May 1, 2018. Jenna Luché-Thayer

consulting Senior Advisor - US Government, United Nations, non-profits, corporate social responsibility programs

Friends,

I was recently contacted by a well-known Lyme advocate who shared some information with me [GOSSIP] regarding Kristen Honey, the Vice Chair of the Tick Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG).

However, I need to make the following statement before I disclose this rather sensitive information.

I entirely uphold the constitutional right to freedom of religion; this includes the right of all persons to not have religious or spiritual beliefs of others imposed upon their life. Furthermore, it is the right of all persons to not have religious or spiritual beliefs of others interfere with or obstruct their access to health care.

That being said, it is now time to present this sensitive information.

PART ONE. Spiritual/Religious Beliefs

PART ONE. 1. Honey is featured in a ‘healing book’

Rachael Bleau [1] is a Doctor of Metaphysical Science. Bleau’s Doctor degree can be earned on-line from the UniversityofMetaphysics.com. Honey is featured in Bleau’s book titled Clear Your Way to Freedom —the key to unlocking your whole healing [2].

According to this book, Bleau uses a spiritual/religious belief in ‘Ascended Masters’ (page 39,40,59, 61, 62, 76, 81) to heal persons [3]. Bleau claims her ‘metaphysical and spiritual knowledge bridges the gap between both spiritual and scientific communities’ and “channels from the source of THEY” [1]. Currently, Bleau charges $350 for a 90 minute session and this fee is applied to the retainer fee [1].

Page 78 of this book describes Honey’s general background, confirming it is the same Kristen Honey who is the Vice Chair of the TBDWG [3].

PART ONE. 2. What are Ascended Masters?

It is believed that Ascended Masters are individuals who were once embodied on Earth and learned the lessons of life in their incarnations. They gained mastery over the limitations of the physical matter wherein humans think they live. It is believed that these Ascended Masters serve as the teachers of mankind from the realms of Spirit, and that all people will eventually attain their Ascension and move forward in spiritual evolution beyond this planet. Beliefs about Ascended Masters have been incorporated into certain organizations such as the Great White Brotherhood [4].

Ascended Masters are kind of like ‘mini gods’

Adherents of these Ascended Master Teachings believe that the All-Pervading Presence of God does not act nor create except through Its Individualizations. All creation comes forth through These Individual Identities and is sustained by Them. Included in this Cosmic Hierarchical scheme are Solar Logoi, Elohim, Sons and Daughters of God, Ascended Masters, Cosmic Beings, the Twelve Solar Hierarchies, Archangels, Angels, Beings of the Elements, and Twin Flames of the Alpha-Omega Polarity sponsoring Systems of Worlds and entire Galactic Systems.

One's placement on this cosmic hierarchical scheme is determined by one's level of Spiritual Attainment —measured by Awareness and Manifestation of balanced Love, Wisdom, and Power— as well as the embodying of other Divine Qualities. This means that anyone can become an Ascended Master through ‘spiritual attainment’.

PART ONE. 3. Ascended Masters help to heal Honey

According to this book, Bleau used her ‘spirit team’, which includes Ascended Masters, to heal Honey from illness including Lyme disease (page 76) [3]. On page 74, Bleau writes about finding an ‘unhappy attachment’ that was hooked on Honey’s left adrenal and 'hanging on for dear life'. In this passage the author states she removed the unhappy attachment while Honey saw ‘black energy dissipating'. Bleau goes on to state that Honey then fills up with ‘a golden light like honey’ ‘just like her last name’ [3].

On page 76, Bleau refers to the root energy of Honey’s debilitating Lyme disease as being evil. Bleau’s spiritual team was assembled and gave her instructions on where to place her hands on Honey. Bleau found ‘a dark seat of energy’ on Honey’s right thigh. Bleau then ‘profiled the energy’ to locate its home and claims to have heard a hissing sound, like that of a snake, when she pulled the evil energy from Honey’s body.

