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The Cosmic Ocean shares the treasures that Paul K. Chappell, a West Point graduate and Iraq War veteran, who grew up in a violent household, has extracted from trauma. To explain how these treasures—which take the form of timeless truths—can help us solve our personal, national, and global problems, this book uses personal stories and extensive research to journey through time, around the world, and into every facet of the human condition.
To survive and progress as a global human family, Chappell explains that we need a paradigm shift that can transform our understanding of peace, justice, love, happiness, and what it means to be human. To help create this paradigm shift, The Cosmic Ocean explores diverse subjects such as empathy, rage, nonviolent struggle, war, beauty, religion, philosophy, science, Gandhi, the Iliad, slavery, human sacrifice, video games, sports, and our shared humanity.
- Sales Rank: #1528466 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.50" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 448 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Paul's own beautifully written prose offers purpose and meaning as we go ...
By Carol Burns
I have been a peace advocate since the sixties, but since hearing Paul K. Chappell speak this past January and reading his Road to Peace
book series, his thoughts have opened my mind and touched my heart as nothing has before. The COSMIC OCEAN, the newest book in
the series speaks to the human condition and our shared humanity. Paul has transformed his own personal trauma into his teacher and
so can we.
Our world, our universe, the Cosmic Ocean needs no more acts of vengeful pain. The COSMIC OCEAN offers well-researched truths,
quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Frederick Douglas, Jesus, and the Buddha. Paul's own beautifully written prose offers
purpose and meaning as we go about our daily lives. The choice is ours. . .
We need to hear his voice. . . The COSMIC OCEAN truly offers wisdom to achieve a more peaceful world for our children and grandchildren.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Soldier's Transformative Guidebook for Our Times
By Kate Towle
Throughout history, acts of war and violence have torn at our peace of mind. Our country seems more divided than ever—over issues never resolved from our own Civil War, as we take national inventory on the historical impact of chattel slavery. Through the heart of the struggle has emerged an unlikely “peacemaker” and visionary, Paul Chappell, who comes at the peace dialogue with an analysis both grounding and ground-breaking of the factors that keep humans from living peacefully, even as “the most powerful motivator that convinces people to stay and fight is not a natural propensity for violence or killing, but their capacity for love and compassion.”
Everywhere we turn, we hear about income inequality, human and animal rights violations, global warming and wars. Perhaps the greatest threat to our survival is a growing sense that we can’t find a sense of meaning or purpose together—a sense of shared humanity. Even “peaceful” protests have turned de-humanizing, with people shouting obscenities face-to-face. Our youth are angry at us for imparting such a troubled world to them—as they navigate the social issues of our times with few of us standing with them as co-interpreters. People who want justice have lost patience and are no longer willing to negotiate.
To give us context, Chappell is painstakingly honest about the brutality he experienced at the hands of his father, a war veteran with PTSD, trauma that led to his “lifelong obsession with war and suffering.” Chappell admits that like so many of our current students, he struggled to pay attention in school. He daydreamed and experimented with violence and fighting—including fighting sanctioned by the U.S. military. Like most young men, he was drawn to video games to work out his aggressions—he provides an objective assessment of what they teach.
Unlike other “peace” writers who focus on communication and strategy, Chappell provides a deep exploration of the trauma embedded in U.S. and world history, including slavery and brutality. Because of his lived experience, Chappell unpacks trauma more thoroughly than any author I’ve read. His rare revelations, an interpretative guide through the roots of his own trauma, give us the insight needed to face our own trauma—and that of others. “Inflicting violence on others is a way to bridge the gap of isolation by allowing others to feel our pain,” writes Chappell. For people to express their trauma more constructively, he suggests we better understand its roots and build compassion.
Chappell sets the example for waging peace through a compassionate approach. Despite all the reasons for him to act with rancor and acrimony, he instead urges understanding for those who went before us and reminds us of the epic struggles of our ancestors to get to where we are today. He also urges compassion for those with whom we disagree.
Chappell writes insightfully about the two teachers who “planted those seeds of encouragement” in him by encouraging him to write. He also expresses his deep gratitude for the publishing executive who saw transformative thinking in his earliest writing and took time to support him. By taking those risks, these courageous thinkers have allowed us access to an intellectual giant and courageous soldier of peace.
