Towards the end of October 2025 I reconnected with Aaron Scott, a former Wall Street executive of nearly two decades who experienced a profound awakening about two years ago. Aaron discusses his new Amazon #1 bestselling book, Before We Forget: The Guide to Personal and Collective Awakening, which blends practical tools from his finance background with metaphysical insights to create a coherent path for reclaiming sovereignty.

Key topics include:

• Defining Awakening: Moving beyond esoteric buzzwords to practical awareness—peeling back societal indoctrination (e.g., over-identification with jobs, money, or performative life) to reconnect with one's true self/soul and divine intelligence.

• Systemic Detachment: How economy, education, religion, and medicine disconnect us from natural rhythms, coherence, and internal alignment, leading to trauma and fragmentation.

• AI as the "apex of disembodiment," rooted in scientific materialism, reducing humans to metrics and utility. It mirrors greed-driven systems (venture capital, military-industrial complex) and risks replacing human connections (therapy, tutoring) for efficiency/profit. Benevolent potential exists for augmenting consciousness, but current paths lead to control via data mining, predictive models, and technocracy.

• Insights from Wall Street on greed, manufactured scarcity, central banking as power retention, and risks of digital IDs/crypto as new control mechanisms. No "grand cabal"—more nuanced competition among ego-driven players.

• Consent & Power: We embody and consent to systems; reframing reality (inside-out living) revokes power from externalities.

• Paradigm Shift: Quantum physics validates ancient hermetic principles (vibration, polarity, reciprocity), proving consciousness as reality's foundation—not materialism. This demands evolution beyond old epistemologies.

• Practical Tools: Breathwork, meditation, somatic practices as daily essentials; finding internal coherence to radiate collective change.

Aaron emphasizes empowerment: Anyone can transcend limitations by seeing the world clearly, living from inner truth, and fostering higher consciousness. We close with a shared aspiration for universal awakening and freedom.

[ Hermeticism was also brought up and the huge Thoth presentation I mentioned even though I don't really connect much with the manner of presentation the info has depth I hadn't heard much of elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6RDcWNUTNE ]

Our previous chat: Conscious Investing and The Illusion of Performance-Based Identity with Aaron Scott

https://shows.acast.com/innerskilled/episodes/conscious-investing-and-the-illusion-of-performance-based-id

https://www.theaaronscott.com

New Book: https://www.amazon.com/Before-We-Forget-Collective-Awakening/dp/1969372230/

The Evolved Podcast With Aaron Scott

https://www.instagram.com/theaaronscottofficial

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