Review: Itala's Transformation

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ITALA'S TRANSFORMATION

Experiencing The Work of Byron Katie

by Kriben Pillay

 

A 36-minute video-taped interview with a woman who

 

underwent a remarkable transformation after

experiencing

The Work of Byron Katie.

 

"In February, 2002, Itala participated in a

two-day

workshop on Transformative Training and The Work

of

Byron Katie, in Windhoek, Namibia, facilitated by

Dr.

Kriben Pillay. Coming from a background of

severely

traumatising life situations, it was pointed out

that

Itala might find the process too unsettling. But

in the

space of three months The Work too over Itala's

inward

journey the led to a remarkable transformation."

--from

the CD insert and website:

<http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/noumenon/video.htm>

 

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Itala's Transformation, by Kriben Pillay

 

A Review

 

This attractively produced movie by Dr. Kriben

Pillay,

introduces the significance, meaning, impact and

power

of Byron Katie's Work. Itala tells how she used

the Work

to the point where everything, all unnecessary

baggage,

as she calls it, had fallen away.

 

One can feel Itala coming from the stillness, the

space

of freedom, as she speaks. Some fragments:

 

"Everything is a story."

"My history has disappeared."

"Nothing matters. Everything is perfect."

"Words have not been created for this."

"I have nothing to say."

 

The interviewer asks, "Who is seeing this?" Itala:

"I

don't know. And it doesn't matter. Nothing

matters."

 

"You had a fairly traumatized past," the

interviewer

begins. "How do those events appear to you now

which

for an average person would be very, very

traumatic ...

in fact could turn many a person into the extreme

of

mental insanity or even suicide."

 

Itala: "... it's my wisdom ... all of that has

been my

wisdom and the wise steps bringing me to this

point."

 

Itala responds to the interviewer's question about

how

she relates to the perpetrator of her traumatic

experiences: "(I had this) extreme feeling of

'thank

you' for giving me your wisdom. It was a total

loving of

this person, of 'you are my wisdom'."

 

She talks about the difference realization has

made in

her life. She speaks of family, career, the

future. We

hear a bottom line statement: "I see perfection.

And

stillness. I have stillness. An immense, immense

stillness."

 

The reader should be aware that this movie does

not

give examples of Itala actually going through The

Work.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie (even more the

second

time) and the time spent with one whose history

has

disappeared, and the timeless scenes and sounds of

 

Namibia.

 

--Jerry Katz <http://nonduality.com>

 

ITALA'S TRANSFORMATION

Experiencing The Work of Byron Katie

by Kriben Pillay

 

Ordering information:

<http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/noumenon/video.htm>