Balinese have a strange level of communication media, this no more communicates within man to man in this universe, this is a way to communicate with "some things" from other world.

Balinese believe that they can communicate with their ancestor, spirits and even gods. And how do they do it? And what is it for? They do it simply by making a small offering, named pejati and bring it to the Balian (supernatural figure) and tell the Balian what kind of "the service" they want, for example they want to talk to their ancestor spirits, then the Balian will concentrate for a moment to invite the ancestor spirit and the Balian enter into trance, now she represent the ancestor spirit, so they can have a conversation with their ancestor.

Balinese usually go to the Balian when they will hold ngaben ceremony. They want to know whether their ancestor agree with the ritual and whether they have some requests. Last month I joined with one Balinese family that would run ngaben ceremony to visit Balian, three days before the grandfather dead and in three day they would do ngaben.

We went to Balian's house in Sanur to ask the last request and does the spirit agree with the family's plan to use wadah (pagoda) or not. We arrived at the house around ten in the morning. And there were already three families group waiting for.

After waiting for mere an hour, the turn was coming to us. All the family's member sat around the Balian, then within short ritual the Balian enter to trance, I heard she called some names and my friend told me that those name belongs to the family's member. This is just like a sign that the spirit enters into Balian body is the right one.

Then conversation appeared among the members with the Balian, in this case is belief as the spirit of dead's grandfather. The spirit said there's nothing to cry for him because it was his time to die and he already got a good place.

His son asked about his last request and the spirit said he wanted to bring his favorite cloth and new sarong with his cremation and there's nothing to worry about the pagoda and the procession, he really appreciated and could accepted it.

For about half hour the family had conversation with the spirit before it asked to go and gave some advice for all of the family. During the conversation I saw some of the member cry and sometimes they laugh or just smile when the spirit told something secret about someone.

At the end all the family can accept the spirit request and there were some happy faces because they knew that the spirit had got a good place in his next life.