 Originally released in a sleeve with a Sun Ra doodle, the better known cover, designed by Richard Pedreguera, was in place by 1969.Pedreguera also designed the sleeve for "The Nubians of Plutonia" at around the same time.The album has increasingly been discussed within the context of anticipating psychedelia  or pointing towards the funk of George Clinton;

'Clinton's astral ritual seems as inspired by the Nation of Islam as it is by Sun Ra, and when asked about the Ra in 1979, Clinton said, "This boy was definitely out to lunch - the same place I eat at."