Food Activist Confused for Messiah
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 14:00 (3426/4)
Raj Patel, food-activist and author of The Value of Nothing has been matched to a series of prophecies made by an 87-year-old Scottish mystic called Benjamin Creme, the leader of a little-known religious group known as Share International. Because he matched the profile, hundreds of people around the world believed that Patel was the living embodiment of a figure they called Maitreya, the Christ or "the world teacher".
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