In so doing, they’ve given us a one-of-a-kind window into Chappell’s brilliant musings on life’s deepest mysteries. Chappell’s take-away is that to create a literacy of peace and shared humanity, we must decode our legacies of race, trauma, brutality and war—and their intersection with science, spirituality and philosophy. Chappell asserts boldly that only a literacy of shared humanity—a sense of purpose and meaning—can save us from ourselves and from extinction. He is serving that literacy up for us in what I consider to be a guidebook for our times.
I am not the same after reading this book. Chappell’s book has given me uncommon perspective and framework for meaning like no other. Despite the growing challenges to “protect our fragile future,” Chappell is dogged in his belief that we can transform our world and “overcome a force as powerful as the religion of war,” by “strengthening the muscles of our shared humanity and by waging peace.” We do need the warrior skills of intelligence, discipline, valor and integrity, says Chappell, but we need them to hold the tensions of waging peace.
Chappell masterfully touches on every human question—and leaves us one to probe: how many other young people, experiencing trauma and attending school lost in daydreams of violence, are courageous, intellectual giants just waiting for an invitation to our shared humanity?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The Way Forward
By Christopher Mahon
Paul K. Chappell continues to shine penetrating light on the issues of war and peace in the 21st century and on the very notion of what it means to be human. His language is marked by compassion, intelligence, and clarity. The subject demands clarity. The message is too important to be misunderstood.
Chappell is bringing the message that our violent and destructive myths must fall away in order to reveal our true natures. What are some of these myths? Well, for one, the nature of war (and the reasons for it) have become a kind of myth, if not a religion, for those of us who support it. Soldiers, unfortunately, are often treated as Christ figures in order to sanctify this myth of war. But once we begin to understand the deceitful nature of the war system, we realize that it is time to replace this religion of war with a religion of peace.
It is a vast undertaking.
Part I of the book speaks to "Our Primordial Past" and explores the ingenious -- though often flawed -- ways in which humanity has dealt with the trauma and violence of living. Chappell describes the predatory nature of life but reminds us that we are predators that seek purpose and meaning. He explores the Greek myths, especially the myth of Poseidon, who for the Greeks personified the destructive power of nature, and suggests we may be the new Poseidons, holding in our hands an equal power of destruction. He remembers that throughout our long history, human beings have often been exploited as tools, but insists we now need to treat all human beings as human beings in order to live the lives our innate dignity deserves. Chappell also analyzes the Iliad to present completely modern understandings of war.
In Part II of the book, he explores "Our Fragile Future" and maps out ways to get to a better place. He speaks of the nine spiritual organs that need to be fed and outlines four practical steps human beings can take to solve our most pressing problems. As he says, we need to expand our perceptions of beauty, feed our spiritual organs, increase the clarity of our communications, and transform the nature of our suffering -- to find the light in the darkness. In fact, he indicates that the brightest lights can be found only by confronting the darkness.
Have you ever thought that "violence is the language of trauma"? Have you ever considered that 20th-century psychologist Abraham Maslow, in his landmark 1943 paper, might have been mistaken to list human needs in a hierarchy? As Chappell points out, needs are not hierarchical; they are interactive, dynamic, and rooted in social connection. Practically every page of Chappell's book is replete with such insights.
And the language is as clear as Whitman's or Rumi's. Chappell is a very different writer from Whitman or Rumi because, in many ways, his books are explanations and arguments, not poems (yet he often writes metaphorically), and he keeps much of history in mind as he writes. But I think Whitman and Rumi would recognize him as a brother.
There are plenty of reasons for despair in the modern world. One need only read The New York Times every day to learn about the destructive political and economic forces at work in the world. But reading Paul Chappell reminds us that that is not the whole picture and, perhaps, not even the biggest part of the picture. There are many thousands if not millions of voices these days who are testifying to the larger picture, and these voices are much more profound than most anything you would read in a daily newspaper.
The biggest part of the picture revolves around the human need and yearning to be connected to other human beings -- and the natural world -- in meaningful, compassionate, positive, and peaceful ways. This need was not created from the same kind of material from which a weapon can be created. A weapon can be created and dismantled. You cannot dismantle the human spirit. It arises from a much deeper and more powerful source -- a cosmic source, in fact. Reading Paul Chappell makes you realize that it is from this infinite cosmic source -- this cosmic ocean -- that humanity can draw its strength.
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