In a previous life, well a part of this one actually, I worked in the UK university sector. A part of my job was to do with course quality and I sat on a number of fairly soporific committees in which syllabuses were given the OK. I entertained the external examiners and oversaw the award of degree in one year. I even signed it off for around 100 students. Universities do quality control on the degree courses of other universities. The “elite” accredit each other. It is my opinion that the quality and difficulty of degrees in UK Chemistry is subject to some variance. The exam papers at Oxford are peculiarly hard and esoteric in physical chemistry, I doubt students entering a course not requiring good maths would have a chance. Like all things once an exam is sat and a qualification gained, about 90% of it is forgotten. I learned more chemistry teaching “A” level as a private tutor than I did in my degree. It stuck better for having to explain.

Who accredits the new age teacher?

Who accredits a guru?

I do not know if there is any agreed syllabus and who hands out the certificate of enlightenment?

If one was trying to approach a new age bookseller or publisher it might help the marketability to have an endorsement from some establishment figure. Maybe a recommendation from Thurman or Gere would help sales. Without some provenance it would be a hard sell.

In the blog there is various dreaming “evidence” for some prior incarnations which would not be accepted as proof in a court of law. Within that context the “fact” that I can remember at all might suggest some experience in at death mind transference. We could extrapolate that I might know how to do this. I do not mix in the circles where I could be accredited by some authority figure or other.

We get a chicken or egg situation. I could not get an audience to teach dream yoga to until I had an audience / client list willing to testify positively. It could only be by “Trustpilot” like reviews that I could develop any credibility. Nobody would know for sure that I did not make these up myself.

How would one start?

How would one ensure good quality control?

How would one police appropriate behaviour?

How could one get insurance in case people went stark raving mad?

From my prior background there are quite a few questions. There are clear problems with accreditation and there are no results league tables. Which has more enlightened graduates, Zen, Theravada or Mahayana? What about the casualty rate in Vajrayana?

Buddhism is established and has a long track record.

Viewed from a perspective of Higher Education the entire new age sector looks poorly organised and a bit flaky. Maybe Trump should charge a tariff on the sales of Snake Oil?

I have met a number of so-called Lucid dreamers and they have used a bizarre expression “dream teacher”. That made me question their clarity / sanity. A lot try to draw from dream psychology and blend this hybrid with new age-y / dream yoga type jargon. Some weird kind of hotch-potch with pseudo-scientific credibility as an add on.

There are real problems with accreditation and by inference quality control. Anybody, perhaps including me, could set themselves up on a soap box.