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The Past in the Stars, The Future in Her Eyes · Divine Dialogue

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello listeners and welcome to the Divine Dialogue Podcast, where we dig deeper into the trove of wisdom and guidance stories have to offer.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever watched a movie and felt moved?
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Felt called to make a change or reflect more deeply on your own life?
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  SPEAKER_00: If so, this podcast has a lot to offer you.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we are in episode two of the Lion King series.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you are new here, welcome.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: In our first episode, I talked in depth about the guilt program Scar installed into Simba, and this episode is where we are going to see some of the narrow gaps where Divinity can reach in and essentially reset Simba's operating mode if we're still using computer analogies, which I am quite fond of, so I'm going to keep using them.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, once again, if you are new here, please check out episode one of the series.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: I also do have a full series on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, as well as Balto.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: So for the scene recap of this episode here, I'm going to go through essentially two scenes.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: We are moving into Simba's adolescence and early adulthood.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's been sheltered from the brutality of Scar's soul violence with Hakuna Matata, which I would argue is a necessary interlude to the guilt and a temporary place of refuge for him.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: We see Simba, Tamon and Pumba stargazing one night, and Tamon and Pumba are making some silly jokes, but Simba has something deep to say, something deep that the program of guilt has overlaid.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: He tells them, My father once told me that the kings of the past are up there, watching over us.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Tamon laughs it off sarcastically, saying that there's no way a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: They laugh at him, and Simba immediately feels the shame rise that his brief time with them had covered over.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: He walks away, collapses into the grass, and sends leaves and blades of grass into the air, which make their way to Rafiki, proving he's still alive.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: This is the beginnings of Scar's lies surfacing.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Shortly after this, Simba and Nala are reunited through Simba's loyal defense of his friends.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: They have a brief romantic interlude that is cut short by the inconvenience of painful realization.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: Nala sharply states the truth that Scar is destroying the pride lands.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: He's been a terrible king, and that Simba needs to go home and take his place.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Simba pushes back, at first very timidly, hiding behind Hakuna Matata, stating that he has learned out here that bad things happen and nothing can be done.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Nala points out he has a responsibility.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: They fight.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: He feels called out and exposed, and he walks away from her to go pacing in an open field.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: And this is where we see the cracks of the guilt system start to show.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: And divine listeners, I would say this is not the climactic scene.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: The climactic scene will be when Simba reunites with Mufasa via, you know, a spiritual medium through Rafiki.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: But I do think that this is crucial because these are where we start to see the cracks of essentially a false program surface.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: So for the soul meeting here, I want to start with the I think really nice touch that the story doesn't rely completely on Nala to break this program.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: I like that they give us kind of very small cracks prior to her arrival.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Simba's already having, you know, a return moment during the stargazing.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: He's too guilt-ridden to follow it, but it's there.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I like that they also connect that to Rafiki realizing he's alive.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's a nice little, you know, bit of storytelling there.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: And Nala is essentially the, you know, crucial blow because she provides context for him that helps push him into a place where he can receive the actual truth, which is that he needs to remember and return.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, I also want to talk about the stargazing because, like, when you watch that scene, you know, it can kind of seem like Tamon and Pumba are, you know, not really good friends.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't say that they're bad friends.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I just think they're a little bit immature.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: And in that way, they do match Simba's frequency, except their frequency is more abdication of responsibility without pressure, whereas Simba released his because of pressure.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: At least as far as we know, because when we meet them, they seem to be pretty happy and content.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like they're the ones who teach him about Hakuna Matata.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: So they're essentially in the same house, but they are in different rooms, which is similar enough to share space, though, together.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: They aren't, you know, they don't have the same energy, but they're in the same house.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I really do believe, like I had alluded to before, that in life we are granted hakuna matata periods.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: Some do last years, and they give us time to grow when we need it.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: And as I said in a previous episode, Simba was rightly curious about the shadow, but was not old enough to integrate it yet.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now he's essentially reaching that place.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: So his temporary hakuna matata refuge is starting to disintegrate.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: His soul is surfacing enough that he can no longer stay in that place without feeling like there's something more for him.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: It makes him sad to recount what his father had told him.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's like knowing it's true that he never left him, but his guilt steps in and says, It's your fault, he's not here in form anymore.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: Simba doesn't know how to reconcile those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he walks away in shame and eventually collapses into the grass in defeat, not realizing that the voice of guilt is not his.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually scars.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: He just adopted it and practiced it over time.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, when Nala and him meet, let me tell you, as a lesbian woman with very high masculine energy, there's nothing quite like being ready to integrate and the immense help an integrated feminine energy is to that desire.