Damp Specialist Quotes

General traditional theory asserts that when under stress, the body’s meridian system becomes imbalanced. Many factors cause stress, including physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual challenges, psychological issues, biochemical problems, and even electromagnetic difficulties such as geopathicstress. Even natural environmental factors such as excess cold, damp, wind, dryness, or heat can create imbalance. Under duress, the blood, chi, and fluid cannot flow normally, usually leading to congestion (excess or blockage) or depletion (deficiency or weakness). Symptoms of these imbalances can be found through the meridians even before they manifest physically. Once these problems appear physically, these underlying causes can impede the body’s healing ability. The meridian therapist essentially stimulates the acupuncture points to restore balance. Stagnant chi calls for stimulation. Cold chi needs warmth. As we will see in the section on meridian treatment modalities, diagnosis, and treatment, there are many paths open to a meridian specialist, including needling and non-needling techniques, massage, energy work, diet, herbs, and more. YIN/YANG Yin/yang is a synthesis of the other categories. Yin equals interior, empty, and cold. Yang equals exterior, full, and hot. It can also describe two kinds of emptiness: deficiency (not enough yin or yang) and collapse (critical “collapse” or recession of yin or yang).

It’s The Specialist, by Charles Sale, and is only a few dozen pages long. Strictly speaking, it’s the reminiscences of a privy builder, but it’s really a gentle education in the nature of humour. That stuff needs deep soil; you can grow wit on a damp flannel.

Bernard Harris, Mission Specialist: Most notable about STS-55 was that we were only the third launch pad abort. After the main engines ignited and just as we were getting ready to lift off, the master alarm went off. The main engines got cut off after three and a half seconds. I was sitting in the right rear seat on the flight deck where I could look out the overhead windows. I had a wrist mirror, so I pointed the mirror out and looked down the side of the vehicle toward the flame trench. After the engines cut off and the master alarms were turned off, what I saw was a hydrogen fire rolling up the side of the vehicle. I thought, “Holy shit! We’re gonna die!” Fortunately, the launch controllers quickly got everything safed. Jerry Ross on the middeck said, “Are we moving?” My eyes shifted from the overhead window to the commander and pilot who were throwing switches. As I looked out Steve Nagel’s window, I saw the gantry moving. I was thinking, “The launch pad’s moving. No, it’s not the pad. It’s us!” We swayed six feet (two meters) one way, and then six feet (two meters) the other direction. Eight three-and-a-half-inch-diameter (nine-centimeter-diameter) bolts clamp the shuttle’s boosters to the pad. Going back and forth, I was thinking, “I sure hope those damn bolts hold! If they don’t, we’re dead!” It took a good ten minutes or so for the swaying to damp out.