Many people are afraid of the Tarot, and other forms of divination because of the messages they might find therein, for the Tarot are windows into the mysterious and wild unconscious after all. It was Sigmund Freud who made the theory of the unconscious mind widely famous. He discovered that his medical patients physical ailments improved through talking about their lives, and he related this to releasing suppressed psychic energy from their unconscious minds. Freud became known as the father of modern psychoanalysis. Freud believed that the unconscious mind is where we repress our desires, and anything about us deemed socially unacceptable. His rebel student Carl Jung expanded the theory further, in his studies of how the unconscious mind is also a bridge to spiritual and mystical experiences, and a greater collective reality. The unconscious mind is also a concept that has been interpreted by various myths of ancient cultures and practically explored by many shamans, thinkers and h...