"Now the 'my map' part - stealing from Einstein, a paradox cannot be resolved with the level of thinking that creates the paradox. Oho - we have to go meta."

Not necessarily 'meta'. You could chunk down further to find a different kind/level of logic. Example; In eastern medicine they have known for thousands of years that a tiny bit of the disease may cure the disease. We adopted this in western medicine centuries later. The face logic of the 'cure' is absurd or a paradox where the 'thing' eliminates the 'thing'. The 'thing' is it's own antimatter.

Another example. Victor Frankyl used 'Paradoxical intention' to cure phobias and panic attacks. When a person was reacting to stimulus and beginning to panic they would have symptoms that he would ask the client to recreate for him in his office. He would order them to willfully do what was ordinarily an unconscious response. The conscious response would eliminate the unconscious response by attaching new anchors to the event. Humor or laughter would often result when the client tried to panic.

This is a paradox...you cannot do willfully what you do unconsciously. If you attend with conscious precision to what should be a programmed event you interrupt the event. Doing the error to eliminate the error. Sports people have known about this for years. Yogi Berra, the great NY Yankee catcher would often get the opposing batter to 'think about' his swing or effort thereby interrupting the batter's program. It is a paradox at work. So you can chunk up or down and the logic for the absurdity may be at a neurological level or......... The harder you try the less likely you succeed .....when you relax and do with belief in the end product..you succeed. It is not easy to understand but it just is.....like most paradoxes. The 'Hair of The Dog' lives on!!

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