By Michael Naylor, Point Guard, and Enneagram Teacher Bill Flowers stands at the free-throw line, his six-foot-six presence is statuesque, his gleaming eyes spotlights of alertness in harmony with his shining, African-American radiance, the raucous crowd chanting like a Buddhist-Basketball-Kirtan-Celebration, the emotional atmosphere of the court electric with anticipation. His angular spirit calmly collected, in unison with the thumping

My Uniquely Ordinary Journey as a Recovering Type Four by Michael Naylor, 2023, An Introduction Amidst a time of great turmoil, I sought counseling with my future Gurdjieff guide. I was fifteen years sober (the blessing of AA) as my life as I knew it had dissolved through some Type Four Trap-of-Death-and-Most-Unlikely-Redemption porthole in the cosmic fabric,