Right....back again...This may take some time but I think a bit of background here is important....

I've been unwilling to make any outright claims to Paths above stream entry because I'm still learning the terminology. I'm also skeptical of making claims to grades/paths since my background in magickal tradition is based on one being initiated into some sort of temple, group or whatever as a physical validation of attaining whichever grade. Since 2002 I've been a sole practitioner having become tired of dealing with group politics, ego trips and the bullshit inherent in pretty much every Western magickal tradition I've encountered or worked with. I mainly worked with "Chaos Magick" from 2003 but with a strong foundation in the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley and kabbalistic maps although I abandoned any ideas about grades while focussing on techniques, results and experience.
Since the time I got involved with magick I had balanced it up with studies (not academic, purely personal) in philosophy, psychology and other stuff like general semantics, hypnosis, NLP etc etc to maintain the ability to rationally examine and deconstruct what goes on internally during magickal workings. Like vipassana, it's easy to get lost in content or mistake something like the A&P for ultimate enlightenment so the ability to maintain a healthy skepticism prevents one from falling prey to the often mindblowing experiences which come with exploring reality! These are some of my reasons for not wanting to claim any grade before I had enough experience to allow me to do so.....which brings me to last night:
If indeed that was Nirodha Samapatti then I have little choice but to believe that I have attained 3rd path in February of this year. Admittedly I had thought to myself that what I was reading about the work of the anagami and the changes in perception it entailed fitted in the most natural way with how "I" experience reality. I just didn't want to make an arse of myself and make some bold claim without basis for the reasons mentioned above. What made me laugh was about a month ago when I was watching a Kenneth Folk video on youtube and heard him mention something about "the circuit being completed" in one of the formless jhanas because those were the exact same words I said to my girlfriend when the actual Path Fruition happened!
I could give you a massive story here about the year leading up to this point and all the rituals, workings etc but it'd bore you senseless. To summarise, I started practicing magick and meditating again after a three year break (I fried myself basically!) and on a purely intuitive hunch started paying attention to the sensations that made up thoughts, breaking them down and examining the ideas in my head. This led to a brief but intense (what I now know to have been) A&P event and very quickly into Dark Night which I recognised having spent the last few years in it and getting to know it. This time around though I was noting but didn't know it.
What followed were the worst but most educational eight months of my entire life and where I learned how important those truths I now know as the Three Characteristics actually are. During that time I lost several jobs, was on the verge of losing my house, my relationship broke down, I was diagnosed with clinical depression and a whole host of other painful losses occured. It was only by seeing that there literally is no-self, nothing is permanent and that there truly is no satisfaction to be found in the "other" that I managed to get through those times. Although I had no formal experience with Buddhism outside of reading some very basic stuff these things presented themselves as being the only certainties in this life and showed me, in the darkest days, that everything just arises and passes, does it's thing and goes away again. As I wrote that paragraph my eyes literally welled-up, I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am for the Dharma (Overground and otherwise) as it is the most perfect expression of truth.
My practice during that time wasn't formal, I was still using chaos magick frameworks which were basically a mix and match but my notes from that time show walking meditation, choiceless awareness-style excerices, meditating on koans and Rumi's poetry and a lot of failed sigil work to get myself a job!

In February I entered into what I now know was High Equanimity and got Path towards the end of the month (can't recall the exact date). I was sitting in my chair working away on some video when there was just a moment, devoid of anything and then an increase in awareness. I turned to my girlfriend (we had split up but, for financial reasons, remained in the same house) and just said "The circuit is complete", she had no idea what had happened and asked me what I meant. I said that something had changed, that I could now see clearly and that there was no reason to worry about how things would turn out since change was the only thing anyone can guarantee. That was it.
Over the following three or four months, I was still unemployed, still getting letters from solicitors with court dates for repossession and still living on £60 a week or less for a family of three but my entire experience of life was much more about my relationship to these aspects of my life and noticing that I was now suffering less than at any point in my previous work.
That's been pretty much it. When I came across Baptists Head, which I came across looking for information on the grades above the Abyss in Golden Dawn terminology since I knew that something was different to any grade I'd experienced before, I read Alan's piece on what changed for him since attaining enlightenment and found his advice to those at the previous stage to be oddly relevant to what I'd been wondering myself. This then led me to DhO and the rest is a messy, verbose and boring word-vomit-salad which you may already have seen before on here.
I know that this may have been a totally unneccesary spiel to post but I'm hoping that it demonstrates that I'm not just making random claims from out of nowhere. I have been working towards enlightenment for a fairly long time but find Buddha's teachings to be the most perfect expression of truth. I'm learning and always will be. Any questions just give me a shout!
Thanks for reading. Again.