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

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