temporality

This page addresses an important topic at a place where objectivity meets subjective opinionation. Temporality is a generally recognized objective reality in the context of having historicity, futurism, and present tense. However, in addition to present, future, and past, this page considers a possible fourth aspect of temporality to be fantasy. The page itself may elaborate in a way that references the idea, but any significant opinionation can be discussed on the |talk page. The essential differentiation pertains to motility: present tense is that aspect of temporality within which one can move about freely in most any direction, though spacial blockages are a milder aspect of limitation; future tense is something we can pursue, that we can move toward yet not as freely about until we arrive there; past tense is not as available to us any more, yet we were a significant type of actually there already, moving about within it until its temporal presence yielded to becoming mere memories. The motilities of fantasy are even less truly our own, in that our level was never directly present such that we would carry memories with us of the type of experiences we usually have when we were actually there at some time.

This site considers three alternative but adjacent or sequential styles of participating and/or interacting with that fantasy level of spacio-temporal "reality": Gāṇapatya bhakti which is partially tamasic (dealing with the troublesome aspect of historicity) and exemplified by Gaṇeśa (Gaṇapati) and Hermeticism with its extensions of elemental magic (Rosicrucianism and so forth); Kaumāra bhakti which is partially rajasic (dealing with the difficulties of future tense) and exemplified by Skanda (Kārttikeya) and Scientology with its extensions of chemical ecclesiation (Catholicism and so forth); and that merely sattvic (milder) aspect of bhakti represented by Prahlāda, whose reincarnation Raghavendra Swami publicly claimed to be, with its merely bioelectric (yogic) extensions in the world of mysticism. Yoga traditionally has a reserved way of referring to subtleties, even though in the scope of all that life is, of course, many specific practitioners have known to indulge tantra of various sorts. The Church (including even Judeo-Islamic temples and mosques with their congregations) seems to take a step downward into the realms of fantasy with its more ecclesiastically aggressive confrontation of demons and devils, often employing exorcistic techniques, yet still maintaining an aspect of reserve or cleanliness. Magic is the next step down into fantasy that more truly engages its practitioners (and of course its audiences in the context of entertainment) in battles with darkness and taint, and Hermes Trismegistus is a well-accepted master in his field.