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Jac O'Keeffe (born March 29, 1967) is an Irish spiritual teacher, speaker, and author who facilitates spiritual gatherings in question-and-answer format, offering clear pointers to spiritual seekers of Truth and liberation. Provide a description of the subject's major contributions in the immediately relevant field(s) of notable expertise.

Biography
Jac O’Keeffe experienced a spontaneous awakening in 1997. This gave her access to powerful intuitive and healing capacities and influenced her to change in career from pioneering community arts policy at the national level in Ireland to open a healing practice. During her practice, she worked closely with Dr. Michael Corry and Dr. Aine Tubridy in their practices of psychiatry and psychotherapy, respectively. Jac brought an energetic and spiritual perspective to their patient understanding. The book "Going Mad?: Understanding Mental Illness" (Corry and Tubridy, Gill & MacMillan, 2001) was written about this work and further explores the combined approach. Jac and her team began to observe and understand that symptoms commonly labeled as mental health issues were actually indicators of a spiritual awakening (e.g. depression was recognized as a spiritual crisis rather than a bio-chemical disorder). To address depression from a spiritual perspective Jac developed and delivered holistic, residential programs that used these discoveries to effectively treat patients.

In 2003, she left Ireland to deepen her spiritual practice. After a two-year period of no thoughts, the self-referencing mechanism that creates the sense of a personal ‘I’ had dissolved. Jac began to work as a spiritual teacher in 2008. Jac now guides others in her teachings and publications to share what she has learned and assists others to transcend both dual and non-dual perspectives. Jac also prepares spiritual teachers for liberation.

Teaching
Jac teaches and facilitates spiritual gatherings (satsangs) in question-and-answer format, offering clear pointers to spiritual seekers of Truth and liberation.