Tarot: Its History and Use

Correlation to other esoteric scientific and psychological viewpoints

Carl Jung the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical psychology postulated the now mostly accepted theory of Synchronicity. This is where two or more events occur and have obvious joining natures and so seemingly cannot be dismissed as pure coincidence and so must have a deeper meaning. This is now often seen where the Tarot is concerned. For in asking a question during the shuffling of the cards, cards will fall in a certain order. To accept that the order of cards is not random, is surely to accept some form of higher power, divine force, or other outside influence is involved.  Otherwise the cards would fall in a random order each time they were shuffled and dealt and this would negate all possibility of a reading pertinent to an individual.  So in accepting the validity of a card reading being possible, one must also accept direction by an outside entity, even if this outside force is deemed an expression of a higher self, or over-soul. If we look at the idea of a higher self, or id being involved perhaps this is either manifesting in some from of telekinetic energy being exerted over the cards during the reading rather like poltergeist activity, or is in some way influencing the readers choice of cards, how many times to shuffle and for how many seconds for example. This is not so far fetched a theory as scientific data has been collected on many ESP experiments where there have been noticeable changes caused to be made manifest by the power of the mind of an individual using just will. There are perhaps as many different viewpoints, ideas and self expressed thoughts as regards the Tarot as there are different Tarot decks. The conclusion here is that does it really matter how it works, as long as it does in fact work. For the Tarot to have lasted as long as it has appears to prove that it is a workable system for aiding the review and future possibilities as regards the lives and journeys of clients and so it as a divination tool can hold its head firmly up.