Diving Through the Crashing Wave © 2020 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

After a year and a half of traveling to New York to care for my brother who has had a stroke, exhaustion caught up with me and I put a pause on my regular ezine / blog posts and YouTube videos. I felt like I was saying the same thing over and over again.

I thought it would start again in February, but the Coronavirus spread around the world and it seems that it was in front of it. The first reported cases in the United States were in the Seattle area in February, and I attended a large meeting at the Seattle Center on February 22. Then I flew to New York City just as a single case was reported there. On March 1, I flew to Spain, and during the seventeen days there I was able to witness the city of Madrid go from being rarely casual about the outbreak (“there are only 400 cases in a city of 4 million”, to closing completely in 14 March: people weren’t even allowed to go out to exercise. Only one person in a car. You could be fined between 50 and 600 euros for being on the street if you didn’t buy the essentials.

I flew back to New York on March 17 and was isolated for 14 days. I thought I just had a cold, but now with a better awareness of the symptoms I am convinced it was a mild version of COVID19. While in New York, my sister-in-law developed much more recognizable symptoms, and I was there for a full month helping her recover and doing everything I could to prevent my disabled brother from infecting her.

I have been to Vashon Island since April 16 (I did not leave the house for the first 14 days) and I feel like I am barely taking my head out of the water.

It’s been an intense few months and it’s not over yet.

Regardless of which city I am in, the fear is palpable every time I go out. I have been hesitant to give a spiritual perspective on what is happening, feeling that neutrality could be confused with being disconnected or in denial. Also, if I’m so good at what I do, why am I in this parallel Universe? Why haven’t I changed, fixed or manipulated this hologram?

Here’s the thing: this is all part of the shift. What is falling apart, what is disintegrating in our lives, whether physically or emotionally, is because a greater Consciousness is being formed.

Now I used to resist pessimists who said, “not everyone is going to make it.” And yet wow, we’re seeing a lot of deaths in a short amount of time. But one way of looking at it is, there is no death, our loved ones have just left their physical forms for the loving embrace of a greater Consciousness. There is nothing good or bad about dying or the amount of time you spend in a lifetime in physical form. Also from my “5D” perspective, there are parallel universes where their bodies are still alive. And as Consciousness we are always connected, whether we are together in body or not.

My interpretation of “5D” is not that we are all going to switch to it, one of my favorite astrologers thinks that means death. What I have found is that as I experience myself as a Greater Consciousness entering my body more, my reality feels lighter and more fluid. Time is malleable. Grounding is different. Physical reality is less dense. It’s like going from dial-up to Wi-Fi.

As a Consciousness, I totally agree with what is happening, even when my personality rages against it. It is not about superimposing a rosy vision on what is. It’s more like watching a city, neighborhood, or world go through an update. Telephone poles are knocked down, sewers dug, squalid houses condemned.

At this moment it is very evident that this is a world of opposites. The loudest and weakest are in power, the old paradigms that they fight so hard to continue to impose are fading. What is emerging, I see, is a new inner sense of empowerment, that we are all inherently and uniquely valuable. As we broaden our awareness, the old definitions are also fading, in terms of gender and sex.

It is not easy and it will not end in a minute or a month, this transition will continue to unfold.

A while ago, while playing in the waves on the beach, I learned not to turn my back on the ocean when a giant wave was coming towards me. Just dive through it to the other side. As these waves of change come our way, face them, take a deep breath and dive into them. The reality will be much more fun on the other side.