Karomahan is one of kind of psi phenomenon. It has been held in Pondok Pesantren Rohmatul Ummah Assalafy Jekulo Kudus and became one of the ilmu hikmah that is studied. Usually, this performance practiced on 1st night of syuro. This performance involved all of student (murid) when be held, as short description this performance is contest of spirit (khodam). This phenomenon was believed as performance of spirit (khodam), for example, practitioner behave like animal, usually like lion or tiger and he is able to be what he want. Practitioner also was believed had psi power as prerequirement to do karomahan performance.
This study is field research and tries to answer what is karomahan, and what kind of feeling and experience in this performance. The writer will describe what is karomahan according to data of observation and interview. Based on this data, the researcher will analyze and indentify scientifically what actually happen in this performance, and what is the correlation with altered state of consciousness, is that true or fake performance. Furthermore, researcher want to explaine what is benefit of karomahan scientifically. The last writer draws several conclusions related to the focus of study.
Based on data, karomahan can be described as khodam performance, but in modern term karomahan is performance of consciousness change (change of normal consciousness into altered state of consciousness) where practitioner can access the consciousness (character) what be intended. This research answer khodam phenomenon scientifically and explain it clearly. This performance give the experience to the practitioner. This is called as altered state of consciousness experience. This experience appropriate to general characteristic of altered state experience. Karomahan experience can be clasified into nine feeling or experience, there are strong believe in the beginning, heavy and dizzy in the first induction, change body image, forgot time, sense of ineffable, change in meaning or significance, change emotional expression and the last is tired after performance. The main function of karomahan is change of consciousness from normal state to altered state of consciousness. This function affect to meaning of perception. So, people can be meaningful of life.