Some Free flowing contemplations on the GAP

For many years, going back to at least when I was introduced to metaphysics through LifeSpring, the question has been about why I am here and what have I to offer? Beyond that, I have always had a fascination for words and learned to use them very well. Now, there is the opportunity to use this curiosity and interest to actually write about it and explore the roots and causes of concepts and entomology of words and phrases. Acronyms seem to come to me easily: the meanings of words may be found in the order of the letters themselves. It is as if the word in English has been devised as a code for its greater meaning. Its meaning has been encoded into the letters which compose the word, and by looking at the letters in the word, its meaning is revealed.
Let’s start with an acronym which came to me while in Bali last year, 2006. And, let's explore its roots and history:
GAP: God’s Ah Place
—from a discussion during Darshan with Jayem in Bali on March 14th, 2006. Talking about the phrase Ah La Ha, in Aramaic, the ancient language of Jeshua/Jesus, meaning roughly the Breath of God-AH, into the Heart-La and out again-Ha. So, the Breath of God, AH, or the Idea in God’s Mind that creates All, is AH. To be in the GAP, as in meditation, is to be between thoughts, in music, between notes, in writing and speaking, the space, the pause, between words. In Aramaic, the space between characters that make up the words is as significant as the characters, themselves. So, I see that space, that GAP, as God’s space. God enters into that space when NoThing is happening and EveryThing is happening. It is the infinite place of all possibility and where creation takes place. When I allow myself to be in the GAP, I am saying to myself that it is safe to be there and that I am receptive to the Creative Force that resides always in me, as my so-called Higher Nature. In reality, there is no higher and lower, but for the sake of communicating on this level, I will take the liberty of speaking in relative terms of space and time. As I write this, is it coming from the GAP, or from my mind? Am I, John, the writer, making up these words from my finite mind, based on beliefs, attitudes and assumptions that have been planted in my conscious and subconscious mind by my associations with other humans and my environment? How am I to know? What are the signs of being in the GAP, and who is the decider of whether I am or am not? Intuition: the great lie detector of consciousness. Now, where did that come from? Intuition? A conundrum: a puzzling question or problem; a paradox. If I am in the Ah Place, then what comes out is of that place and it is apparent to those sensitive to Truth. Those not sensitive to Truth will often find what comes forth confusing, incongruent with their beliefs or downright wrong. Does that change Truth? Do I argue for my position of Truth? It seems to me that if I am accessing God’s Ah Place, there is no reason for me to make an issue of whether others accept what I say or not. In fact, to do so tends to disempower what has come forth. The Truth needs no defending for it stands on Its own merit. Anything other than the Truth cannot be defended without creating chaos and disharmony. Which cannot be created since there is no imbalance in Consciousness…EVER. Every last bit of matter, non-matter and anti-matter is required for the existence of the Universe. As Alan Watts so clearly put it, each living and non-living thing, event, person, possibility and potentiality is essential for the existence of the Universe, and the Universe is absolutely essential for the existence of each living and non-living thing, event, person, possibility and potentiality. The importance of each of us is beyond measure; and none of us is any more important than the meanest of the created universe. Slug, snail, rutabaga, oak or Archangel, we are all the same in significance to the maintenance of the Universe. Take even one speck out of existence and all ceases to exist. There is not even an explosion…just non-existence.

And so, what does this mean to the GAP discussion? That to be able to enter God's Ah Place means to be able to “see”, even if for only a moment, the Source of All and to Know my connection to it. It cannot be forgotten, though the experience can be temporarily buried in old beliefs and assumptions of what once seemed true. In fact, Truth is. There is no Truth about anything; it is just TRUE. All that I see about me are the symptoms of Truth. How I interpret them is up to me; and how others think or feel about what I think or feel is up to them. Now, my interpretations of these symptoms is always subject to review and re-interpretation. As I go deeper into the GAP and access more Truth, what I perceive as reality shifts and changes with the deeper knowledge and wisdom gained in these GAP intervals. And, as the GAP intervals widen, so does my wisdom. And, as my wisdom widens, my need to be right about it and to get others to agree or know what I know, lessens. Truth becomes apparent, and then it becomes a parent to more of its offspring, its symptoms. For instance, an apple is a symptom of an apple tree. When we see an apple, we know that somewhere there is an apple tree; or there was an apple tree. If that apple tree is dead, or has been used for firewood, or mulch or making woodcarvings, that fact of its existence is nonetheless proven. Within that apple are all the elements of that source apple tree. By tracing the origin of that apple, one can define the very essence of the specific apple tree from which that apple came. And going back, one can trace the origin of that particular tree to its parent seed and its parent tree…and so on forever.

There is much more of this discussion, but I'll leave it here for now. If someone out there wants the full article, let me know and I'll be happy to send it.