Personality Part 6
May 17, 2026
Personality Part 6
Are you “perfect?” ... The answer is yes, but few of us know it.
An amazing quality from our soul that shines through our personality is perfection. For the soul, perfection is wholeness, not flawlessness. Wholeness means the complete person which includes the fact that we are “under construction.”
Babies and small children are perfect not because they are flawless but because they are simply themselves in all their beauty, wonder ... and even in their messes and mistakes. Young kids bring smiles to our faces and joy to our hearts because they are “perfectly” innocent and they have no inner critic. How wonderful that you and I have our inner child who is our truest nature. But as adults we are so filled with shame and self-judgement that we do not experience our inner child or the perfection we still are. A friend of mine, George Ritchie Jr., M.D., found out how perfectly whole he is by way of a miracle.
George G. Ritchie Jr., M.D., psychiatrist and spiritual teacher, was one of the first people to write about their near-death-experience. As a young soldier, he expired from a high fever and was pronounced dead. He recalled having left his body and seeing it being wheeled into the morgue where his “mind” entered another dimension and everything familiar dropped away. George writes in his book, Return from Tomorrow, that in the new dimension he met the Christ who, as a being of white light, stood beside him. Everything George had ever said or done was in movie vignettes in a panoramic view. George hung his head in shame for all the embarrassing and wrongful things that were exposed in 3D living color.
Humiliated, George told Christ, “Well at least I was an Eagle Scout.” Christ smiled and replied in the most accepting and loving voice he had ever heard, “George, there is nothing that you have done that I do not totally accept and love.” This was the pivotal meaning of the Near-Death Experience, according to George — he was not judged and condemned by Christ. Even his most shameful errors were right in front of him and Christ in living color; he was totally exposed yet totally accepted. After coming back to life to find himself in the morgue, with a tag on his toe, George was transformed and lived to be a healer of many people.
I recall the many times I listened to George tell this amazing story. He glowed with authenticity, hope, and love. He laughed and lived to the fullest. He was blustery, bold, and stubborn, yet he was truly himself. I will always be glad that he was my mentor. He had no question about life after death—he KNEW he would one day be in another realm, because he had experienced it. He based his life on the belief that we continue beyond our physical life’s ending.
His personality was greatly affected by his Near-Death Experience. He was able to accept his faults with more self compassion. He was able to accept others with the same compassion. He was able to do this because, as his book so beautifully describes, he was face to face with his soul.
Self-inquiry: Have you accepted your perfect wholeness?
Prayer:
Dear God, I am not flawless, but you accept me just the way I am. And one of the best ways I can live in that wholeness is to remember my soul child and, with you, to live in soul again. I lift up to you this day all those who are uncertain, scared, and overwhelmed, that they may be embraced by your completely accepting presence. Amen.
