Studi Kritis atas Kepercayaan Orang Manggarai – Flores tentang Komunikasi antara Arwah dengan Orang-orang Hidup

Abstract

<p>This article aims to investigate the communication between the ghosts of the dead and the living. It is quite common<br />that the living talk to the ghosts of the dead through different rituals in the tradional religions. On the contrary, the study<br />about communication between the ghost of the dead with the living is not very common. Therefore, a question in this<br />research is: “Is there any experience that the ghost of the dead talks to the living?” The assumption is that: there is<br />communication between the ghost of the dead and the living. Using descriptive-qualitative method of research, the result of<br />this study shows that there is communication between the ghosts of the dead and the living. The communication takes place<br />through the medium of the paranormal in which the paranormal man or woman invites the ghost of the dead to talk to his or<br />her family through paranormal man or woman or simply to get the message from the ghost. The communication also takes<br />place through dreams, and later on the message or messages that iare delivered in the dream become real or really<br />happened. Then, the communication of the ghost of the dead and the living is analyzed using postmodernism, fenomenology,<br />and ethnometodology perspectives. Each perspective argues that the communication between the dead and the living is<br />understandable and academically acceptable.</p><p><br />Keywords: communication, dead, living, dream, paranormal, post modernism, fenomenolgy, and ethnomethodology.</p>