BOOKS
Kiefer and Oren, the Story of a Tree: & Three Nature Meditations
In the book entitled Kiefer and Oren, the Story of a Tree, author Merrick Rees Hamer leads the reader beyond the ordinary perspective, to the portal at which to discover the ever-flowing rivers between the divine and natural worlds. In it the chief character, Kiefer, meets his Holy Guardian Angel, who had been disguised as a tree, and which he had named Oren. By means of their union, Kiefer realizes his true identity and purpose. It is a story of expanded vision, healing, and destiny. Although cloaked as fiction, the story transcends any perceived confinement to fantasy by lifting the reader’s hand to such heights, that the most exalted ideals ever thought of are within his or her reach. The story is followed by three nature meditations, reinforcing many of the concepts identified in the previous story, and surmounting the barriers between the higher and lower worlds.
Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas
In 2007, Merrick Rees Hamer was invited to address an international conclave of the Fraternity of Hidden Light, Paul Clark, a prominent Freemason who then was serving as Steward of Fraternitas L.V.X. Occulta. Hamer chose the subject of primal light even as it existed in its unmixed, purest form. During his address, he pursued a phenomenon as it has been understood by a Judeo-Christian perspective, from the beginning of creation through the mission of Christ and its eventual manifestation in the ancient mysteries. Subsequently, Hamer’s work, was published by Newman University in a journal named Archaeopteryx, as an article entitled In Praise of the Mystical Light. The journal, edited by Freemason and Poet Laureate, Bryan Dietrich, also features works of two other distinguish members of Culver City-Foshay Lodge, No. 467, F. &A.M., Worshipful Brother, Professor Curtis Scott Shumaker, PM, and Film maker, Christopher Coppola.
Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas exists to provide a space for meaningful academic and creative work that investigates the true, the beautiful, and the good. We welcome faith, we welcome reason, we welcome the sublime. Named for the first bird—ancient, fossilized, frozen as if in the act of flying through shale—Archaeopteryx is intended to shake free stone and set the soul free to soar.