Recently on my travels I was passing through some areas in the middle of the United States that I had never been to before, teaching qigong workshops. By chance in one of the towns I was visiting, someone mentioned that they had heard there was a vortex in another nearby town.
It was interesting because several people had told me they had mixed feelings about the town, and that they didn’t feel fully at ease with the place, even though it is a tourist spot. Some feel physically ill when they are there. Another person I talked to said they had heard there was a vortex there, but they hadn’t managed to find it themselves. So I wasn’t expecting much, but my teaching schedule allowed me to make a very quick trip out to this town between workshops, so I thought I might as well go and have a look, as I always enjoy finding and interacting with different earth energy features.
I googled the town before I headed out to see what I could find about the vortex and where I should be looking. When I arrived I found the vortex ok, exactly where someone had said it would be on a webpage I looked at. But it was immediately apparent why other people had a hard time finding it. The vortex was badly damaged. It’s structure was weak, it wafted from place to place, coming apart and then pulling itself together. Sometimes its energy came through strong – if still erratic, and then it would die down to nothing.
It was quite sad to see the vortex in this condition. I stabilized it while I was there and got it steady and strong. But when I left, I knew it wouldn’t last. The vortex still has the potential to be a powerful and healthy force in the town, but to stay strong and healthy the whole area it is in would need to be rebuilt. It is in a shoddy and poorly designed concrete park… a lot of this would need to be ripped up and redesigned in a more harmonious way. This would be a real benefit to the town. The town is struggling a bit at the moment, and a healthy vortex acts as a draw to people. Whether they are consciously aware of it or not they feel different about being near the vortex. At the moment… well like I mentioned earlier, in its current state the vortex is more a liability than an asset. It makes some people feel unwell.
It would take a pretty enlightened town government get behind a project like that though… or maybe a group of concerned citizens. Maybe one day…