Review of 'Being Human' by Martin W. Balls

Originally published in 2009 ‘Being human – An entheological guide to God, evolution and the fractal energetic nature of reality’ is an attempt at explaining and guiding one through the fundamentals of reality. The author, Martin W. Ball, describes the text as being a treatise for the ‘radical non-dualism of the entheological paradigm.’

Ball’s underlying foundation, on the surface at least, is taken from the mathematical sciences. The two principle points being that firstly, the single substance of the universe is ‘energy’ and secondly that this energy is organized in fractals. God, he posits, is then essentially the total energetic being.

Unlike traditional pantheism however, which some of the more mystic scientists ebb toward, Ball take a more panentheistic conception. That is to say, God is not simply a totality but a self-aware being. Being ‘self-aware’ and in a constant state of flux, God is, according to Ball, also equal to evolution, the Now or, more succinctly, self-actualization. The universe then, is the actualization of God into physical being, which it must be noted, is only one degree of the infinite potentiality of energy...