiritual energies because of the existence of special vortexes of energy. These vortexes are said to connect people to higher energies. I do notice the connection with nature being more intense here as the beauty if overwhelming, but the kind of spiritual frenzy that people profess and attribute to Sedona is really in their imagination. What I mean is that most of the people have this spacey head energy where everything is spiritual and truth is relative. So anything goes and everyone has God in them, which happens to be the truth, but only a few have any idea what that means much less have any experience of God within. God seems as conceptual and misconceived as any opinion on the latest fashion or popular new age method of knowing something. What I saw was a boatload of opinions and almost no real experience of God. Sorry to deflate the great balloon of the ego, but living somewhere does not have anything to do with being spiritual. Genetically descending from a biological line has absolutely nothing to do with being spiritual. Knowing some jargon and having some superlative words or all-inclusive pseudo-true words makes absolutely no difference in reality to whether you have any real spiritual experience or not. Psychics are advertised on many store fronts and psychic readings are going on in almost every little shopping plaza. They pretend to be reading your soul, but are actually reading your astrology chart or your aura. Some of them are quite good at what they do, but most are fairly untransformed beings themselves that know almost nothing about God or themselves. I am not talking about anybody personally, but I wanted to mention the flavor or spirituality in Sedona. There is not real substance to it at all. There is a whole lot of talk and a great deal of spaced-out mind, but almost no real backbone of courageous spiritual connection with God at the center of our being. Talk is cheap when you can attribute spirituality to some hill or mountain or grouping of red folds of rock. But inner spiritual work is hardly being done anywhere regardless of the location on the planet. It is rare.