Title:   Aquarian Introspection: Signs, Self, and the Ascension of Awareness
Author: Scott Beringer 
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
ISBN: 9798318857119
Pages: 214
Genre: Spirituality and Philosophy
Reviewer:  Jason Lulos


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Have you ever felt like a zombie, mindlessly going through life? Have you ever wondered how you might become who you were always meant to be? In Aquarian Introspection, author Scott Beringer addresses these questions. He prescribes methodological vocabulary for real introspection: one which humbly asks the reader to reconsider reality. He advises us to be profoundly mindful: as individuals and in connection with all things. This book is a fascinating deconstruction of theology, biology, quantum physics, numerology, media, and scripture: showing how the structure of reality is designed to test us. We have all the tools. It is up to us to choose wisely, and this book is a map for that journey.

Scott Beringer’s previous book, Aquarian Awareness, also thought-provoking, presented a plan for spiritual growth in an artistic, stream of consciousness style. His latest, Aquarian Introspection, addresses those same philosophical issues in a more coherent style, yielding a systematic guidebook for spiritual evolution.

“The ego was always the first artificial intelligence.” So begins a section in the chapter “The Machine is not the Enemy.” Like A.I., your ego is a data receiving and repeating apparatus. Your ego is a vehicle for navigating the world, but it is not your true Self. This vehicle is equipped to do great things but is also subject to appetites, poor choices, and distraction. Aquarian Awareness is all about moving from this passive ego-existence towards a more self-aware and self-determining life: with echoes of Christian Existentialism.

Beringer humbly asks us to consider his observations and for the reader to look for observations of his/her own. Each choice will either elevate a person to a higher or lower spiritual frequency. He dispels the notion of the devil and the angel on your shoulders, insisting that the roads to enlightenment or perdition are not “out there” trying to persuade you. Rather, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (or her traveling companions), the power to become who you always wanted to be lies within you.

We need the Ego and the Self because we live in what Beringer calls the 7-11 School of Duality. Our world is a classroom of dualities that is always open. Dualities must coexist:we need light to understand dark. If we had only goodness to choose from, we would not be tested: we would not learn and potentially (spiritually) evolve. This is not the plan of a vengeful God, but a structured reality designed to teach. Critical self-awareness is the key to discovery. Be the self-illuminating star rather than the passive, absorbing body. And like the quantum observer effect in which conscious observation brings reality into set states, the author encourages us to create the world we want to live in by ignoring mindless distractions in favor of true self-determinism.

There are clues everywhere. Why would God put clues in a Target commercial? So we learn to look for them. Why wouldn’t God just be direct and tell us what to do? Because learning through effort and consequences is a more profound learning experience. Reality is a classroom. Beringer admits that not everything in this book will apply to every reader. He simply encourages the reader to be aware. He notes that we are moving from a dualistic Pisces Age to the Aquarian Age: an age symbolized by water. The theme of water and its quantum corollary, waveform, symbolize the Divine Feminine. That is, we are all in a watery, amniotic womb of existence wherein we are connected to the mother and the voice of the external “Father.” This waveform womb is the world we know: one in which we can grow, connect, and potentially emerge into new versions of ourselves. For readers interested in spirituality, self-discovery, and the mysteries of consciousness, this thought-provoking work offers an invitation to look within, see differently, and explore the possibilities of personal and spiritual growth.