Repellers  of  witches  and  evil  spirits.  Bells  are  associated  with  the  divine:  their  sound  is  symbolic  of  creative power, their shape a symbol of the female force  and the celestial vault.

B15 Bells

Agapeis the ancient Greek word for unselfish love. In contemporary terminology, agape means God-love or the love of God operating within humans. This latter conception of agape provides the foundation for universal human rights in Dr. Martin Luther King’s beloved community

B16 Beloved Community

The Benandanti ("Good Walkers") were members of an agrarian visionary tradition in the Friuli district of Northern Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Benandanti claimed to travel out of their bodies while asleep to struggle against malevolent witches (streghe) in order to ensure good crops for the season to come. Between 1575 and 1675, in the midst of the Early Modern witch trials, the Benandanti were tried as heretics or witches under the Roman Inquisition, and their beliefs assimilated to Satanism.

B17 Benandanti

Henri-Louis Bergson  was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.

B18 Bergson, Henri Louis

George Berkeley, also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others).

B19 Berkeley, George

Betrayal is the violation of some obligation imposed by nature, by an external authority, or by oneself. In Jewish, Christian, and Islamic
contexts, the opportunities for betrayal are many, given the enumerated legal codes that outline one’s ethical obligations to family, neighbors, and community.

B20 Betrayal

Achievement motivation is the desire to achieve a personal or public standard of excellence, to do well for the sake of doing well rather than for extrinsic reward or for some other goal.

Achievement Motivation

Love is a cornerstone of bhakti, aptly describing the profound emotional commitment a devotee makes to God or to a guru, yet bhakti is not an idealized love; it is a love that is ever inflected with ordinary human experience.

B22 Bhakti

Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing methodology that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. This model assigns more indirect costs (overhead) into direct costs compared to conventional costing.

Activity Based Costing

According to Hindu tradition, physical birth is one of a series of life-cycle events, beginning with conception and ending with death, that define a human life. Although these events can occur by themselves, Hinduism associates them with specific ritual acts, collectively referred to as samskāra, a word that literally means “making complete.”

Andre Smuts PhD