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,

“No matter what type we are, we can observe the following about Inner Work: ‘Work on ourselves proceeds layer by layer, from the most external forms of personality to the inner core of our Being.’” (Understanding the Enneagram, 359) The Reality of Growth and Change on the Recovery Path—Navigating the Nine Strata (Modeled from The