Engineering Hope

1. Miracle Worker
2. You Dare or You Dare Not
3. When Hope Is Not Ready, Give Courage And Joy
4. Mining For Inspiration
5. Crisis Management and Burn-out Recovery
6. Epilogue

Kaiji is a character of mere vulnerable mortal, but he depicts a parable of an overcoming, riding the storms, no matter how deep his abyss is. He is a parable of a survivor, wagering against his situation.

Hope is the difference delivered to those who engineered the change compared with those who did not. Miracle in process is the natural collateral outcome.

Miracle Worker

Build yourself first. You must be the author of yourself, and then gain mastery over your own destiny in order to create it.

Out of 6 levels of Maslow’s, including the 7th (self-transcendence), most of the levels are related to Pneuma. This relates to the fact that the mind requires a build up for self-emancipation. Nonetheless, it is built on the basis that Soma and Psyche are well-cared for, i.e. there is physical and mental (emotional and mental mastery and sense of control) well-being. This also means that the sense of security and safety must be assured before the sense of self-adequacy and self-sufficiency. Yet when all else is set, self-completeness is a state that is much hard to attain…