Raj Patel
Raj Patel, is an academic, journalist and writer and also a British born American.
He released, and is best known for his book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, in 2008. And this year in February his newest book, The Value of Nothing, was on the New York Times best-seller list.
Called everything from the new world teacher, to being criticized for his beliefs, everyone has something to say about the man.
For an example of those thoughts, here is Patel’s thoughts on Generosity, Generosity makes us happiest. We’ll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I’m connected to everyone I disappear … in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you’re connected to everyone, that’s the best thing that can happen.
For a little more controversy, there have been the ideas behind Benjamin Creme, a man who claims to receive telepathic transmissions from a master Maitreya, and with these transmissions, he has been given clues to Maitreya’s earthly arrival.
Some of those clues are, that he arrived on Earth in 1972, went to England in 1977, that he will be dark skinned, and also has a stutter.
Which sounds suspiciously like Raj Patel.
He is a scholar who is currently visiting in the Center for African Studies at the University of California. And is also a fellow at Food First, known as the Institute of Food and Development Policy, and a Research Associate at the School of Development Studies at the South African, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
He was asked to testify before the House Financial Services Committee in the USA, on the global food crisis.
Patel also became a US citizen in January 2010.
I am sure we will be hearing more about Patel in the future.