Pacific Island voyaging, navigation and non-instrument wayfinding research

Record summary

Contemporary research and documentation of Polynesian wayfinding examines star paths, swell patterns, winds, bird behaviour, memorised routes and embodied environmental cognition. The topic is relevant to altered-state and psi comparison because outsiders have sometimes misdescribed expert ecological knowledge as extrasensory perception. It offers a strong conventional-cognition comparator for apparently uncanny navigation. The traditions are technically sophisticated and culturally situated; claims about trance, intuition or supernatural guidance must be separated from documented navigational practice.