butte ” located just west of Courthouse Butte, north of the Village of Oak Creek, Arizona, south of Sedona in Yavapai County. (kwphotog / Adobe Stock) Many New Age followers maintain Bell Rock is “a transdimensional portal,” and many have been told to look out for and have therefore subsequently experienced then reported a range of fluctuations in “energy” when visiting this site. Of course, any actual vortexes that are felt are caused by swirls of warm dusty air forming in channels of cooler air. By sitting at these sites and being still for only a short period of time, one can actually feel these vortexes of dusty wind swirling around their entire selves, and it is no wonder that by tweaking ones perception of the occurrence, notions of other dimensions might arise. But where did the term vortex first become associated with the famous geological sites of Arizona?