Abstract
If one visits a curio shop in India, it is not unusual to find a ‘tree of life’. The idea of the tree of life is interweaved with the mystical or ecstatic experience gained through the process of understanding the self. Relic’s wonderful article talks about esoteric symbolism of the tree of life in Hindu and Buddhist systems, together with various indigenous traditions. It is fascinating the way she argues about different forms of mystico-religious experiences found in religious traditions, and explains them from a cross–cultural context.
Covering a spectrum usual of the JHV, Setty, Subramanya and Mahadevan study the effects of yoga on adolescents’ attitude towards violence in a school in the southern part of India. In another crisply written paper, Padhy and Mishra use a grounded theory approach to analyse the effect of honesty in software project performance. On the issue of interculturality, intraculturality and education, Aparicio Gervas et al argue that formal education in Latin America has given rise to a complex situation where the interaction of disparate concepts as intra- and transculturality is weaved with local identity in the context of globalisation. Wolfer’s fascinating work analyses seemingly unsuitable contents from adult Facebook users by asking them to identify the top three types of posts they have seen on Facebook which could be inappropriate. Finally, Garg’s paper examines the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee commitment, job satisfaction and work-life balance satisfaction. All these papers would possibly remind the reader of the focus of this journal in bringing out the richness of the study of human values as embedded in different contexts.