Healing Mantras was written by Thomas Ashley-Farrand whom I've dealt with before. The thing about mantras is that you have to receive an oral transmission from the guru of the mantras (or listen to his recording) and you're wasting your time reading it from a book. A mantra receives its power based on the LoC (level of consciousness) of the teacher. Thomas Ashley-Farrand is not as high on the LoC scale as someone like Sri Siva.
If you get a tape or CD of Sri Siva, then you essentially have Sri Siva and you have the empowered mantras of Sri Siva. this is much better than a book by Ashley-Farrand. (And yes, he has lately become unresponsive. He blames it on his extensive lecture tours, but still ...)
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