ART CAPITAL, TOURIST DESTINATION, MODERN ADOBE CITY-SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, NOW MAY ALSO BE ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST IMPORTANT SACRED SITES. Santa Fe, the City Different, has deeply excited visitors for over a hundred years with its crystal blue skies, Blood of Christ mountains, pure dry air, old adobe charm, and beautiful light. But this high-desert State capital and artists' haven may also be a Land of Light-a premier landscape of multiple sacred sites and heightened spiritual charge. People love this place, they say, for its uplifting, spiritually leavening effect, for how it starts a process of transformation, healing, deep change, and self-reinvention. People revere this place as an axis of creativity, a hotbed of innovation, and a paramount center for recreating culture and spirituality capable of inspiring the world. Santa Fe Light explains why. An able travel guide, it takes you to 111 different locations and their Light temples in and around Santa Fe, numinous places usually only encountered in myths or dreams. And it proposes that the observed social qualities of Santa Fe, its livability, might be due to this fabulous visionary geography alluringly just beyond the veil of our ordinary perception. Richard Leviton, an investigator of visionary terrains for over 25 years, provides firsthand accounts of what it's like inside all these Light temples, what it's possible to see and experience, and how they co-create Santa Fe reality. The total impact of these on awareness and the feeling for life here he calls Santa Fe Light. Touch one Light temple and you open a door into the universe, and you suddenly find immediately practical ways to help the campaign with Gaia to restore the Earth.

Beautiful photographs and evocative essays showcase iconic places, events, inventions, and foods that convey the personality of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a very special city different.

Since the death of both of her parents, Alexandra Romero's grandmother from Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been her sole support system. But that treasured relationship comes to an abrupt end. Alexandra begins her career in broadcasting, determined to reach the top of her field, and becomes too busy for visits home. Gran often talks of the rich and satisfying life Alexandra could find in the city of her birth-one that would be filled with a support system of people who knew her parents and care deeply about her. Soon it becomes too late. Gran dies, and Alexandra makes her first return trip to New Mexico for the memorial service. Keeping Gran's home and living in Santa Fe is not an option because her career is in New York City, as is her fiancé, Frank Reynolds. Her quick trip extends into several weeks, and Alexandra learns that her Catholic faith and heritage are as important as any big city career. Only when she meets the people in Gran's life and reads her journals does Alexandra realize what she's missed. Through the magic of the Land of Enchantment and a small miracle, Gran's wishes may finally be fulfilled.