PART TWO. Beliefs about Healing Lyme

PART TWO.1. A 2013 Blog by the Better Health Guy

According to this 2013 blog, Honey gave a presentation at the Integrative Lyme Solutions: The Evidence Basis Conference on June 21-22, 2013 in Dallas, Texas [4].

Honey shared her own personal recovery story. Honey spoke about how she was very sick, ‘likely from tick bites’ and struggled with Lyme infection, Babesia, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, and Mold. In her presentation, Honey noted:

× she did ‘mind, body and spirit work for her successful recovery’

× much of healing ‘is the responsibility of the patient to work on the spiritual or ‘upper levels’ of oneself

× her healing was supported by nanoparticles of gold and silver

Apparently, Honey said she ‘feels strongly that we [Lyme patients] can recover 100% if we choose to’.

PART TWO.2. Summary of Beliefs about Healing Lyme

According the author of the 2014 publication of Clear Your Way to Freedom, it appears that Honey was healed of Lyme disease and its co-infections, in part by drawing upon the powers and guidance of Ascended Masters.

As noted, at the 2013 Dallas Conference, Honey appears to believe:

× healing requires work on the spiritual self

× full 100% recovery from Lyme and co-infections can take place if the patient chooses

PART THREE. What are the Implications for the TBDWG?

As Vice Chair, Honey has influence over the TBDWG. However, one would hope that Honey would be professional and respectful of others by not imposing her beliefs on the TBDWG process and its subsequent Congressional Report.

PART THREE.1. Have Honey’s beliefs have been introduced or promoted through the work of the TBDWG?

Some of you may have read the article I wrote regarding Anna Frost , a member of the‘ Access to Care Services and Support to Patients Subcommittee’ [5].

In this article, I note that Frost introduces herself as 'a thought leader' and 'social influencer' on her website. I refer to her PhD study of five Lyme disease sufferers in the Pacific Northwest for six months in 2015. According to Frost,

"The participants in my study who are on their way to optimal health are the ones who choose happiness at least 80% of the time" [7].

A couple of sources have shared that Honey insisted Anna Frost be placed on the Access to Care Services and Support to Patients Subcommittee. This makes sense as it appears that both Honey and Frost share a common belief. This belief is that wellness occurs when sick people choose to get well.

Does this mean that Honey and Frost believe that persons suffering from Lyme disease, including chronic Lyme with serious debilitation and disability, choose to stay sick?

Does this mean that Honey believes that these patients, many who are impoverished by their illness, should pay $350 for a 90 minute session with Bleau? Or someone with Bleau’s special healing powers?

Furthermore, would these beliefs partly explain why Honey, herself a Lyme patient, did not ensure that members of the Access to Care Services and Support to Patients Subcommittee undertake and complete their tasks in support of the TBDWG legal mandate and as detailed by the TBDWG’s Designated Federal Officer Richard Wolitski?

It should be noted that none of this Subcommittee’s tasks specified anything related to ‘choosing happiness’ or ‘choosing to recover’.

PART THREE.2. Do Honey’s beliefs qualify her to be a Lyme patient advocate and Vice Chair of the TBDWG?

This answer depends upon your objectives.

For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to promote the fraud that persons suffering from persistent and complicated cases of Lyme disease following a short course of antibiotics suffer from non-biologically based psychosomatic symptoms.

The CDC promotes the fraudulent Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS). The description of PTLDS continues to misapply Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) as a form of psychosomatic illness to persons suffering from this debilitating and often devastating disease [8].

It should be noted that the term and concept MUS has been repudiated by the American Psychiatric Association and has been deleted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). Nevertheless, the CDC prefers to stigmatize and insult a vulnerable and suffering patient community by ignoring psychiatric expert opinion regarding MUS.

Furthermore, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) share the CDC’s opinions on Lyme and MUS. Health insurance companies also benefit greatly from these views as they do not support medical care for biological illness. Also note that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) act as government-based health insurers, as do the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) under Veterans Affairs.

