For many years, I’ve described what I’ve called the “Ascension Void”.

This is a phase of spiritual awakening that people who have been on a spiritual path for many years seem to eventually go through at some point.

It’s a period of time in which your life begins to feel rather flat and empty. You realize the things in life that used to excite you no longer hold much interest. You discover you don’t relate to certain friends anymore as you used to. You find yourself staying home more. And you begin to wonder if life will ever get exciting again.

This phase in the Ascension process seems to be necessary: your familiar identity is beginning to shift in an unknown direction. You also realize that the life you’ve been living doesn’t really feel that comfortable anymore. There’s an increased yearning for something you can’t quite describe, a deep memory of a much more light-filled reality you remember from very long ago.

A Deeper Experience of the Ascension Void

An then, there is also a deeper stage of the Void I’ve referred to as the “Ascension Waiting Room” that seems to eventually happen for some.

This is a phase in which you feel like you’ve pretty much concluded your life here in 3D, and you’re now in a period of stasis or a sense of quiet waiting for some sign of the shift into 5D to show up.

After spending years of patiently working on yourself, meditating, healing traumas, facing your “shadow”, following spiritual teachings, and attempting to develop your spiritual gifts – you are now feeling stuck, directionless, and apparently going nowhere. You feel you are somehow “on hold”.

Also during this phase of awakening, there is often the experience of both death and rebirth occurring. This is where you know the old you is dying – pieces of your life and your personality are actually falling or fading away now. You often don’t recognize yourself anymore.

And yet, at times, there is also a sense of a new you coming present. A greater sense of lightness, clarity and awareness might appear for brief periods of time, and sometimes new spiritual gifts may come onboard. But somehow, not a whole lot seems to shift for you. the uncomfortable flatness is still there.

The Ascension Tipping Point

If you have been experiencing these first two phases of the Void for a while now, you may be discovering that there seems to be yet another even deeper layer to it now.

This is when life seems to be becoming increasingly strange — and even more pointless and irritating. And it eventually brings you to what I call the “Ascension Tipping Point“.

At first, as in the initial stages of the Void, you are really aware that nothing at all seems to bring excitement, joy or even much pleasure anymore.

In some cases, it feels as if your life is somehow over. There’s a sense of just waiting and waiting, wondering why you’re still here. You no longer feel as if you’re accomplishing anything; you’re just kind of keeping the body going. Everything you need to keep doing in life begins to feel pointless.

Your spiritual mission, which at one point rather excited you, feels either finished or simply without much life anymore. You finally begin to wonder if you’re simply experiencing an ongoing state of depression – and if maybe you should “do” something about this.

To make things even worse, if you also find yourself dealing with painful aging symptoms in your body – or mind fog and memory loss issues – it’s all the more difficult to keep going on in your already challenging and empty life.

And then, of course, when looking out at world events and how so much darkness is being revealed, it’s all the more depressing. You may understand that we’re living through the end of a Kali Yuga — or a shift from 3D to 5D — and so all this is to be expected. But even that doesn’t help much.

In addition, you may be dealing with severe emotional pain, as family members and old friends seem to be moving with ever-increasing speed onto another timeline, very different from the one you’re on. They can’t see who you really are and seem to increasingly not care that they don’t.

A deep fatigue can set in, a weariness with life you’ve never felt before, because there’s truly no knowing at this point how long the Earth’s transition into 5D is going to take.

And you just don’t relate to this on-going 3D world anymore. You wonder how you ever could.

You finally reach a point at which you feel you just can’t take the meaninglessness anymore: you’ve arrived at the “Ascension Tipping Point“.

You know that something needs to happen to help you break free of the pointlessness of your life that is still dragging along in this 3D world you can’t relate to anymore. You realize there’s got to be something deeper within yourself you need to discover that will guide you through this dreary emptiness that is beginning to plague you.

Facing the Dark Night of the Soul

And this is where your state of spiritual awakening is finally really tested. In what ways can all your years of spiritual study and practice help you learn to deal with this state of being you’re now experiencing?

As unique individual Beings, it becomes clear that we each need to find our own way forward when reaching this point. Some may seek out new spiritual teachers to give them answers – or keep tuning into current ones who give them hope.

Others might turn to certain “journey” drugs to lead them into greater understanding and positive experiences. Still others may just give up and go back to old ways of tuning out reality.

But certainly, it becomes obvious at some point that we need to remember the old adage: “The answer lies within”. External sources can be helpful; mind-expanding drugs can give some answers. But in the end, our journey into true spiritual freedom needs to come from deep within us.

This might mean devoting more time to meditation, prayer or contemplation. It might mean spending more time out in nature. Whatever it is, we all need to find our own unique way of dealing with this final “dark night of the Soul” experience.

If you have reached this point in your Ascension process, you may feel even more alone than ever, simply because not many people have experienced this yet. But — you can be assured that you are now at least very close to entering the portal into 5D.

Again, everyone has to find their own way forward from this uncomfortable place.

But one effective way is to spend time experiencing the Silence that resides deep within you.

This is where the constant inner chatter is blessedly absent, as is the voice of the inner critic; and there is just clear, open awareness present.

It can initially take some time to reach this place within you. You need to fully get out of your head and focus down into your Spiritual Heart, gently holding your attention there. Watch your breath for a while and sink ever more deeply into the quiet calm.

Relaxing music or certain meditation practices can sometimes help you reach this Still Point, where you can just absorb the silence and peace that are present there. In this space, you may also experience the Loving Presence that has always resided deep within you and held you in a safe and tender embrace.

In finally landing there within yourself, you can realize there is no more needing to change anything about yourself or your life. What’s happening in the world is really okay; what’s occurring in your life is too. No more longing for things to change. You’re still feeling the Void you’re in, but it no longer bothers you. There’s no more anxiety. Just easy acceptance of What-Is.

The little irritating things that happen in your life don’t impact you very much anymore. Nor do the big ones. Emotions float through, along with body pains, never fully landing or catching hold. When thoughts do occur, there’s no pull on them. They’re basically practical ideas or reminders of what you need to do that day.

You just keep navigating your way through this new Reality of clear, open consciousness, feeling totally free to simply be who you are.

This is an experience that can then open the Portal into 5D Consciousness, where joy and love and harmony – and a profound sense of full-bodied well-being – naturally reside.

In focusing on this experience, you can realize that it is beginning to happen more and more in your life, all on its own. You understand that this is finally where you have been led to all along.

And, even more importantly, you realize you don’t have to wait for the Earth to shift into 5D. You can instead begin now to live your own individual life in 5D consciousness.

And this is what it’s been about all along, anyway – right?