A degree through life-experience acquired during a past life

I have read previously that there have been beloved household pets who have been awarded degrees (sometimes advanced degrees) in recognition of life experience and reported achievement. I would like to honor the family pet in my daughter's household (a tortoise) by helping it obtain a college degree. While it (outwardly) has no obvious credit-worthy experience, it has been speculated that the reptile in question might have been Genghis Kahn in a former life. Surely such historically documented experience is credit worthy. The tortoise will not need the degree for employment, appears unable to read and is unlikely suited to be able to sit for exams (CLEP, Dantes, ECE, etc) but must surely have amassed considerable knowledge and experience in what might have been its previous life. Consequently a degree from an unaccredited, unrecognized, 100% life-experience granting institution might best suit its needs.

The tortoise is believed to have the following qualifications and experience:

Expert knowledge in a sub-area of herpetology: reptile behavior and motivations studies

Has demonstrated advanced problem solving and reasoning skills when traversing bark, water-bowels and mustard-greens.

Successfully completed a three-month internship in a pet-shop.

Has acquired and demonstrated human-resource and managements skills (as Genghis Kahn in the 12th and 13th century), and exhibited a leadership role while organizing and orchestrating the efforts of mass hordes of warriors.



While much of the tortoise's experience may not be verifiable through such established practices as past-life regression therapy and hypnosis, this is primarily due to physical, mental and species specific limitations. Species bias, and inapplicable or inappropriate verification practices should not be allowed to limit the animal's academic potential. It will be the first tortoise in its family to have earned a college degree, therefore I ask the members of the forum for their suggestions on how such an accomplished animal should proceed.



Please also note that my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek on this post, and I may not be able to remove it without the help of other members of this forum.

Intro-

 

If I help you remove it, can I get life credit towards a degree in maxillofacial surgery?

 

Gosh, I'd have to dig out my old copy of Bear's Guide, 9th ed., to find out which Colorado university offers degrees to dogs and their humans. Think they might offer degrees to turtles, too?

 

To this worthy endeavor I'd like to add my own meager contribution. In a previous bit of research I discovered that Norma Ross, PhD , the President of that fine institution the Intenational University for Graduate Studies. located (where else) on the isle of St. Kitts, has her PhD in Hypnotherapy. All things considered you might start your search at IUGS.

Jack

 

Perhaps the seminary of the Grand Duke of the Holy Russian Empire could facilitate this worthy objective. The good Chief Swift Eagle has quite an array of academic opportunities................

 

I think it was the 7th or 8th edition when I included, as the made-up school I always put in, to help protect the copyright, Karma University, which gave full credit for all past life experience. To see what would happen, I included a real PO Box, and there were far too many serious inquiries.

 

Found my old 9th ed. of Bear's Guide. You want Argus University in Fairplay, Colorado.

 

OK...

Traditional Hindu and Buddhist cosmology doesn't include an initial creation. Time extends indefinitely, and perhaps infinitely, into the past.

Many kinds of existence are posited, from all the various hells in the basement, to the most refined formless heavens up on top.

All of these modes of being are occupied by countless sentients: hell-beings, ghosts and demons, animals, inhabitants of higher planes, the glorious gods in all of their mind-boggling splendor, and the most refined formless consciousnesses corresponding to high meditational states.

(Actually, this mythological stuff shouldn't be summarily dismissed, because it represents an interesting typology of psychological modes of living and their ultimate fruits.)

But all of these countless beings are mortal. They are all transient. They all transmigrate. Flies die in days, gods live millions of years. But even gods die eventually and are reborn according to their karma. (Being a god actually isn't a very auspicious state because of all of the temptations.)

And since time is essentially infinite, each one of us has occupied all of these roles and have been all of these things at some time in the past. We have all been in hell. We have all been snails and slugs. We have been beggars, scholars and kings. We have all enjoyed heaven. And we have all been gods.

That's a LOT of past-life experience.

Think of the degrees!

If I've been a god, then who deserves a past-life-experience Th.D. more than me? And if I've also been a horrible hell-demon, a D.D. (diabolical doctor) might look good on my wall. And everything in between. Everything.

 

I have not seen much good, publishable research coming from hell demons lately.

 

Past life

I worked with a nut, I mean woman once who claimed she was a Roman Centurion in a past life. What kind of degree would be appropriate there? Bachelors in Military history?

 

Naw. California Highway Patrol.

 

For some strange reason, I feel that I was Shirley McClain in a previous life... Suppose that qualifies me for some royalities??







I didn't think so, but it was worth a try!

 

Those journals are located in the "RESTRICTED" section of the library.
Jack

 

Re: Past life

Past Master at Arms.

 

Bill Dayson: And since time is essentially infinite, each one of us has occupied all of these roles and have been all of these things at some time in the past.

John:
So there we were sitting on the shore of Lake Manosarovar at the foot of Mt. Kailas in western Tibet, getting our daily dharma talk from Bob Thurman, when the sun came up, and huge swarms of sand flies came awake, and literally covered us. People responded with much agitation, some swatting, some brushing, all trying to cover up. Thurman said, "If you really buy into this Buddhist thinking, then every single one of these flies was once your mother - so don't swat them."

 

My knowledge of reincarnation is decidedly imperfect but as I understand it, a persons Mom must have collected some REALLY bad karma in order to backslide to the sand fly level.
Jack

 

Wasn't Genghis Kahn a Karaite?

 

B.A. in Latin