Good evening Harry,
Given that social identity beliefs are some conditions of 'my' existence, then does eliminating one of those beliefs (eg: see my 'investigating the belief of "a good life"' thread) gain me SE?
Yes. Eliminating the social need for status would most certainly reveal to you - experientially and without doubt - the ephemeral, stressful and conditional nature of the self. However, SE is also about fruition. (A debate about the validity of fruition would be very interesting.) So, technically, maybe it won't "gain me SE". But everything SE teaches, eliminating the social need for status will also teach you.
Would you be able to point out of the conditions of 'my' existence in regards to my latest post (SAS vs CS) in Harry's Practice Thread?
Harry Potter:
It seemed to me that there is a social identity layer on top of lust and romantic desire...I seem to conclude that I need to first mitigate this layer before investigating romantic desire itself.
You have already discovered it yourself! If you successfully remove or mitigate your social conditioning regarding lust and romantic desire, you will find them to be much much reduced. The way to do this is through attention + behavioral cognitive therapy + logic and reason. Notice the lust and romantic desire, ask yourself if your views on that matter are logical, ask yourself if the mood those views put you in is worthwhile, ask yourself if you are able to change this mood, ask yourself is it worthwhile to change this mood. Change the mood. Ask yourself if you are grateful for being able to change your mood and for having done so. Then move on to sensuousness. You will have to rinse and repeat a thousand times or more. But soon enough, the old refrains, what Dr. Ingram calls your internal tape loop, will be erased and new refrains will be recorded. These refrains will be automatic and they will be positive. They will remind you to stay out of stupid points of view and to stay within intelligent points of view or better yet, no points of view at all and felicity instead.