SoulTalk with Kute Blackson 191: Jac O'Keeffe – How To Be A Spiritual Rebel
Aug 19, 2021
Jac O'Keeffe, spiritual leader and author of Born to Be Free, explores awakening, spiritual emergencies, and ethical leadership. She recounts visionary shifts, misdiagnoses of awakenings as mental illness, and the need for embodied integration. Jac speaks on forgiving yourself, resisting commercialized spirituality, cultivating safety for integration, and loving your humanness.
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Narcissism Attracts Leadership Roles
- Jac notes narcissistic personality traits attract some spiritual leadership roles, estimating roughly 15% may have NPD.
- She links attraction to authority with lack of empathy and refusal to self-reflect, worsening abuse risk.
Safety Determines Integration
- 'Spiritual emergency' can be mistaken for psychiatric illness when awakening lacks safety and grounding.
- Integration requires feeling safe in the body so insights can be applied to daily life rather than dissociate into psychosis.
Build Felt Safety To Prevent Psychosis
- Check whether you genuinely believe 'I am safe' and practice grounding to build safety in the body.
- Shift from anticipatory anxiety to present-moment trust using breath, bodywork, or therapies that increase felt safety.
