So I’ve been watch Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, a great TV show where pseudo scientists, mystics healer-types and assorted wierdos are routinely crushed with science and reason. I’ve only watched four episodes and already the show has been to Sedona, Arizona twice! Why is Sedona such a hotbed for nonsense and quackery?
And when did it start being a whacko magnet, if I may add to this query? I lived in Phoenix 1980-85, and I don’t recall any of that stuff. I just recall Sedona being incredibly beautiful. I was just a kid though, could easily have missed it.
As you can imagine, there’s more than 2 episodes that feature googlies from Sedona. There’s at least a dozen, I bet. Maybe even more.
It’s because of all the vortexes there. Like wow, man.
Wow, “SEDONA” spelled backwards is “ANODES,” dude. Got to be some heavy vibes there.
At least it doesn’t have the Taos “Hum”. 
In all fairness, there is/was a bookstore in Sedona that had a single copy of Monster In A Box back in 2004. I was on vacation, and heard the sad news about Spaulding. I desparately needed to read something of his…that bookstore in Sedona saved the day for me.
From what I hear, the majority of Sedona’s incoming population flow consists of retirees and hippies, two groups which are probably easily swindled by nutty quacks. My theory is that the quacks are there for the same reason there are so many migrant workers in California farms.
Sedona has been attracting wackos since the 70s, if not before. I thnk it was the late 80s/early 90s before they got critical mass & started drvinging out the ordinary folks, or at least driving away ordinary would-be mover-inners.
I was watching UFO Hunters (the History Channel one), and they went there. I think there’s um… ley line intersections there or something. It allows the UFOs to gather power to swap dimensions (really, even if I don’t believe you guys on that show anyway, you’re always interesting and reasonably objective until you pull out shit like this for no reason).
So one little bit of pseudoscience leads to more and more and suddenly you have a bunch of whacked people prancing around.
I have a very special affinity for Sedona. Not only for my own personal nuptual example there, but the fact that I have had so many cool things happen to me there. I’m not going to name them all but it is a very special place. I think people get drunk from the beauty, it’s so damn gorgeous people naturall yfeel {{{IN-TUNE}}} with themselves.
Yes, it’s true some people [read quite a lot of people] achieve this altered state chemically through various weeds and fungi but it’s still very beautiful in and of itself.
I remember when I was just out of college playing Carols Castaneda up on Cathedral Rock with a couple of friends, it was wonderful! We were the only ones there and I had a wonderful conversation with a prickly pear cactus! 
Sedona is fun specifically for that reason. I wanna go there and hang out with the Dolphin whisperer, and I would if her group therapy sessions weren’t like $ 2000 a pop. 
It’s always funny to me that New Agey stuff angers people so deeply. Nowadays Sedona is kind of a yuppie fascist state where you can get ticketed for playing music in the park. That’s what you get when you have a place full of rich crotchety retirees.
Apologies to Gary, Indiana songwriters. (I was able to play this midi version while viewing this thread, after temporarily closing the the window, hope it works for others )
Sedona, Arizona, Sedona, Arizona, Sedona, Arizona,
Red Rocks there you will find.
Sedona, Arizona, Sedona, Arizona, Sedona, Arizona,
That’s the town that “blew my mind.”
If you’d like to have a vortical turgence
With some nice Harmonic Convergence,
Hiking, biking a’ plenty resurgence.
It’s a laidback place
A spa can do your face.
Sedona, Arizona,
Sedona, Arizona,
Not Phoenix, San Francisco, LA, or Aspen,
but Sedona, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona,
A psyChic happenin’.
If you’d like to have a logical rest
And have a metaphysical quest
Only needling from the cactus
A laidback place
For a celebrity face.
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona, Arizona,
Not Phoenix, San Francisco, LA, or Aspen.
but Sedona Arizona,
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona Arizona,
A psyChic happenin’.
The secret has been out for about 10 years…so yes the place has become “*the”['i] place for the yuppie enclaves. Many artisans have moved to Jerome and yet a few ex-hippies still exist and make a good living with thier glass blowing etc…etc…
Clever. 
Did it sound like Johnny Cash?
As an actual attempt to respond to the OP with something akin to a reason, aren’t there a lot of mystical-looking rock formations and sacred ancient Native American sites there? Both of those would certainly be a draw to those of a paranormal bent.
Our waiters at the Thai restaurant we dined at there were just so stoned that the meal was incomprehensible. They couldn’t understand that they’d delivered to us the completely wrong orders.
The fact that one of them was wearing glitter and kept grooving on his hand didn’t help.
There was an Indian buffet in town that made up for it though.
That and the completely solitary hike up one of the red mesas that our family did together while we were there.
Because we in Northern California spent a metric buttload of US dollars to ship the hippies and quacks out there.
Just kidding. We still have a bunch of them here.
When I moved to Arizona 5 years ago one of my friends from back home said something along the lines of, “Sedona, Arizona - second highest energy readings in the world.”
I didn’t even know how to respond to that.