Embassy University

This one is interesting... "night meditation" earns you various degrees.

Embassy University has been authorized by the Department of Education of the state of Florida to grant degrees as an independent educational institution having its own curriculum.

The good news is that a twelve-year-old can apply.

The cost (if any) is unclear.

https://embassy.university/courses

 

They found a misdirecting way to describe their standing with the state of Florida. They operate under a religious exemption from state oversight.

This appears to be a project from Bill Gothard, who was head of the Institute in Basic Life Principles until not long after he was accused in a 2014 lawsuit of "sexually, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and/or psychologically" abusing teenage girls and young women "over the course of decades."

 

maybe that's what they mean by "night mediation"

 

Florida has one of the most stupidly low bars for religious exemption that I've ever seen. Virginia is pretty lax but they, at least, require a fee of a few hundred bucks to get your exemption approved. Florida? Cheap and easy. I treat approval there as a red flag particularly when the school isn't actually based in Florida.

It would, perhaps, be a little less offensive I think if Florida didn't have a law prohibiting unaccredited doctorates being used publicly and then promptly exempting anyone with a doctorate from one of their religious exemption schools.

 

Kizmet, you make an interesting distinction between night "mediation" and meditation. Maybe both apply... and they could offer courses in both.