Is this why there's no publicly visible progress on your book, Kenneth?
I can suggest another two directions for building a more comprehensive map. They both have very good explanatory and predictive power.
I'll give a brief overview and can go on with more details on request.
First. The model of cessation event from The Mind Illuminated book.
1. Our mind is composed of multiple sub-minds organized in complex forest-like hierarchies.
2. These sub-minds can form committees with different agendas/intentions.
3. They debate, and the winning committee takes the executive seat and from now on is both observer and producer of experience.
4. Other sub-minds either follow the winner or shut up and hide.
5. With training in concentration we can unite more and more sub-minds under the same intention.
6. Cessation event happens when there is a committee of sub-minds as observer but for some reason they do not produce any experience. So it's blank, no space, no time.
7. But this cessation event is observed only by the committee that is now in the executive seat. Those hiding do not have the direct knowledge of emptiness.
8. Subsequent cessation events are (hopefully) observed by more and more sub-minds, eventually by all of them as one.
This, for example, can explain why for some people first cessation produces major changes in thinking and behavior, and for some only minor if at all. There can be a very small but powerful "meditator committee" that effectively shuts down every other part of mind but itself. This "meditator" observes cessation, he is happy and his belief in himself may actually get reinforced, but the "actor" remains just the same.
The more separated our beings are, the more different committees there are, the more unification we need for cessation to produce real changes.
We can also derive some falsifiable predictions from this model and wait for some ingenious bastard to test them.
Second. Enneagram as the global cyclic pattern of change for every process. From the book Essential Wholeness.
For reference —
www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/
I've always neglected the "types" part in the AQAL formula (All Quadrants, All Levels, All States, All Lines, All Types). The time has come to dig deeper and I was blown away but what I've found.
Enneagram does not only describe 9 types of personality that people can express, it is also a pattern of cyclical change that every known system seems to follow. Humans, cells, societies, families, ecosystems, economies, galaxies.
And as every system is a holon (both part and whole), for example, a single person evolves following this pattern and at the same time plays a part in evolution of society as a specific type. I am type 5, and my role in the wholes I inhabit is to relentlessly ask the question why. But I still evolve through all the steps of the cycle in structure-stage and state-stage development.
There are also complex interactions inside the cycle, interactions between different steps/types etc.
Understanding this cycle, where the particular person is in personal development and what role she/he plays in surrounding groups, I believe is of great practical value.