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: And when I talk about feminine energy here, I mean feminine as leader through truth, desire, embodiment, and invitation because Nala gives him an idea of what could be waiting for him if he integrates.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I find it very interesting because the lyrics in the song are very telling.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Simba talks about in Can You Feel the Love Tonight that Nala would turn away.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is a direct lyric quote here.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: He says, The truth about my past, impossible.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: She'd turn away from me.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: And it's funny that he says, you know, she'll turn away, but what actually happens is he turns away from her because he's projecting his feelings of guilt onto her.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I also think this is a very timely place to talk about how we tend to essentially overlay program over program in our lives.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: Because as we know from episode one, Simba is running, you know, the guilt program at full speed at this point.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: He's been practicing it for a long time.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: But if Nala wasn't as loyal to the truth as, you know, and the good of the kingdom as she is, Simba could have easily layered a romantic love program over top of the guilt program.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Since Simba is still looking for someone to tell him who he is.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: So then that's the thing that's really tricky about external programs that are not from your soul, is it they're kind of interchangeable and you can have layers of them.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: It almost reminds me of it.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: This just came to mind as I was talking, but if you've ever watched the show hoarders, you know, and they have like a very dirty house and they're cleaning out the rooms and the layers of junk, and you keep finding layer after layer after layer after layer.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I think internal programs can be that way.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: You might think, oh, this is just, you know, one layer, and then it could be another layer.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I think if the storytelling had decided to get really complex, which it would probably wouldn't for a kid's movie, but you could easily see him have a guilt program, and then he could have had a romantic love program because Simba had been relying on Scar's, you know, program to this point.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's been his map, which essentially is the internal voice of it's my fault, my father is dead, and I do not deserve to be with my pride.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: But he could have layered on top of that, well, Nala is back, maybe she'll stay and we can be here together.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: The problem with that is he still wants to stay where he is out of fear and guilt, and she's too divinely centered to go along with that.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: So she challenges it in him.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Now, she does this very pointedly and sharply, but everything she tells him is truthful.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: She just doesn't understand the gravity of the pain he is carrying.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: In her mind, it's essentially, you know, very simple and straightforward.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Scar is a terrible king, and now that you're grown and healthy and you're actually alive, you need to come back and reverse the damage he's done because it's your responsibility as you know, a fully grown lion with essentially the legacy of the king, the kingdom in your genes, like you need to come back and essentially take your place.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: But she doesn't know about the gorge or the lies or the manipulation or the soul violence we talked about in the last episode.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: She even says, what else matters?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: You're alive, and that means you're the king.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: But Simba doesn't feel like he can be king of a whole pride because he's not even king of his own soul.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: The guilt program is in charge of him, and that's a very real thing.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Simba is deeply good hearted and good natured, but that's still not divine.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's definitely closer to divinity than being like Scar, who doesn't care if the kingdom lies in ruins as long as he has the title he wants.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: Simba is aware enough to know that he couldn't possibly be king because he lost touch with his own remembrance, which is why I said which is why I said what Scar did to him was absolutely horrific.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: And Nala is great motivation for Simba.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: He likes her, he wants her, and she wants him too, but she wants the real him, and she knows he's in there.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: She even says in the song, he's holding back, he's hiding, but what I can't decide.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Why won't he be the king I know he is, the king I see inside?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing too about romantic love or the beginnings of it in this context is that this kind of connection requires you to be in touch with yourself and in remembrance.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, you just assign your identity to that other person.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: And Simba is way too decentered for a relationship with her to work at this point.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Of course they both want that.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: She's drawn to the potential, which I would say is a common feminine trap, and he is drawn to her, which is why I've decided to name this episode The Past in the Stars, the Future in Her Eyes.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because the great kings of the past, including Simba's father, are there, even though Simba doesn't know that at this point.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: And Nala is showing him that his future could be through her gaze.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: He just has to remember the past, what Mufasa told him in the field when he was a cub, which was the great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you, and so will I.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's gonna bring me into my personal mirror here.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, divine listeners, this is a very interesting episode to record because I don't feel like I can point to a specific memory or even present life event in my current experience.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: I feel very much like Simba in some ways, which is being in a transitional period.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: But I think these transitional periods are numerous throughout our lives.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: It makes me think of Harry Potter with the mirror, what he sees at the beginning versus the end, and we'll have various mirror of Erashead evolutions throughout our lives.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: In Simba's case, it's Nala and his own growth into a full-fledged lion that allows him to fully step into the future in her eyes stage of his life.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: I suppose for me, the closest thing I can relate to that was huge was leaving the last job I had and the current job I'm in.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been in this new job exactly a year now.