Bro. Matt Parker is a Past Master of Wendell Lodge 565 in Wendell, North Carolina; a member of the Texas Lodge of Research; 32° Scottish Rite Mason in the Greensboro Valley, SJ; York Rite; AMD and several other appendant bodies; co-organizer of Masonic Con South; founder of the North Carolina Masonic Research Society; and member of the Masonic Legacy Society; Academy of Reflection; Masonic Society; Philalathas Society and American Masonic Renaissance Integration; Bro. Matt focusses his interests in the esoteric studies of the Craft and the lessons of self-development contained therein.