WORKERBEE: No, I did not contradict myself....I was asking if there are any conferences BESIDES the one which is being held by an organization of which he is Chairman of their Board
http://www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org/index2.html.....Also, you did not answer the question, 2-3 hours a week or month?
SG: Okay, so now he is going to attend a conference or give a lecture or whatever.
WORKERBEE: This is not "guilt by omission", rather, NON-Guilt by lack of time to clarify for people such as yourself....I disagree with you regarding your interpretation of where Geraldo was going with Ms. Macy regarding the NIH funding....he (Geraldo) went to U of A, knows the deal of how government funding works et al.....that is all he was implying.
SG: Yes, lack of time to clarify for who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people NOT like myself who knew darn well the NIH Grant was not for mediumship studies.
WORKERBEE: I don't know where the hell you are going here Steve, please be clear.
SG: You are seriously not aware of the fact that the donor, the guy who appeared on Geraldo, pledged $100,000.00, gave a check to the Dean for $50K and then reneged on the balance of the pledge? Some schools sue donors when this happens. You are seriously not aware that he asked GS if he would be interested in a business proposition, vaguely but not thoroughly explained to me so I am sorry can't be more specific involving a commercial business involving mediumship and that GS rejected the notion of any participation in such a profit making venture on the grounds it would conflict with his position? And this may have disaffected this potential donor?
WORKERBEE: Well, ok, but i think this response is a cop-out by you and GS in order to not response....since when is GS so mumm?
SG: Its part of the reason but let's be clear. It's not a cop out by me. In case you haven't noticed I have answered any questions to the best of my ability. The other part was mentioned and it is based on the possibility of legal action and the fact that the UA and GS' attorney don't want him publicly responding without them vetting what he says. This would be extremely difficult and time consuming for these other parties and highly impractical in a venue like this.
Workerbee: Frankly Steve you have admitted yourself that you can not phathom the complexity of the details involved in this matter, so your sarcasm is not helpful here. I am truly trying to be fair to all sides of the truth here, I could say and do many things that I do not.
SG: I admitted this a few days after Geraldo aired and since then I have been appraised of the nature of the disputes which we have gone over repeatedly. Irrespective of whether anyone agrees or not with GS' research or manner of research, I have been told by GS and I have read in his formal statement to date, that the parties who organized this are disaffected and carrying a lot of hostile baggage for the following reasons:
1. The request that each research medium donate 4 hrs a month to the lab.
2. The request that certain mediums do not show up in the lab impaired by or under the influence of alcohol.
3. The request that in view of #2 above the mediums take an ethics determining
exam and study to be certified as Integrated Research Mediums. This could only
have ultimately benefitted them but they didn't see it that way.
4. The fact that the mediums rejected #3 and took it as an insult, caused them to
resign before they would be asked to leave.
5. That one medium suddenly decided that revelations about her daughter in GS'
book Truth about Medium (which I still did not read) were out of line and included
without parental permission even though GS says it was discussed with her and was public information.
6. The sudden complaint by Alsion Dubois that Truth about Medium was unauthorized even though
GS says Alison asked for the book to be written and was given the manuscript to read
and okay before it was submitted. Alison even asked for one thing to be deleted (which
was done). Do you know if this is true or not? I obviously am relying on what I was
told; by your knowledge it sounds like you may know this as fact or not.
Ditto for all of the above, items 1 through 6. Anything I say is obviously hearsay.
Up to a few days post Geraldo I truly didn't know about or understand the dispute. Nobody shared any of these issues with anybody else including me, privately or on TM until Jeff started planting short announcement posts about these issues and
Geraldo on TM.
It was explained to me by GS and is in his statement that Items #5 and #6 ocurred AFTER #3 occurred.
WB: Yes, I do know this; however, if GS's reason for an excuse for not replying is being inundated by e-mails I do not believe....
SG: Your privilege. Remember, again, this was only part of the rationale I was given by GS. Actually nobody needs any reason not to respond here.
PS: GS statement to me was a couple of hours per week is all he has devoted to mediumship in the lab at the present time.
