The Passion of the Types

Foreword BY RUSS HUDSON The popular Enneagram has become familiar to millions of people, and it is no longer a surprise to learn that a new friend or acquaintance knows his or her Enneagram type. Many are reading online threads and watching podcasts to learn their “number.” But even as the popularity of the Enneagram […]

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

Type Two— The Intuitive Healer “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” —BUDDHA The Type Two, known as the nurturer, mentor, and intuitive healer, is endowed with a generous and loving heart, sensitive to the nuances of other people’s suffering, and naturally inclined to heal, help, or sometimes carry the sufferer until