I have now spent over five years studying, exploring, cataloging, and categorizing unusual occurrences that happen in and around Sedona, Arizona. It is, without doubt, an extraordinarily mysterious and mystical place. People often undergo major life changes when they come here. There is a mysterious unknown element here in Sedona that changes people--usually in a positive manner. There is a saying here that Sedona makes you face everything: either you do and you are victorious and triumphant or you run. It's not easy. There is a very old, widely held statement that the human's sole purpose for coming into a physical state of existence is to master emotions. Until that is done, so goes the theory, we cannot progress to higher realms. If so, then Sedona may be playing an ever larger role in human evolution than any of us suspect.