I am as close to a real world example of this, I suppose, as one can get. I started with a double major approach but ended up with a more ambiguous bachelors then masters degree. What I lost in the process was job marketability. What I did achieve, however, was personal spiritual transformation. I found myself through the process of writing my two theses and I left my higher education with that deep sense of satisfaction and inner conviction. I turned my education into a spiritual journey.
My spiritual practice, primarily, is to study epic story in written and visual forms across time and cultures, interpret dreams, and establish as unmaterialistic a life as I can muster. Furthermore, I have found a mode of spiritual play, what Jung might call alchemy, which is endlessly satisfying to me. It comes in the form of playing modded Minecraft in a comprehensive way as a process of discovering and progressively developing an "elegant, holistic and conservational logistics". This provides my psyche, which is a logical designer, to grapple with a comprehensive approach to managing practical needs and necessities in such a way as to promote my personal values and support a community approach.