To all members of the The Music & Psyche Network

Ičve just returned from a blissful holiday in Italy and opened the new copy
of the Journal. I am extremely dismayed to see Clement crediting himself as
sole editor - and paying me fulsome tributes as if I had resigned. This is
quite untrue, & how Clement can write such a complete misrepresentation I do
not know.

I would like therefore to set the facts before everyone.

At our steering group meeting in Oxford in November 2004 I DID discuss
resigning because I was disappointed with the lack of coherence within the
Network & thus support for the Journal. However, Rod raised the possibility
of obtaining funding from an academic journal publisher, and I there & then
withdrew my resignation in everybody's hearing - especially as there was a
general willingness to find a more coherent structure for the Network.

At that time I was the editor and Clement was associate editor. Because I
realised Clement was disappointed not to be able to take over the Journal I
invited him to become co-editor - which he accepted on December 13th.

We exchanged a considerable number of emails on editorial matters - until I
wrote on 23 Mar 2005 "In the meantime I haven't the bandwidth to engage with
the Journal. I intend to take prints of what youčve sent me to read in
Findhorn, but if you feel there is a need to press on with publication I
will happily take a back seat for this issue."

The final words make absolutely clear there was no question of my resigning
or relinquishing my editorship. Moreover, despite having said this I did in
fact edit the pieces by Shafer & Perry as well as finding the Lauten and
writing the I/v w Tucker - more than HALF the articles. Clement & I
continued to correspond on editorial matters - & he even asked me to lay out
the front cover.

And yet he claims sole editorship. I am gobsmacked ...

Michael Maxwell Steer