This series of thirteen books shows the evolution over time of both societies and human aberrations, caused in no small part by the direct control of three different groups of aliens. The premise is that people are spiritual beings that inhabit physical bodies and have minds. Further, traumas block memories of past lives as well as inhibiting recall of previous lives and dictate in some measures the person’s behavior in their current lifetime. The aliens aid in the forgetting process by latching onto the spiritual being whose current body has just died, electronically zapping them, scrambling and altering the memories in their mind, and then implanting commands to be obeyed in the next lifetime, such as You are no good,
You are worthless, and You are stupid. Thus the commands buried in these moments of pain and unconsciousness impact the person’s next lifetime; the person will believe utterly that they are no good or that they are completely worthless or that they are incredibly stupid. Through the thirteen novels, Elizabeth Stanton and her group discover what is actually happening on their world of Tarra. Namely, the aliens created Tarra as a dumping ground for all their own spiritual beings that they found objectionable in their societies - those who upset their societies: scientists, revolutionaries, artists, great thinkers, and of course criminals. Thus, these three different alien societies dumped these unwanted beings on Tarra, their penal colony, forcing the beings into physical bodies with enough traumas so that the beings could not leave the bodies (until it died), were convinced that they were nothing more than a physical body, and could not remember their previous lives. Stanton and her group reverse all of this over many hundreds of years, drive out the aliens, and develop a therapy to undo this horrific damage to the people, set against the long term evolution of the many societies on Tarra. This is the twelfth novel in the Elizabeth Stanton series. The mantis return to Tarra and find spiritual beings are out of their prison cells, their human bodies. Frantically, the mantis must take drastic means to get their millions of prisoners back into their cells. The mantis destroys the entire island of Dorota and kidnap Bethany and her friends, using their bodies to perfect the mantis’ genetic cure designed to keep spiritual beings securely inside their cells, their bodies. Bethany cleverly minimizes the mantis genetic mutations, but the plague is unleashed anyway. She and her group manage to prevent the entire world from being victimized by the plague. Next, she works hard to assist the many plague victims and then cleverly devises a cure for the plague.