Our History

During the 1960s, Nur's fascination with indigenous ceremonial music led him to study various cultures in which it was either a way of life or an integral part of a connection with the entire Universe. As a college student though, he found no courses through which to pursue his interests. "Nothing combined anthropology, religion and psychology, so I elected to study paranormal psychology" he recalls.

In the mid-1970s, while researching his doctoral thesis on the music used by Himalayan shamans, Nur received an invitation from the Nepalese government to study indigenous science. " I spent the next two years studying the frequency domain of a shaman” the use of the voice, drum and bells, which invoke the psycho-acoustical states;" says Nur, " and that opened doors for me throughout the Himalayas."

In Nepal, Nur lived in a monastery in the Kumbhu region near Mount Everest and studied the Nyingma tradition, the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Upon his return to the U.S., author and National Geographic photographer Deborah Denker introduced Nur to a Bon lama who was a member of one of the five original families of Tibet. Fifteen years later, after I completed my studies on preliminary practices with him and other Bon lamas, I suddenly went from " outsider to insider," Nur relates, " and had easier access to heavily guarded instructions on various techniques, empowerments and certain instruments used to facilitate a psycho-acoustical state, which I consider a version of hypnosis."

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