Reddit reviews A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World (Philosophy of Mind)
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u/psychoalchemist found his PhD.
I put together some resources I could find, if you have any areas of concern maybe we can find other studies just let me know.
The jhanas have been studied here. Worth noting that according to Culadasa the stages of 7-10 correspond to jhana states 1-4. So at least in theory we know that could exist. There also quite a few practitioners who claim to have achieved this persistently.
Awakening has been studied to some degree here.
The moments of consciousness model has been studied here and here.
The mind-system/sub-mind model is a theory of mind that was put forth by Martin Minsky, co-founder of MIT's artificial intelligence lab in his 1988 book 'The Society of Mind.' See here.
The idea of willed (mindfulness) vs automatic behavior was studied here.
To explain the pacification process and the phenomena of inner light, etc Culadasa draws upon explanations of hallucinations put forth here by Oliver Sacks. He also suggests that meditation is causing a disinhibition leading to increased 'noise' in the sensory sub-minds, an explanation that has been put forth to explain Near-Death Experiences (see here ).
Culadasa's idea of consciousness is something that most people aren't going to accept but he does have at least some support. See 'A Place for Consciousness' by Gregg Rosenberg here. Also see here.
(Actually in my view his theory makes more sense because it demystifies consciousness a lot.)
Edit - Tagging u/aspirant4 as this may answer some of his questions. If not, let me know.
Chalmers' philosophical writing on this is actually pretty interesting and accessible, IMO. You might be interested to check out a couple of his classic papers, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness and Consciousness and its Place in Nature.
The panpsychist view is described in the latter paper under the heading "Type-F Monism." For those interested in this idea, there is a brilliant book length treatment of it by Gregg Rosenberg called A Place for Consciousness.