Holos University: Norfolk Island Expands its University System

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  1. Guest

    Guest Guest

    It seems that Norfolk Island is expanding its educational network, with the addition of a new university. www.holosuniversity-edu.org , while maintaining an affilliation with Greenwich University, is now administratively separate from GU. According to the Holos web site, GU is a fully accredited university of the Commonwealth of Australia-Norfolk Island.

    Of course, a caveat is in order. Holos degrees are illegal in Oregon. [​IMG]

    Russell
     
  2. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    This is interesting. Apparently there has been some turmoil in Greenwich University circles around "energy medicine", which sounds to me like something dangerously close to medical quackery.

    This energy medicine thing seems to have started out under the auspices of Greenwich, spearheaded by a C. Norman Shealey, founder of a small Science of Mind spinoff church in Missouri.

    Then in 2000 Shealey moved his energy medicine operation from Greenwich to South Dakota (at least on paper) and started up his own Holos University for Graduate Studies in Integral Energy Medicine.
      http://www.holosuniversity-edu.org/University/HolosUniv.htm

    One can only speculate if this was an attempt to 'sanitize' Greenwich prompted by its AQF inspection. Perhaps Shealey just wanted more control over his own operation. But whatever was happening, HUGSIEM continued to call itself both an 'affiliate' and a 'college within' Greenwich University. Which, by the way, is described as being "fully accredited" by the "Commonwealth of Australia- Norfolk Island".

    Well, South Dakota didn't like becoming a world center for questionable schools, and elbowed them all out. And in 2001 Holos transformed itself into Holos University Graduate Seminary, now located back where Shealey apparently started, and probably remained all along, Springfield Missouri. Except now it isn't offering Ph.D.s but rather Th.D.s, probably in order to take advantage of a religious exemption to state university licensing regulations in Missouri. HUGS is now a unit of Shealey's International Science of Mind Church for Spiritual Healing.
    http://www.hugs-edu.org/

    Awww... How could anyone criticize a school called HUGS??

    Along with the move came an apparent loosening of ties with Greenwich's energy medicine operations, which are now described as being a similar but totally "separtate" program under the direction of a Dr. Bernard Williams. Greenwich still offers masters and Ph.D.s in energy medicine. Perhaps this distancing was necessary to comply with a Missouri religious exemption, I don't know. But we are assured that Greenwich still accepts all of HUGS' credits in transfer.
     
  3. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    I had some interaction with Dr. Shealy (his MD and PhD are traditional) when Holos was first mentioned on this forum. He wrote about a lot of misunderstanding that occurred between Holos and Greenwich and, especially, the International Institute, which Shealy believed to be a Missouri non-profit entity long after Greenwich apparently let the nonprofit corporation go there (perhaps in 1992 or 3, a year or two after I left). It sounded to me as if Shealy was sufficiently distressed at Greenwich to take a separation action -- but then he was also adamant that Holos could operate legally from its convenience address in South Dakota.

    John Bear, en route
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