Comments on: Eat Pray Love- Meeting Ketut Liyer

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:57:23 +0000

Wow, I am so glad I didn’t see him when I was over there! The Balinese are such nice people, but look what happened with the ‘healer’ Wayan in the book. Liz helped her out and then she tried to get more and more money out of her! I also heard about the tours with Ketut and figured these people will have so many tourists visiting them now there’s no way it would be as authentic as Liz’s story and there are probably hundreds of people in Bali with the same gifts that desperately need money.

I was in Ubud for one day (I was staying in Sanur) and decided I wanted to see a spiritual healer or something similar for the experience, i tried booking into a couple but couldn’t get in for weeks ( the place was absolutely heaving with tourists but it was my first time in Ubud so I don’t know if it is always like that), eventually i came across Wayan’s shop and although she was working on another woman (an american woman asking her to read her mind!) she invited me in. For about 250,000 you’re there for about 3 hours, and you get a body scrub, a massage, and a variety of drinks and herbal medicines to take home. Wayan still has the same humble little shop Liz describes in the book, and she was very sweet and funny.

There was nothing spectacular about the treatment though, I had far nicer ‘Balinese’ experiences with the gorgeous locals, chatting with the ladies on the beach whilst having a pedicure, and feeding the homeless dogs wandering around!

By: Trudi

Trudi — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:43:58 +0000

My husband, adult daughter & I visited Ketut Liyer a couple of weeks ago & he told all of us the same story VERBATUM, same story I have read on this site that he has told everyone else. I hope that means we will all live till 100 & be successful but something tells me he is reading from a script.

I was so disappointed.

By: Victoria H

Victoria H — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:57:40 +0000

Totally agree….are people really thinking he can tell their future. Its a game and everyone that goes to see him are playing the game. Good luck to him….its his chosen profession. If my $25 helps him educate his kids and help his community, its money well spent.

By: Judas

Judas — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:43:06 +0000

This guy is great, this is the bare essence of religion/superstition.
People just want to be fooled.

By: marie

marie — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:24:51 +0000

I went and saw him in August 2011. I had my daughter and son with me 11 & 9 years. My son had been growing his hair long to have it beaded in bali, which it was when we saw him. When we all sat down to hear the reading he also told me I was very very pretty,very very lucky,very very rich and I would have 2 daughters even though my son kept telling him he was a boy he insisted I had 2 daughters, 1 husband and to wake up during the night and have good sex???? A$25 later I heard him tell the lady after me and the 2 ladies before me the same story. I saw the birds and the dogs….. they didn’t look harmed though. It took 4 hours to get to see him, he does 25 readings a day for $25. I read the book years ago and really wanted to see him so I was glad I saw him but I was disapointed because it was on my bucket list….and I am glad I did it just wish it was a little “real” rather than a production line. Can’t blame him though Bali is a poor country and he got lucky, very very lucky and very very rich.

By: Victoria H

Victoria H — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:39:47 +0000

Well i’ve just returned from Bali….and Ubud. Iwas at Ubud 25 years ago. So much has changed. I also saw Ketit Liyer and I waited three hours. I’m not pretty I’m beautiful ha ha. Take out of it what you want like anything in this world that someone tells you. It wa an experience just seeing his smiling face and listening to his laughter. Go to Bali see him after all you are the tourist. XX

By: carol guilbault

carol guilbault — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:58:31 +0000

please read my post about Ketut do not support him..he is an evil man! do not waste your time or money. support one of the local animal org in Bali who is actually doing good for the community. i just found out that not only does he have excotic birds in small cages, a golden retriever tethered to a post..he has 2 pitbulls in tiny cages in the back fo his compound suffering in the heat and in need of medical attention. please pass this along and do not support him. i will not stop until this man is out of business and all the animals are freed! i go back to the US today but wont give up on these animals…please join me in the efforts to stop him!

By: carol guilbault

carol guilbault — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:20:04 +0000

I went to see this jerk today. I was amazed to see how he treats animals. He has used his money to buy exotic birds and keeps them in small cages, they look sickly and very unhappy. He has a golden retriever who has a metal chain around his neck and it is imbedded into his skin. There was a old dog who was clearly in need of antibiotics, yellow puss coming out of his eye and respitory issues and was kicked by his adult son right in front of us. I asked several staff members to please put a collar that fit on the golden and they just laughed.
Of course just like all the others i have sugar lips, i will live to be 100 and the man of my dreams will come into my life in a year and we will be married for life.
If you give money to this person you are contributing to animal cruelty and I suggest you take the 250,000 and donate it to one of the local Bali animal rescue groups that need money to help spay and vaccinate the local dogs and cats. BAWA or Bark are org’s that need of support.
If you do decide to be foulish like i was then please open a cage and let one of the birds free! Go out back of his compound near the bathrooms where he keeps his exotics.

By: Viola Woolcott

Viola Woolcott — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:11:07 +0000

I am wondering that too Wilson. I was JUST about to book my ticket and go in August, but now I am not sure anymore. I have read more ‘bad’ stuff somewhere else and it even says that the locals in Ubud want to go back to peace and they want people to leave. That is why they are calling it ‘eat pray leave’ now. I am not sure what to think anymore, so I will wait and do a bit more research. Maybe it is all made up and just a money making. That would naturally NOT surprise me. ;-(

By: Viola Woolcott

Viola Woolcott — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:28:42 +0000

WELL!!! That all sounds disappointing and if there weren’t so much ‘negative’ input, I would have booked my ticket next week. Now I am wondering. Hmmmmm????

I don’r watch TV, but a friend of mine ‘made’ me watch the film with me. She said you got to watch this, it so reminds me of you…. dare I say, I have watched the film ‘Eat Pray Love’ 5 times. Bought the amazon ebook reader and bought the ebook ‘Eat Pray Love’. I am just at the ‘Ubud’ story in the book and I got really into going there the more I read. Now, after reading all of the comments on here I wonder if the Elizabeth Gilbert story isn’t made up? Wouldn’t that piss off a lot of people in their search??? It certainly would me. I wouldn’t want to pay out even $30 to listen to sugar lips and being a 100 years, as I would KNOW it is the same story everyone else has been told (including Liss – as Ketut is supposed to have called her?)….

I will do more research and unfortunately my excitement about the decision to go to Ubud for a month turned into a ‘sour taste’ in my stomach… Now I am suspicious!!!