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The Cosmic Ocean: New Answers to Big Questions Paperback – September 8, 2015

by Paul K. Chappell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Prospecta Press (September 8, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1632260093
  • ISBN-13: 978-1632260093
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Way Forward
By Christopher Mahon on September 4, 2015
Format: Paperback
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.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPaul's own beautifully written prose offers purpose and meaning as we go ...
By Carol Burns on September 12, 2015
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Soldier's Transformative Guidebook for Our Times
By Kate Towle on March 24, 2016
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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.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsTurning Trauma into the Abolition of War
By David Swanson on January 28, 2016
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“I was sleeping peacefully late one night when I felt someone grab my leg and drag me from my bed onto the floor. My leg was pulled so hard I heard my pajama pants rip down the middle. Looking up and seeing my father, I began to panic as he pulled my hair and told me he was going to kill me.”

Paul Chappell is recounting an incident from when he was four years old. The terror of such unpredictable attacks in the years that followed traumatized him. Chappell’s father had been traumatized by war, and Chappell would also end up joining the military. But over the years, Paul managed to turn his childhood trauma, not into a continued cycle of violence but rather into a means of gaining insight into how the institution of mass violence might be ended.

Chappell’s latest book, The Cosmic Ocean: New Answers to Big Questions, is the fifth in a projected seven-part series. Like a sculptor pounding out variations on a theme, Chappell each year produces a newer, thicker, wiser, and more illuminating take on the questions that tear at his heart: How can we be so kind and cause such suffering? How can we fail to care about others just like ourselves? What sort of change is possible and how can it be brought about?

I’m usually wary of anything that could be repetitive or pedantic, as life is just too short and I just too rebellious. But Chappell is repetitive because he is a teacher, and he is becoming a better teacher every year. He wants us to understand important truths in a variety of contexts, to remember them, and to act on them. As with his previous books, I once again recommend the latest one as the best, but encourage reading them all. Skip a presidential debate or two if you have to.

I’m always wary of efforts to solve war by finding inner peace.Read more ›
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