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: I briefly talked about that in our Seeker episode in the Harry Potter series, but my old job was very much governed by my past programming.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: It was a very, very necessary Hakuna matata phase for me.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean the whole department is Hakuna Matata, though.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: Some people may experience it as more of a future place they've arrived at, but for me, it was a temporary holding place where I could gain some stability and security because I simply wasn't fully ready to step into myself.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: The job I had was incredibly predictable.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was more or less the same every single day, or night, or afternoon.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: I actually carouseled all three shifts in my time there, but it wasn't challenging at all.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: There was plenty of room for me and my program of essentially fear of failure and perfectionism to coexist.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: This was my SCAR program.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because I mastered the job.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: I hardly ever made mistakes, and the mistakes I did make were so inconsequential that those wounded parts of me were never invited, which, you know, not forced, but invited to step back into the whole of me that they had been severed from.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: And this can bring a very damaging but strangely comfortable sense of easiness.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: You can be lulled into complacency.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's no joke sometimes when you start to reclaim those pieces of yourself.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's not for the what do they say, those with weak stomachs or weak souls, I guess you you could say.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's quite a journey.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: But for me, essentially the future in her eyes part of my personal mirror for this episode was my own eyes.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: And when I look in the mirror now, I do see a different woman because I chose to step into another job, which is my current job, where opportunities to make mistakes and having to navigate much more complex tasks is going to naturally unearth parts in me that had been buried under the comfort of a job I could essentially do in my sleep.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't believe at all that the current job I'm in is meant to be mine forever, but it's a necessary stepping stone for me, and it was a very, very difficult journey, mostly because the programs that had served me for years couldn't serve there, and I didn't have the body regulation I have now.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I had many sleepless nights, many instances of my body speaking out in protest in the form of nosebleeds, chest pain, anxiety attacks, while I learned the new job.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: However, there wasn't even really another layer under that because learning the job wasn't really addressing the root issue.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: The root issue was perfectionism and fear of failure, which is my scar program.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I've gotten so much more comfortable with allowing more space for error, more gray, more feminine, really, because when I started this job, I tried to structure or tried to masculinize all of it to contain it, to feel like I had control of it.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: And Simba does this to some extent in Hakuna Matada land.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: He has his whole day ahead of him knowing exactly what it'll be.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Some grub, some rest, some walking around.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing challenges him.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Sure, he may have a painstaking moment of realization, where the awareness of the program seeps through like it did, like it does under the stars, but he was very much lulled into a no worries for the rest of your days, which is desperately what his cub self needed, and it's what I needed too for a long time.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: I would say through all of my twenties and into my early thirties, I definitely needed it.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: I did the best I could with what I was aware of and the tools I had at the time.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: But like Simba, I outgrew that holding place.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I think, ironically enough, staying in that holding place can begin to feel just as painful as what put you there in the first place when you start to outgrow it.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because the truth is, the holding place never should have been.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: The programs never should have severed parts of you from the whole of you, but they did.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: And you had to go through it, but that's the key, through it, not trapped in it forever.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you really want to get to the future in her eyes, whatever that looks like for you, you have to go through it and choose to leave it.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: The thing is, and I want to emphasize this, you can always pick the program back up if you really want to.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to emphasize this because people I think really get stuck in thinking that if they progress, they can't regress, and you can absolutely regress.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: The fear will tell you, well, if you put it down, you can't pick it back up.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: But that's not true.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: I do think it's true that once you see something, you can't unsee it, and that will come with its own kind of pain because then you know, or you could say your soul, your higher self knows that it is so much like in your awareness that it feels like you're essentially wearing shoes that you've outgrown.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: It just hurts with every step you're not taking, or every false step you do take.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: So that is its own kind of pain.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: But you always have the choice to progress or regress.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: The choice is always yours.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: I really do believe that.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, just to continue on my personal mirror here, the job that I'm in, you know, shined a much-needed light on the parts of me living in the shadowy kingdom.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: It gave me a chance to invite them back in.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm totally kidding.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not wrapping up quite yet.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I actually do have an interesting approach that kind of brought in my inner child with this integration into my new job that was very helpful for me as I was traversing this new environment because essentially I came to realize that it was my little girl who was really scared, just like Cub Simba was scared.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I essentially told her, I said, little Jess, you know, everyone else has a little someone inside too.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there all of us have inner children.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: And when I was a kid, I struggled to learn how to swim because I would pretend to do the exercises.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: So even then, I was afraid to learn new things because it felt like I would do it wrong.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: But one teacher noticed and she made sure I did the exercises.