Spiritual Communication in the Tiban Tradition in Trenggalek Regency

The purpose of this study is to analyze the existence of spiritual communication in the Tiban art tradition in the Jajar Village community, Trenggalek Regency. The background to this study began with an interest in spiritual forms that occur in a tradition that develops in society. To see the spiritual communication that occurs, the method used in this study is qualitative with a phenomenological approach, to see every unusual phenomenon that occurs in Tiban. The theory used is the Ritual Communication Theory which is then divided into 5 important points in it. The results of this study are that Tiban is one way that is considered effective to ask for rain, the beliefs held by the community began with the Tiban ritual that has been carried out from year to year to become an art, besides that in Tiban contains meaning with the essence as a medium of communication by humans with God to convey a message and produce a significant impact. The data in the study were obtained from directly seeing the ritual being carried out as well as interviews to literature studies. Keywords: Spiritual Communication, Tradition, Tiban