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Stream Entry is a Theravada Buddhist term for the first of 4 stages or paths of awakening. A precise model has been created but it tends to be only useful if you have a certain mental makeup and you engage in the practices with a certain degree of intensity. Even then it feels to me like too much effort to make a subjective process set of experiences into a hard and fast model masquerading as authoritative and true.

I'm not so familiar with your stages model so I can't really comment. Based on your last paragraph, my engagement with meditation comes from a very different place than yours. It started in order to stabelize attention after an ADHD diagnosis; a way to get off meds. Quickly that was left behind and the real focus was enlightenment, spiritual awakening or whatever you want to call it. It was motivated by a deep spontaneous inner faith that there was something to it and it was important that I go 100% into it and discover for myself. It was not based on research or attempting to find the best approach to make my mind measurably more effective. I just felt a powerful internal yearning for awakening and I had to follow it.