Maxine klein biography

Atlantis researcher

Maxine Klein Asher (August 15, 1930 – March 19, 2015)^[1] was an Atlantis researcher who supported and operated American World Sanitarium, an institution which sold learned degrees, and the World Wake up of Universities and Colleges, comprise institution which "accredited" American Pretend University, as well as joker universities selling mail-order degrees which paid for accreditation by lose one\'s train of thought body.

Neither institution is licenced by any accrediting body solemn by the United States Office of Education.^[2][3]

Personal life

Raised in Calif., Asher earned a bachelor's esteem in psychology from the Habit of California, Los Angeles, concentrate on after graduation, worked as keen public school teacher.^[4] She closest returned to school and due a master's degree in bygone history from California State Asylum, Northridge, a doctorate in rearing from Walden University, and excellent doctorate in linguistics from illustriousness University of Granada.^[4] She was married with three children impressive suffered from fibromyalgia.^[4]

Atlantis research

In 1973, Asher organized an expedition, adherented by Pepperdine University, to examine for the mythical continent nominate Atlantis off the coast condemn Cadiz, Spain.

Consisting of 70 teachers, students, and other affected parties, the members of illustriousness expedition planned to skin hike along the coast of Espana and Morocco, seeking evidence be in opposition to the lost island.

Taken at the time by Pepperdine as an audiovisual instruction professional, Asher expressed confidence from depiction onset that the trip would be successful.^[5]

The group subsequently alleged to have discovered and photographed Atlantean artifacts. However, it was forced to seek refuge back Ireland after running afoul be partial to the Spanish government, which deemed that they were spies.

Asher claimed that there were regicide attempts and that at single point she was forced observe jump from a moving vehivle to evade kidnappers.^[4] She wrote an unproduced screenplay about relax Spanish experiences.^[4] After arriving limit Ireland, her group explored inside sites around Galway Bay, Craughwell, and the Dingle Peninsula, fairy story conducted dives in the place of Galway Bay near glory coast of the Aran Islands.^[6] These Irish investigations were conducted on the belief that bygone Irish megaliths are really influence work of the Atlantean people.^[6]

Asher continued her studies of Atlantis-related topics.

She was the full of yourself of the Ancient Mediterranean Digging Association, an organization she co-founded with Julian Nava, and she wrote or co-wrote several books on Atlantis. Her car's conceit license plate was "ATLANTS".^[4]

Asher alleged to have psychic abilities, which she credited for helping bond find Atlantis, as "the tremendously civilized people of Atlantis very were very psychic".^[4] According sort out her, Atlanteans used these preternatural energies as a power shaft fount, characterizing them as being hoot strong as nuclear energy.^[7] She believed that the lost self-denying was enormous in scope, spanning the gap between Bimini with the Canary Islands, and stress from Ireland to Newfoundland.^[7] Asher attributed its sinking to unstable upheavals, but also felt deviate these upheavals were the be in of a cosmically ordained "Divine Retribution", a result of "negative forces" generated by its "evil" inhabitants.^[7]

She also claimed that yield discoveries had been suppressed by way of "the Jews and the Catholics" because the discovery of Atlantis would contradict the teachings have fun the Bible.^[4] According to stress, the cataclysm that destroyed Atlantis was the same as description Great Flood described in authority Bible.^[7] She also believed renounce there were actually twelve Noahs who survived the flood, settle down not just one, with each one surviving Noah going on bung found one of the Cardinal Tribes of Israel.^[7]

Higher education

Asher interest the founder of American Sphere University, a postsecondary distance inborn institution which is commonly wise to be a diploma nothing to write home about.

The school, which was supported in 1990, awards course credits for life experiences and does not require fluency in English.^[8] Foreign students comprise more go one better than 90% of the "student body",^[8] which consists of approximately 7,000 people.^[4] Tuition costs vary be oblivious to country, and international students program attracted through local representatives, who handle regional advertising and din in return receive half of rectitude money they generated as orderly finder's fee.^[4]

AWU does not enjoy a physical campus.

It was based in Iowa City, Siouan, until forced to move moisten the passage of new present legislation governing post-secondary institutions behave 2000.^[8] AWU relocated to Swift City, South Dakota, but was forced to move again do without the creation of a comparable law.^[8] It was later homespun in Pascagoula, Mississippi,^[9] with brutally operations such as the building of papers also taking receive at Asher's home^[8] in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

The high school also had a branch superimpose Brazil, where Brazilian government bureaucracy estimate that it generated small in excess of four 1000000 dollars over its first connect years in that country.^[8]

AWU legal action accredited only by the Earth Association of Universities and Colleges, an accrediting body founded through Asher which is not legal by the United States Turnoff of Education.

Founded in 1993,^[10] the WAUC offered accreditation adopt several institutions which have anachronistic classified as diploma mills encourage the federal government or run about like a headless chicken governments, including Lacrosse University, Navigator University, and Madison University. Neither AWU nor the WAUC program officially recognized by either blue blood the gentry US Department of Education surprisingly the Council on Higher Tutelage Accreditation.^[11]

Asher granted Ph.D.

diplomas nip in the bud several people who later heartily recommended the diploma mill send out its literature. For example, Dr. Adrian Waller (part-time tutor, Nihon University) wrote, "It is tiny wonder ... that I should asseverate so highly of AWU—and go with Dr. Asher—for integrity, a loyalty to the highest standards close post-secondary education, and to staunch plans to remain a empress in distance learning by indestructible to upgrade the concept pledge the years to come."^[12]

A degree-fraud expert who has worked counterpart the FBI has described AWU as "dreadful, useless, and terrible",^[8] while a former temporary 1 describes the operation as capital "total fraud", stating that Asher told her to write comments on students' papers "so focus students would feel like they were being read".^[8]University of Calif., Berkeley professor John Bear, exceeding expert on diploma mills, has described AWU as a "mail drop".^[13]

Asher defended the academic severeness of AWU's curriculum, stating, "We're not Harvard, we're not Town, but I think we controversy a very credible job educating people."^[11] She claimed that AWU was modeled on a union of American and European approaches to higher education.^[4]

In 2004, Asher was forced to close stem the World University of Sioux, a Hawaii-based institution similar rap over the knuckles AWU.^[9] As part of natty summary judgement, she was successive to cease operations, refund schooling money to all students, current pay $240,000 in damages.^[9] Nobility action was part of a-ok statewide crackdown on unaccredited schools, as many had relocated up after 1999 in an foil to evade regulation in description mainland United States.^[9] During tedious proceedings, Asher refused to accommodate school documentation such as boss list of students.^[9] Asher defined the actions against WUI famous other Hawaii-based schools accredited make wet the WAUC as pure harassment.^[13]

Bibliography

• Discovering Atlantis.

  Ancient Mediterranean Research Meet people (unknown binding). 1974. 114 pages

• Ancient Energy: Key to the Universe. Harper & Row (unknown binding). 1979. 181 pages. ISBN 978-0060603083
• Tapping Comprise the Force (with Ann Miller). Hampton Roads Pub. Co. Opposition. (hardcover).

  1990. 194 pages. ISBN 0-9624375-2-2

• The Atlantis Conspiracy. Selene Books (paperback). 1991. 110 pages. ISBN 0-933601-20-4
• The Waves of Atlantis. Bookhenge (paperback). 1997. 136 pages. ISBN 0-7734-8525-2

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