Beware of Fake Dr. Theresa M. Kelly Scam Artist and her bogus "university"

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  1. OpalMoon34

    OpalMoon34 member

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    Fake "Dr." Theresa M. Kelly

    Has any of you heard of the University of Alternative Studies (http://qpsychics.com/university/index.html)? The founder is fake "Dr." Theresa M. Kelly who, I have gathered, did not even finish high school. He received her bogus doctorate of metaphysics from the notorious Universal Life Church (ULC).

    Do you know of any other unaccredited "distance learning" diploma mills like UAS that are founded by uneducated scam artists (who often go by the title "Dr.") and are offering useless "degrees" in New Age philosophy and psychism? If you do then please let us warn the public here by replying with their names and the names of their founders.
     
  2. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Opal - I think you're being overly harsh. After all, she is kind of cute (although I'd advise her to soften her smile a bit). Also, a degree of this sort is not entirely useless. A person with a little initiative and a bit of money might open up a storefront offering tarot readings or that whole tea leaves thing. It might keep you alive, if you pick the right location. The diploma on the wall will surely convince customers, not to mention being able to use the perfect letters after her name in the local print ads. Of course, she could do this without any "schooling," just boot up the old printer and crank out a diploma. For this purpose I'd choose a gothic font as being most suitable. In many local arts and crafts shops you can buy a gold seal. If you want to go that extra mile then google translator will say it in Latin for you (or probably Babylonian if you want). I think that we should view this as a person with entrepenurial spirit; a con (wo)man who wants to walk you down that mystical path that leads to your bank account. After all Opal, all those dollars that you've been saving won't keep you warm when you're floating through the neverneverland of the mystical hereafter, now will they?:sgrin:
     
  3. DanaWalker

    DanaWalker New Member

    Ummmm…... this university has a wonderful reputation, especially in the professional scientific parapsychology community, as does she. Considering most of the students at the U have graduate degrees or better, well… I think they can view the curriculums and academic quality of the courses for themselves to see how prestigious the info is and come to their own conclusions.

    As a consciousness scholar myself, I was highly impressed by the curriculum and many of her recent papers are outstanding and written at the doctoral level, which when it comes to interdisciplinary fields, that’s damn near impossible for most ‘accredited’ PhDs. To much weight is put on degrees in this country, and she appears to me to be more intelligent than most of the 'academic' PhDs that I know.

    Also, considering the fields she teaches, parapsychology, metaphysics, along with emerging fields you CANT get a degree in, only learn through tirelessly reading though research journals, and considering that she IS professionally affiliated with some very prestigious professional associations that are pretty darn picky who they let in, I think Opal is being more than harsh, more like a conspiracy theorist that likes dishing out accusations of criminal conduct with nothing viable to support the claim.

    In her case, the ‘Dr.’ title, is simply that, a legal title, not a mark of an academic background, it’s her work that proves her worth. If you take the time to look at her background, granted it’s based on ‘what she says,” but it’s pretty extensive -- education and research. Not that I should really have to type all this up in the first place, like I said, intelligent people can tell when someone doesn’t know what they are talking about or teaching, and this woman’s wok reflects that of a true expert.

    While these degrees may not be sufficient in the regular “job world” because they are not accredited, they are vey useful if one wants to direct their current profession into the para-sciences. The references she uses in these programs are written by the best and brightest in their respective fields, so anyone who can understand all those fields at once in order to develop programs of such wonderful quality deserves nothing less than the utmost respect in my book. I admire her for taking such bold entrepreneurial action to fill an educational need in these fields.

    Here is a link directly to her profile on the USA site: University of Alternative Studies - Faculty Members

    And one of her recent papers: Models of Psi Mediation: A Classical and Quantum Approach (Theresa M. Kelly) - Academia.edu

    D. Walker
     
  4. bpreachers

    bpreachers New Member

    Right so you join this forum on the exact day that someone talks down about a "school" that is unaccredited and OBVIOUSLY a mail order degree (I mean seriously 495.95 for a BA in telekenetic studies LMAO). Your response is not suspect at all :hmmm::hmmm::hmmm::hmmm::hmmm:
     
  5. 03310151

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  6. imalcolm

    imalcolm New Member

    I like the certificate in Pyrokinetic Studies! Only $49.95
    University of Alternative Studies: Pyrokinetic Studies

    Seriously though, without commenting about the quality of this unaccredited school... I can't entirely discount psi/ESP. I think there have been a couple legitimate studies on "psychic" phenomena that have shown a small but reproducible effect.
     
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  7. bpreachers

    bpreachers New Member

    I especially enjoyed their "how psychic are you" test lmao.

    I fully believe that there are unknown forces in our world/universe however this "school" is a pile of trash selling meaningless useless degrees. Would it be a conversation starter if hung on a while? Sure, but only as a joke just like the Ordained Minister of Dudology certificate I have at home lol. Granted it was a much lower waste of money at only 9.99 lol.
     
