“He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.”
[London author Raj] Patel’s background and work coincidentally matched 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”.
In case you didn’t understand the reference in my post title and in other stories about Patel, it’s from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a hilarious movie that you have to see this instant if you haven’t already… 🙂