The Book of Offerings

By Mel C. Thompson

In twenty-eight paragraphs, a real-life American polytheist shares his daily practice and minimalist teachings in the hope that it will help plant the seeds of ten-thousand new religions on American soil.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mel C. Thompson
• Release date: Aug 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215707531

Mel C. Thompson

Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...

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THE BOOK OF OFFERINGS

Notes On The Daily Practice of American Polytheism

Mel C. Thompson

Copyright © 2023

Mel C. Thompson Publishing

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Lafayette, CA 94549

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I’ve put a copyright notation above, but everyone is free to copy this document at will and circulate it on any platform or in any medium. I only copyrighted it to guarantee that I also have the right to circulate the book on my own and also to prevent others from copyrighting the text and attempting to forbid others from copying or circulating it. Hence, I declare this document free to duplicate and circulate without any payment to me being required.

Credits for the ideas in the text:

No single idea in this text is my own, but rather all of the ideas here are drawn from a wide array of sources, many you will recognize