It's no wonder SDP is confused. Right there you are pandering to the idea he is presenting that equates purification (cessation of conditioning) with SR/awakening.
The mind-chatter, (if it's (s)elf referential, doesn't so much reinforce imagined separation as it IS evidence of (s)elf identification/separation). You can't posit mind-chatter per se, with causing the delusion of separation.
& While "some" conditioning does indeed dissolve in SR, not all of it does.
You are equating a relatively quiet mind, free from intellect and mind-chatter, absence of conditioning, directly with SR, and that is a gross mischaracterization of what the term "SR" is actually indicating/pointing to.
Yes, ultimately the "realization of" Self is an absence, but it's an absence of the vantage point/limited/bound position of seeing that is limited/based within the imagined SVP, due to a shift in locus of seeing that has shifted to 'beyond/prior to' all appearance and NOT merely an absence of a "particular kind" of minding/a relatively quiet mind.
The impact of SR upon experience, upon the apparent me character is indeed, generally speaking a quieting of mind, in particular all of those minding patterns that had (s)elf identification at their helm, but the mistake of separation goes far deeper...it quite literally IS the false vantage point itself that launches the erroneous ideas.
'Cept, it's not the mere quieting of mind-chatter that reveals that, it's a profound shift in position of seeing that does.
In true SR, Oneness is more than a mere "Insight." It's a realization/unveiling of the Truth, again, that hinges upon a profound shift in where seeing happens from. For you, it's clear it really is just an experiential 'insight,' which means it's a concept you hold in mind vs. an actual shift in where you see from.
And even though you begin that paragraph using the term "correlated with," by the end of it, you are very clearly positing those activities and in particular "a relatively quiet mind," with a path to SR. You've either seen through all paths, all causes within the dream, that there is but one, singular movement, or you haven't, and I'd say it's pretty clear you haven't Zd.
When all of this is mere conceptual knowledge, there will be those kinds of constant gaffes and lapses in ontology.
And, there we have it.
You are both asserting that there 'Is' a path to SR and you are saying the delusion of separation is "caused by" accumulated, ongoing "habits." That is plain and simply false.
The illusion of separation is not "created by" ongoing habits, even though it is so that ongoing patterns of delusional ideation are the hallmark of being fast asleep.
The 'seer and seen' is a delusional viewpoint inherent to the SVP viewpoint. When the locus of seeing shifts to beyond, the 'seer' dissolves and there is simply "seeing" and "seen." If you take yourself to be "a seer" you are plain and simply identifying with the experiential "me" that is an appearance only.
There is an "apparent" self. The "me character" is not imagined, it does appear. What's imagined is that that appearance is an existent entity...an existent, seer/doer/experiencer/perceiver.
There you go again, erroneously rendering SR down to an absence of thought. Thought 'aint the enemy. It's only particular, false, erroneous ideas (the ones that hinge upon the erroneous, imagined position of seeing through an SVP's eyes) that need to go.
You are conflating asleep within the dream, immersed within the consensus trance with the delusion of separation/fast asleep to the dream being a dream....waking up to the consensus trance (still not-SR) with SR/awakening.
They are two very different things. Everything you write about is about still being fast alseep/not SR, but awake to the consensus trance.
Being awake to the consensus trance is about dissolving conditioning, but SR is about a shift in locus of seeing.
Being relatively more consciously aware of what is going on is not the same as being awake to the dream. Again, no wonder SDP is confused. he upholds you in particular as an expert on the subject of Nondual awakening. It's the blind leading the blind.
You just wrote a whole text-wall describing how SR is the result of purification of mind.