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From: jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.EDU (Jeff Burka)
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Subject: chants
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Jorn writes:

>Maybe we should all take a deep breath, hold hands, and chant "Om" or 
>something...

Shouldn't that be "om mani padme hum"?

(BTW, does anybody know exactly why KaTe used this in "Strange Phenomena"?
The very first time I heard the song I got really freaked out 'cause either
that day or the day before I'd finished reading Heinlein's _Fear No Evil_,
in which the "om mani padme hum" mantra is used quite a bit.  I'd never heard
the phrase before, and it was just a bit too much of a coincidence to read
the phrase for the first time and then suddenly hear it in a song about
strange phenomena)

Jeff

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