"This we know: All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of Earth.  Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."             
     Chief Seattle, 1786--1866

"A human being is part of a whole we call the universe—a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and our feelings as something separate from the rest...a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and our affection to those nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of Nature in its beauty."
     Albert Eistein, 1954

Premises: 

• While members of an alien race, our former incarnations lost their sense of connection with Nature, which allowed us to believe ourselves exempt from cause and effect.
• When our eco-denial endangered our planet,¹ our species banished us to Earth.
• Ongoing alien visitation serves a dual purpose: 1) to use our eco-suicide as a graphic lesson to our interstellar cousins regarding the horrors of denial, and 2) if the aliens can cure our Taint—our ability to rationalize unwanted facts to appease our egos or convenience_2,3—they'll enslave us as their humanoid herd of replacement bodies.

Thematic Firsts:

1.        ...the use of metaphysics to ensnare the immediate fate of a protagonist with the lives and threads of other characters (through quantum entanglement), providing the protagonist with obtuse information and the means to reach a seemingly impossible goal.

2.        ...the use of fiction to cast entanglement as the mechanism behind the Law of Attraction, creative visualization, deja vu, precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, etc.

3.        ...the use of plot and premise to suggest Einstein’s “optical delusion of consciousness” lies at the root of Man's ability to deny the ecological consequences of its actions and the critical need to severe its dependency on fossil fuels.