Paul Wagner - The Field Guide to Human Personalities, Vol. 1: A Common Sense Guide to Better Understanding Yourself and Others

EXPLORE YOURSELF & OTHERS!

This book is a friendly guide, a personal development tool and the start of a conversation. With a fairly broad stroke, it explores a perceived subset of the spectrum of colorful personalities, avatars and attributes that operate within the collective human psyche.

Every experience results in the accumulation of attitudes, intentions and beliefs, which live in us as magnets. Left unchecked, our internal magnets can attract undesirable experiences to our lives. These magnets also form identity masks (personalities) within us, which also attract experiences. We are at the mercy of these amorphous, embedded constructs until we recognize, heal and release them.

You are invited to explore, embrace, forgive and celebrate these aspects within yourself and others. May you move successfully past your stories and closer to emotional and spiritual freedom.

HOW READERS USE THE BOOK

The books and cards help me heal my heart and grow ! They help me have more compassion for my husband and our relating. Wonderful and helpful! - Jennifer S.

As a psychotherapist, I use the book and cards to help my clients bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. I also use these tools to help me see myself more clearly. - Chris V, Ph.D

It might sound a little heavy, but the book is helping me process my life so I can think about dying with a light and clear heart. This is truly a gift. - Ria G, PhD

THE PURPOSE OF OUR PERSONALITIES

Much like our spirits enter our bodies at birth, we step into personalities, which are nothing more than vehicles for interacting with physical realities. We use personalities to interact with the universe, make friends, get jobs and get attention. By temporarily naming and then exploring our personalities, we make them more relatable, which helps us process unattended emotions and experiences. Doing so, we increase our ability to forgive ourselves and others, our awareness expands and we grow.

Over time, we evolve out of some personalities, stepping into clearer, more advanced representations of ourselves. At the ends of our lives, we drop all personalities and we return to source. This does not mean that our souls die, it means we go back to an existence without pretense or construct.

The purpose of life is to release the features within us that are incongruent with the source of all life. This is what the masters who have appeared throughout time have taught us. Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Quan Yin, Amma, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Vivekananda, Osho, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sai Baba and all the light beings who brighten our spirits, point to a oneness with creation, a merging with eternity. They desire for us to go through the process of Self-realization , seeking nirvana, the state of the perfect non-existence of self-serving desires.

Some people pursue this clear state by praying, chanting or by living monastic lives, but the majority of us utilize relational, emotional and psychological modalities to serve our spiritual advancement. These tools bring us closer to the Self, expanding our awareness, clarity and sense of freedom.

By exploring and finding empathy for the broad spectrum of human attributes inherent in the human condition, we move closer to the source. By seeing ourselves in every living being we experience and interact with, we become free. With one intention, one action, we can awaken.

HOW TO EXPLORE YOUR PERSONALITIES

When reading a personality chapter, give thought to how you relate to it. As you see reflections of yourself and others in the readings, consider releasing the behaviors and notions you find hurtful or distasteful. As feelings emerge, fully express them vocally or by writing about them.

Life is challenging. Mistakes are part of the plan. Forgive. Let go. Reboot.