Featured Image: Author’s own photo, view from the Rabaul Volcanological Observatory 2024

In June this year I will be joining others on the Cosmic Consciousness Cruise to Papua New Guinea. As part of our cruise experience, there will be an Onboard Conference Component. Organised by Kathryn Hand and Mick Turner, this will not be the first of their Cosmic Consciousness conferences that I have attended and I am very much looking forward to the event. In preparing for the experience, I prepared this paper which I will have an opportunity to chat about with other interested participants during the cruise.

On our Cosmic Consciousness Cruise to Papua New Guinea (PNG) we will be travelling to three amazing destinations – Alotau, Kiriwina Island (the largest of the Trobriand Islands) and Rabaul.

I have marked on the map below our three destinations.

Public Domain map of Papua New Guinea (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=480208), edited using Perplexity AI (perplexity.ai) and Microsoft Designer

Rabaul is my birthplace. I am also an initiated member of the local Tolai community there. My family association with the area dates back around 100 years: my grandfather moved to the area in his late teens in the 1920s, and my father, who was born in Wau in the Morobe Province in the 1930s, moved to Rabaul as a child. I am very excited to be returning to PNG and, in particular to Rabaul and to share a little of my experience and understanding of where we are travelling in the hope it may help enrich our cruise experience.

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