Achieving goals often requires the completion of sequential actions, such as finishing a series of assignments to pass a class. In the course of pursuing such goals, people can decide how closely to follow their personal standards for each action. We propose that actions at the beginning and end of a sequence appear more diagnostic of the pursuer's personal standards than do actions in the midd...

This research examined at diagnosing the existing and preferred organizational culture of the Eritrean Center for Organizational Excellence (Ercoe) and indicated the cultural practice that fits to implement its strategic plan. Organizational culture is a commonly held in-the-mind of organizational members. It’s reflected by basic assumptions, rituals and values. These will be the basis how to p...

The three notions that underlie Indian culture are that of bandhu, paradox, and yajña. Bandhu is the binding between the outer and the inner that makes it possible to know, and this is the basis of the pervasive spirituality in India; paradox is the recognition that the bandhu must lie outside of rational system, leading to the distinction between the “higher” science of consciousness and the “...

istorical depictions of Tibet’s ninth century describe an escalating violent chaos, the disintegration of centralized organization systems across social, political, and economic realms. However, the ritual tantric contexts of the emergence and development of Mahāyogatantra at the end of Tibet’s Dynastic Period (ca. 650-850 CE) and into the Age of Fragmentation (ca. 850-950), might be characteri...

nature displays profound preference for certain specific ratios to design her life-forms. these are geometric relationships that are transcendent and originated from sacred geometry. the view that geometry had a ritual origin is a part of a wider view that civilization itself had a ritual origin, and therefore the history of utilization of sacred geometry by man goes back to many centuries ago....