Title: Target Aquarius
Author:Scott Beringer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1-4990-0900-2
Pages: 382
Genre: Philosophy, Conspiracy Theory
Reviewed by: Jason Lulos

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Author Scott Beringer has written a fascinating and bewildering account of one man’s deconstruction of experience. Target Aquarius is a comprehensive theory that the “reality” we experience is an illusion: set up as a kind of school. Graduation is self-awareness. Using structural anthropology, numerology, and various symbolic analyses (Christian, ancient, and modern), Beringer finds hidden in plain sight meaning all around him leading to a conclusion of this cosmic conspiracy.

Among his case studies, Beringer painstakingly decodes a Target commercial. Why a Target commercial?! Enlightening clues are to be found in strange places as well as ancient tomes. Likewise, there are mechanisms designed to keep us mindless and pacified. When we choose the easy paths (self-gratification, evil, thoughtlessness), we stay egocentric and imprisoned. Choose the harder road reading between the lines, self-knowledge, and we grow and spiritually evolve. These clues led Beringer to make life changes. After witnessing animal cruelty, Beringer became vegan. He began practicing intermittent fasting. Polluting the body is analogous to polluting the world. This book is peppered with analogies, thus showing how all things are connected in a meaningful way. Beringer sees life as a “system” of dualities: often misunderstood. We need the “dark” just as we need the “light.” Why is there evil in a world divinely created? The dualities are needed to create resistance. We would not learn and grow if everything were effortless
yielding easy rewards.

So, who is behind the conspiracy? Beringer mentions common culprits Freemasons and Hollywood/Illuminati. There are many reveals within film analyses. However, he implies that these are tools of a greater spiritual plan. They are all carrying out consciously or unconsciously the will of this plan. There are clues to help you out and there are clues to keep you in the dark. The general notion in the book is highly reminiscent of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Beringer relies heavily on numerology. The synchronicity of numbers has objective and personal relevance for him. Putting these symbolic and numeric clues together, one raises his/her frequency. Everything is frequency electromagnetic, gravity, nuclear. “Mind over matter” is a categorical imperative for Beringer. Thus, a conscious effort is required to reach this higher selfawareness.

Beringer covers a lot in this book. Some claims are logical, some are enlightening, and some are dubious but intriguing (i. e., astronomical and astrological connections, numeric significance, the section on Jupiter and the atomic makeup of Carbon). This all comes with a fundamental paradigm shift. There is some political conspiracy in the book but it bows to the overarching cosmic theme.

If read with an open mind, Target Aquarius can be rewarding or far-fetched, or both. One thing is for certain, it will make you think twice in the way in which you look at things in this world.