  8. AdjunctInstructor

    AdjunctInstructor New Member

    Yea right bla bla bla Universal Life Church enough said LOL
     
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  9. AdjunctInstructor

    AdjunctInstructor New Member

     
  10. GeeBee

    GeeBee Member

    Is there really such a thing as a professional scientific parapsychology community? Really?
     
  11. 03310151

    03310151 Active Member

    Really? I would love to read those studies. I'm not calling you out or anything but do you happen to have link to these studies?
     
  12. imalcolm

    imalcolm New Member

    Check this out:
    Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
    And this Wired article:
    Feeling The Future: Is Precognition Possible? | Wired Science | Wired.com
    Here's the study referenced in the Wired article:
    http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf
    Also check out a review of some research into remote viewing for intel purposes:
    http://www.lfr.org/lfr/csl/library/AirReport.pdf
     
  13. 03310151

    03310151 Active Member

    Cool. Thanks for the links, looks like good stuff.
     
  14. OpalMoon34

    OpalMoon34 member

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    Scam Artist "Dr." Theresa M. Kelly


    Dr. Kelly was born (1981) in Minnesota to Michael Kelly and Debra Kelly; she is an only child. Her mother attended nursing school and her father is a Vietnam War veteran. After the war, he attended college and majored in mathematics,minored in psychology, and later received his master's in astronomy. Both of her parents are Catholic. After her parent’s annulment, her mother continued to raise her in the Catholic faith. Kelly began her religious studies early in life through constant exposure to religious education at the Crucifixion School in La Crescent, Minnesota. In her early teens, she moved to Charleston, South Carolina and began to self-study other religions and philosophies throughout the world and history. Throughout the next few years she less identified herself as a Catholic and more of a follower of her studies. She began her research and firsthand studies in psychical phenomena just before her twenties.

    Experients of psychical phenomena from all over the area sought her out with no prior knowledge of her interests. She considered her luck to be a calling to the field of metaphysics. She worked alongside individuals with modest to heightened psychical abilities in her early years and conducted the beginning stages of her psychical research. In 1998, she began providing private free and fee based metaphysical and parapsychological consulting and accelerated her hands-on experience and informal studies guided by an array of scientific, religious and spiritual professionals. In 2004, she created an online identity for herself and since then has answered thousands of emails and posts from readers and site visitors all over the world. In 2006, her site moved to a new domain and the website became a place of networking and learning for others with metaphysical and parapsychology interests.

    Shortly after obtaining her legal honorary doctorate of metaphysics in 2008 from ULC, she published her first bestselling book, Quantum Psychics, a guide to understanding, controlling and enhancing psychical abilities along with several publications including books and papers in the field of metaphysics with an emphasis in parapsychology. Her publications are exclusively focused on her firsthand experiences and professional opinion regarding an array of extrasensory and psychokinetic phenomena. In 2009, she began offering her parapsychological and psychical expert consulting services internationally through her website. She continues to be active in psychical research through her research group QP Psychical Research Inc. (QPPR – QPPResearch Inc.) and continues to provide private local consulting services.

    Dr. Kelly later founded the University of Alternative Studies in late 2009, which offers Bachelor of Science degree programs in various psychical studies. The University has since received prominent support from both the parapsychological and paraphysical community. Her mission is to direct experients of, and those with interests regarding, psychical phenomena towards comparable scientific principles and theories. She does so as a means to promote practical alternative, medical, and scientific applications of psychical phenomena with confidence in the importance of utilizing the investigative mode of the established sciences in order to inquire into the authenticity and to potentially explain the nature of psychical phenomena. She believes that with a greater emphasis upon practical applications of psychical phenomena, improvement can be accomplished towards parapsychology’s reception among other scientists and the scientific community via innovative concepts and methods of experimentation. (source: WikiMystica)
     
  15. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    Notice the use of legal honorary doctorate of metaphysics.

    To answer the question about parapsychological research, there are in fact several regionally accredited schools where various parapsychology study, scholarship, and research is conducted. Maharishi University comes to mind, and I know John F. Kennedy University has a Consciousness Studies degree program, and I believe that Institute for Transpersonal Psychology also has something in that realm, just to name a couple.

    But... that said, the quality and academic rigor of most of the parapsychological research I've seen leaves a lot to be desired... problems with methodology, data analysis, and conclusions tend to make most of the studies I've seen questionable at best.

    I do think there's something here to be studied, but, much the same as with holistic medicine, most of the people studying it don't have the sort of academic background and rigor to be able to mount a really well-designed and controlled study.
     
  16. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Yesh......
     
  17. Koolcypher

    Koolcypher Member

    I like how they "borrowed" FIU's logo.
     
  18. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    I have to respectfully disagree.
     
  19. mcjon77

    mcjon77 Member

    I would have to respectfully disagree with your disagreement. She isn't smoking hot, but she is cute. However, that first photo of her makes her eyes look black like the demons on the TV show Supernatural, which is ironic considering her profession. Then again, it would be pretty cool if she could actually make her eyes black like that, and would make her 5 times sexier.
     
  20. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    I must be VERY psychic because I'm certain of the future of this thread.
     

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