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: One I always hated was going underwater and blowing bubbles.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: I would keep my head, my mouth essentially, just on the surface of the water and blow the bubbles, but I never went fully under.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: And literally now I've gone under, under the programming to reclaim myself.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I told little Jess something like, you know, honey, everyone here has to blow bubbles because we work in a team.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it was always being on the phone that was the worst part.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And essentially, in my job, we are all in a queue together, and when one of us takes a call, it takes you back to the bottom of the queue, and then, you know, the next person, and so on, and so on.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I essentially told my inner child, you know, sometimes we'll be called to blow bubbles and go underwater, but I promise we won't drown because I've got you.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: And she really needed to hear that because she had largely been running my life before this job, and she still, you know, can make some noise sometimes, but essentially her pain dictated my decisions.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, I was finally turning towards her, but she had a lot of pain that wasn't really brushed up against because I had built a life structure around containing that pain.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: She still bled, she still cried, but it was like the structure blocked it out to a degree, but to a bearable degree, which is one way to live.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you can live in the past, you can live in the program, but you'll be perpetually stunted if you do.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's not something you can grow from.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I'm learning in real time, most especially at this specific point in my life in this job.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: And with that, I will truly get into the divine dialogue questions, no more delays.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: But divine the listeners, I have essentially three questions for you today, which are what past program has been running your life?
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: What is calling you forward now?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Do you feel more excited or terrified to walk towards the future in her eyes?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I'll address parts of these questions by also bringing up more of the seeker episode of Harry Potter.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I talked about how back in that episode that there will be golden snitch moments in our lives, and I think this applies in Lion King as well.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Simba had simply dropped out of the game altogether in many ways.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: He wasn't playing the main game, and he wasn't playing the divinity game.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: So in that seeker episode, I talked about essentially the lower plane game of the chasers, the beaters, the keepers, and the divinity plane of the seekers.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: And he was, you know, Simba was essentially sitting on the sidelines in safety because he was so terrified.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: So for him, walking towards the future in her eyes started out as a very appealing, you know, when we have the love song.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can kind of get lost in the romantic fantasy, but it quickly becomes terrifying for him because Nala is a presence that requires him to release that past program.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Mufasa even tells him very shortly after, in the next scene that we will cover, you are more than what you have become.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Simba knows that deep down.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I think knowing that is the difference between whether you'll be more excited or more terrified.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you can really embody that feeling of I am more than what I have become, then it can be a much more exciting journey than a terrifying journey.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I want to also say, in thinking about these questions, it's not really about disciplining yourself into behaving properly.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's a very surface approach, and I also think can be a very unkind approach.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's more about soothing and comforting, but also lovingly moving forward that cub part of you that is scared to move.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can definitely, like I said, you can be ruthless, you can be unkind, you can drag that part of you forward.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what high-functioning people do, but it doesn't come without a price.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: I think it just adds another layer of trauma.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of like that program overlay that I was talking about earlier.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Simba had the opportunity to have a romantic overlay.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think you can have a high-functioning overlay, you can have another part of you essentially become the manager of this maybe younger part that's afraid, but there is another way.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that the way is to remove the program layer altogether and get back to essentially who you always were underneath it, and to follow the future in her eyes' path, whatever that looks like for you.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I will go ahead and leave it there, Divine Listeners.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for sitting with me through the second episode in our Lion King series.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: We are halfway through now.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: We have two more episodes to go, and the very next one will probably be the most memorable scene in the movie when Mufasa says, Remember who you are.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: And as I'm sitting in my guest room here recording this episode, I do have a poster of that scene behind me on the wall.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: There are actually three posters behind me.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: One is for Balto, one is the Remember Who You Are uh poster scene of Lion King, and the one to the right of that is a poster of Sora from the Kingdom Hearts uh game, which I will go ahead and announce this now.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: I don't believe it's next week, I think it's the week after.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: I will have a two-episode uh special, and it's going to involve the Kingdom Hearts game that was released, I believe, in 2002.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: The reason I'm doing this is because it was the North American release of the game.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: So I was going to do a special episode just on essentially the first like two minutes of that game because when Sora is picking out his powers in the game, there's a couple choice quotes in there that I absolutely love.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I got such a kick out of the wordplay that we are doing Lion King, and then it's Lion Kingdom Hearts.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I thought that was really cool and the timing of it that it happened to be released uh in September.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: So that'll be exciting.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: But I just wanted to let you know there will be a two episode special week coming very soon.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so make sure to stay tuned for the rest of the series, and I will see you next Friday.