The Spiritual Chicks: Kick-Ass Content

This article originally appeared on EccelcticSpirituality.com

Reprinted with the permission of the author

A Coupla Spiritual Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'
By Carol L. Skolnick
The Spiritual Crumudgeon^TM

Tami Coyne and Karen Weissman have their heads on straight, their feet on the ground, and wicked senses of humor. Is this any way to run a spirituality web site?

"You think there's life after death?"

"I dunno, but I'm really hoping there's sex after death!"

Tami Coyne and Karen Weissman are the Spiritual ChicksSM. And they mean business. Spiritual business.

Spiritual business?

These two entrepreneurial women—one a right-brain career counselor and celebrated author, the other a left-brain engineer, both long-time students of the metaphysical—are in the business of providing "atypical" media content of a spiritual nature. And they have a new book coming out where they answer the kind of questions you've always wanted to ask about spirituality, but that would have gotten you kicked out of catechism class or the meditation center.

The Chicks aren't talking angels, Reiki, Jesus, or meditation. At least, that's not all they're talking about.

So what makes the Spiritual Chicks so spiritual?

"Spirituality is simply the way each of us explores our fundamental connection to the universe at large," say Coyne and Weissman. "It is not something that can be imposed by doctrine. Spirituality must be experienced, for only then can we know it, feel it and apply it. And what better way to experience it than through our own lives?"

In other words: "Many of us, including experienced seekers, sometimes feel disqualified from being spiritual because we are: atheist, too religious, unsure, angry, fat, too rich, poor, unruly, too logical, not intellectual enough---in short, human. The Spiritual Chicks contend that being human does not preclude us from being spiritual. Spirituality is everywhere and in everything."

The Spiritual Chicks' columns will make you laugh. And think. And question. And confirm your own beliefs--or not--as they discuss things both lofty and practical, from parenting to politics. Recent topics include:

· If time is an illusion, why is my past still pissing me off?

· Do I Need a Guru to be on the Spiritual Path?

· What's a little sin among friends?

· What's the Spiritual Side of the Party Platforms?

Think you know the answers? You do; as the Chicks might put it, that's the point. But as for their "atypical content for all media"... be prepared for something completely different.

Look for the Chicks' upcoming book, THE SPIRITUAL CHICKS^SM QUESTION EVERYTHING: Learn to Risk Release, and Soar, available Oct. 2002 from Red Wheel/Weiser.

Spiritual Chicks web content quoted with permission.

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