Reddit mentions of Chant and Be Happy: The Power of Mantra Meditation (Contemporary Vedic Library Series)

Fun second half. Turns out I have thoughts about mantras.

• Beginning didn't really do it for me, but felt like it picked up about halfway through.
  
• I really really like the mantra/chanting theme that carries the second half. Strong concept. It was a couple of minutes from the mantra-explanation sample to when anything of the sort showed up; I think I would have preferred that gap to be much smaller. Would have helped drive home the intentionality of the whole thing.
  
• The alien-code / deciphering sample later on kind of kills the theme, despite there being some chanting after that.
  
• The mantra-explanation sample makes pretty explicit this weird exoticism that psy has sometimes. (Ooh, capital E-Eastern religions, how mystical! etc.) Not sure if the tracks would have allowed for it, but I would have really enjoyed heading straight into ... I dunno, like, Gregorian chant after that. Play with it a bit.
  
• Okay, whatever, I'm losing the thread on the bullet points here, but I don't care. A long time ago on the beach in San Diego some Hare Krishnas gave me this book. (I have not even thought about this book in probably 10 years.) One part of the book suggests that chanting "coca cola" is intrinsically less satisfying than chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. I don't really buy that there's anything spiritually significant to that, but there's definitely something that could be done with ad slogans as consumerist pseudo-mantra something something.
  
• tl;dr I found the concept engaging and I wish this song could have fit in somehow.