Dear Louis, >> There were some posts a while back that dealt with what happens hermetically when one uses different kinds of drugs. I was wondering if using LSD would cause as much damage to the violet cord if one were to have the mental tenacity to not be filled with delusion while being intoxicated. << While one would still experience the same physical effects, the mental effect, and therefore any damage to the violet cord which integrates the solitary mental body with the astral body, could be negated through a high degree of mental awareness and discipline. However, such a degree of mental discipline presupposes the ability to create these mental states (actually, states superior to drug induced states) for oneself without the ingestion of LSD. It's this ability and the fact that one would be well aware of the significance of these states and familiar with them in advance, that subverts any damage to the violet cord. In other words, damage to the violet cord specifically, arises when the experience rudely exceeds ones level of understanding in an out-of-control fashion. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 24 Jan 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe