(Readable version) 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 delivers a few words. 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>