[3] In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "This album was all but ignored upon release.

[4] Colin Buttimer of the BBC singled out "Om Namah Sivaya" for praise, calling it "a gorgeous nineteen minutes that stand a mile out in terms of event, exploration, inter-communication... music that makes you sit up and take notice.

"[6] Joseph Neff of The Vinyl District stated that, with the album, Coltrane "move[d] away from the jazz core in earnest," and suggested that "Om Namah Sivaya" may bring to mind Ornette Coleman's recordings with his son Denardo.

[5] In an article for Spectrum Culture, Daniel Bromfield noted that most of the album's "sparks of genius come in the background: odd chords backing the Sanskrit chants, canny moments when the call-and-response repetition of the Hindu music starts to tangle limbs with black church music."

Regarding "Om Namah Sivaya," he commented: "The sound of her instrument changes in sudden, eerie, ramshackle ways, as if she's accidentally switched the settings—or maybe something else has descended on the room and done it for her.