Therefore, one can only imagine that health insurance companies, CMS, VHA, CDC, NIH, and IDSA, might be happy to have Honey promoted as a Lyme patient advocate and TBDWG Vice Chair.

I imagine these organizations might also be happy to have John Aucott as the TBDWG Chair as Aucott is a long-standing champion of the fraudulent PTLDS.

These entities would want Honey as Vice Chair and Aucott as Chair of the TBDWG if their objectives are to:

× maintain the status quo

× obstruct health insurance coverage for the Lyme treatment options that have been validated by internationally accepted standards for clinical practice guidelines

× stigmatize, marginalize and discriminate against persons suffering from persistent and complicated cases of Lyme following a short course of antibiotics by claiming they are psychosomatic hypochondriacs

CLOSING and QUESTION

In closing, let me state that these objectives promote human rights abuses against those suffering from Lyme, including those with complicated and persistent cases and co-infections. These human rights abuses have been on record with the United Nations since June 2017 and more documentation of these violations have since accumulated.

The ‘status quo’ systemic obstacles to diagnosis and treatment experienced by many Lyme patients cause unnecessary suffering, debilitation, disability and even death. Many receive their diagnosis years after this infection has damaged many bodily systems and many have lost their ability to earn an income.

In my experience, many Lyme patients ‘choose to recover’. However, ‘choosing to recover’ must be matched with access to medical care and choice among treatment options, including long-term antimicrobial therapies.

What do you think?

Faithfully,

Jenna

Jenna Luché-Thayer. 32 years working globally on the rights of the marginalized — Former Senior Adviser to the United Nations and US Government. Founder, Global Network on Institutional Discrimination™ — Holding institutions accountable for political and scientific solutions. Founder and Director, Ad Hoc Committee for Health Equity in ICD11 Borreliosis Codes. Email — jennaluche@gmail.com

Footnotes

[1] Rachael Bleau’s website https://www.rachaelbleau.net/

[2] Clear Your Way to Freedom by Rachael Bleau MSC.D. Copyright 2014 by Balboa Press. Please note this book has a disclaimer, “the author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being”

[3] https://books.google.com/books?id=1sAAAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:vAGjiTCFQpAC&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiE68Cs-OHaAhXvmuAKHbCCC7oQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Kristen&f=false

[4] Great White Brotherhood - https://www.summitlighthouse.org/great-white-brotherhood/

[5] Disclaimer from the blog of Better Health Guy: “Nothing in this text is intended to serve as medical advice. All medical decisions should be made only with the guidance of your own personal medical authority. This information was taken as notes during the conference and may not represent the exact statements of the speakers. Errors and/or omissions may be present. If you have any corrections to the content listed below, please Contact Me. [Better Health Guy]”

[6] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/expert-tick-borne-disease-working-group-states-lyme-get-luche-thayer/

[7] see link http://drannafrost.com/post/159902366110/wiser-dumber-one-year-on

[8] references found on CDC website regarding Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) - www.cdc./lyme/postlds/index.html - Accessed April 30, 2018.

Marks CM, Nawn JE, Caplow JA. Antibiotic treatment for chronic Lyme disease-Say no to the DRESS. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Dec 1;176(12):1745-1746. “Perhaps the most important factor is the inadequate recognition of the functional somatic syndromes often mislabeled, and mistreated, as chronic Lyme. Functional somatic syndromes … are notoriously difficult to treat. Some patients respond to psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, … or antidepressants…”

Lantos PM, Shapiro ED, Auwaerter PG, Baker PJ, Halperin JJ, McSweegan E, Wormser GP. Unorthodox alternative therapies marketed to treat Lyme disease. Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Jun 15;60(12):1776-82. “Some patients with medically unexplained symptoms or alternative medical diagnoses suspect that they are chronically suffer from the tickborne infection Lyme disease. In many cases such individuals, regardless of whether they have evidence of the infection… references to patients with “Lyme disease” referred [to] individuals who have been diagnosed …”

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