Religious Experience and Ritual in perspective Lelaku Javanese Islam and Modern Psychology

Between religious experience with ritual practice can not be separated. For the ritual comes from the concept. And after the experience, it enshrined the concept of spirituality. Here the concept is something that is very helpful to guide people toward reality. But when people had arrived there, dealing with reality, he must understand and experience relitas directly. Another quality of the concept is a concept that was static, while reality is always changing. The concept always be something frozen, while the reality is always flowing. So, if someone believing mystical (Sufism), relitas is a wholeness, but the words and concepts of reality breaking into pieces. Reality is not biased housed by the words or concepts. To understand reality, one must know and beyond knowledge. Therefore it is difficult to translate something from one language to another, because each language cuts reality into different pieces.

According CharlesT.Tart (1975:11-38), there are three levels of process level concept or spirituality until the attainment of religious experience, ie knowledge (science), the situations of consciousness (state of consciousness), and spiritual experiences. In Sufism, this involves Tariqat and ma'rifat shari'ah as well as nature. Sheikh Siti Jenar way (islam java) apparently has met the criteria. His students, Siti Jenar first will teach the origin of life, the second will be notified the door of life. Third, the place tomorrow when it is eternal life, and four, natural mortality currently being experienced.

Because the spiritual experience beyond the knowledge and situation awareness, Abraham Maslow (1964:98) in his thesis puts a spiritual experience as one of the peak experiences (peak experience). Because for Maslow, spiritual knowledge is not the only peak experiences. In addition to the experience of religious or spiritual experience, spiritual experience can start from books, music, or other activities that are intellectually. Here the religious experience as reality itself, in Javanese Islam was known by the name of reality, subject-Gusti manungaling briefly referred to as unity or ngelmu kasampurnan.