From: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Gino Yu Subject: Re: TSC has been Shanghai'ed, literally! Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:05:18 +0000 Inline-Images: IMG_8391.jpeg wow. lots of agression On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Gino Yu <1 Just keeping you updated. gino Begin forwarded message: From: Gino Yu < Subject: Re: TSC has been Shanghaied, literally! Date: 29 March 2017 at 11:57:40 AM HKT To: Ben Goertzel Cc: "Hameroff, Stuart R - (hamero " CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES < James Tagg > wrote: >, Center for , Betsy Bigbee < Hi Stuart, I must object to your misrepresentations to my friends and colleagues. Just to be clear in the over ten years that I've known you, I have not done anything malicious toward you or TSC. In my last correspondence from you, you asked me for suggestions which I offered. Previous to that, I directed all speaking and workshop requests that I received to you. I do not know how this lead to your accusing "me and my friends" of "ruining it" or of running a "scam." I first met Wendy in 2009 when she came to the Hong Kong Conference that I hosted. Two years ago, she asked me to fly up to Shanghai to see her and told me that she'd like to support my organizing a consciousness event in China for the next 10 years. Her motivation was personal (Crystal Globe's main business isn't events, but cultural property development). She learned a lot from the Hong Kong event and felt that China and Asia should develop in this area. I floated the idea of hosting TSC in Shanghai for 2017 as a start and told her that I would explore that possibility. This was just as the Helsinki event was starting. If you recall, I showed up in Helsinki on the second to last day and floated the idea to you (you were leaning toward Amsterdam at the time if you recall) and you agreed to come out for a visit. I flew up to Shanghai to accompany you on that visit. During the visit, you agreed to allow us to host TSC and then Wendy surprised both of