In understanding the possibility of seeing all reality within a 'person paradigm' rather than purely a 'matter and energy' paradigm, is necessary to clarify just what personhood means, and understand personhood as something broader than merely human personhood.

This can be difficult, where there is no conception of 'person' other than the human person, and where there is an dominant individualistic framework, and an inadequate understanding of functioning corporate realities (e.g such as those understood by Australian Aboriginal cultures).

An incorrect understanding of personhood will result in a confusing a paradigm that defines reality as sourced and existing in personhood as either anthropomorphist and/or animistic.

Anthropomorphism –  pertains to ‘human’ not person.  For example when looking at Wisdom, if one only understands personhood (and indeed the feminine) in the context of the human person, a charge of anthropomorhism would be quite reasonable.  Human metaphors can be useful, but are limitted if we attribute the chatracteristics in question only to humans. From a Christian perspective neither personhood or the feminine is archtypically human.  Neither personhood or femininity are 'concepts' unique to or souced in humanity, both are sourced in God.

Animism, is often a perjorative term, and carries sufficient emotional stigma within modern Western consciousness for it to be dismissed without a hearing.  Animism is differentiated from broader personhood, however, by its inference of an attribution of an individuated thinking, feeling, desiring ‘soul’ to specific objects and phenomena. Animism is a narrow version of personhood.

1    Personhood  is a much broader concept than humanity
(most Christians would grant that personhood at least encompasses humans, angels, Father, Son and Holy Spirit etc)

2    Personhood is a corporate concept
(i.e. just as humanity is not confined to or defined by individual humans, neither is personhood confined to individual persons).

This Full personhood has to do with a free will and awareness, (an otherness) incorporating an Inside hearing, and a speaking out from that inside.

Personhood is enriched where the speaking and hearing of ideas are clearly sourced and rooted in person. Communicating ideas as personal communion not data flow. Ideas perceived to their personal source.

To hear is to allow space for an idea 'inside' where it can speak itself freely.

Human personhood also has the unique capacity for symbolic reference, or language, which should not be accepted as a given when considering broader personhood.  Humans are capable of re-patterning ideas perceived within according to their will, and the nature of the ideas patterning.

The new idea conceived can then be spoken out as a corporate identity or group of ideas united in the central idea of the person conceiving. In other words humans have the a capacity for speaking Other than the word of who they are.

The Bible speaks of spirit, soul, and body in describing human personhood.

Martin Buber  makes useful comments on how creation other than humanity can be understood as participating in the fundamental 'I-you' relationship.  (see excerpt here)