Praise
for Findings from the Hunting Party’s Scout
“Delightful,
breezy, enchanting to read! Karyn, in this, her first book, details one
woman’s midlife search to find spirit and meaning in life. A successful
professional with a devoted husband, two great kids, and a lovely home,
nevertheless, she knows that life can offer her more. Her corporate job is not
satisfying yet affords her a lifestyle she is not quite ready to give up. “Karyn’s
journey from ‘soccer mom’ and financial consultant to author and worship
service leader, evolves because she knows she is a messenger of a deeper truth
or reality. Her story will reach many men and women who also feel this ache of
separation and hunger for spirituality.
Like
Elizabeth Gilbert in the very successful Eat, Pray, Love, Karyn brings
us on a wonderful rich journey of shamans, meditation teachers, writing and
career coaches, psychotherapists, mystery school teachers and to places as
diverse as pyramids in
—Allie
Roth, Career and Life Coach,
Director,
Center for Creativity and Work
“As
I read Karyn’s book, I was immediately drawn
into her faith-filled journey. By the time I had finished reading, I realized
that her story was a catalyst for the revitalization of my own journey.”
—The Reverend Hope Johnson, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of
Central Nassau, Garden City, NY) “Author Karyn O’Beirne captures the real
essence of a woman’s transformational journey through a collection of
remarkable stories of courage, love, gratitude and acceptance. Findings
from the Hunting Party’s Scout will spur you inward for fresh discovery.
A journey guaranteed to awaken the Soul, unleash your creative power and
enlighten your aliveness.”
—Marsh
Engle, Creative Life Consultant, Author & Founder of
Amazing
Woman’s Day
“With
humor, commitment to naked truth, and richly detailed stories both ordinary
and extraordinary, Karyn O’Beirne chronicles her personal evolution in
consciousness as again and again she slips between the veil that seems to
separate the human self from the Divine Self, each time bringing back more of
the Divine to infuse the human experience. We are the Hunting Party, and Karyn
is a wise and delightful Scout.”
—Gloria
Jean, co-author of The Marriage of
Sex & Spirit,
Relationships
at the Heart of Conscious Evolution
“Karyn
O’Beirne’s Finding from the Hunting
Party’s Scout takes the reader on a journey where we witness her
innermost searching and questions. We also observe the many unique ways she
receives an answer from her intuition, higher Self, the unknown, or God. The
book’s journey is comparable to traveling with a close friend with access to
their diary and their innermost thoughts. “Karyn opens her Self literally to
examination bringing herself and the reader into awareness of the depth of her
emotions and spiritual yearnings.
Karyn’s
words help the reader to understand the transition and incorporation of a
spiritual life into the everyday mundane. Her words serve as a guiding light
to remind the reader to live deliberately, appreciate your loved ones for whom
they are, and your circumstances as they are. Her words create a desire in the
reader to find their own Truth, that we are the creators of our own lives, and
to be receptive and open to the Divine in each of us.
“This
journey leads us to the discovery that the search never ends ‘just keep
hunting’, whether we are visiting foreign lands or right in our own back
yard. Karyn’s findings are uniquely her own, yet
universally a part of each of us. Go along for the journey, it’s worth the
trip, and you never know, you may find a little of your-Self along the way.”
—Amy
Okrepkie, Owner, Healing
“Karyn
invites us on a spiritual journey and vision quest—a captivating personal
challenge that lifts us off the story-teller’s page into a modern hero’s
inner life of global adventure and self discovery. Departing on a passage of
fate, she leaves her worried-working, soccer-mom-life to become a seeker of
integrity, asking, ‘What is life really for?’ “With the support of
family, faith and friends, she takes up the spiritual artist’s task.
She
paints colorful portraits of transformational workshops, painful self study,
remarkable meditations, lucid dreaming, and sacred journeys to holy sites most
people only yearn for. Globe-trotting Karyn discovers in the journey that her
home life holds the answers to her desperate questions. She reveals her
intimate struggle with the mother who left her — and recovers a cherished
respect for family lost and family found. She ultimately learns to consciously
choose trust over self hatred and despair.
Karyn
battles our collective human compulsions and distractions — our old dream
habits of playing small, while blaming and complaining away our responsibility
to stretch ourselves and grow. She resists falling backward into self limiting
darkness. Karyn captures lightning in a bottle — arriving at spiritual
maturity as a Dream Warrior. Her weapons of choice are words to spread the
light of human concern — showering kindness and non-judgment on life’s
ordinary lessons. Her epic voyage ends in her initiation as a writer and
minister.”
—Ken
Nelson, Ph.D., trainer of transformational
workshop
leaders worldwide