In Entelechism a young asteroid miner and a group of university researchers discover that the world is much more like the one envisioned in cybernetically-enhanced Voudoun than they could have imagined – infested with non-human spirits bent on possession with nefarious intentions for a planned interstellar colony.
Earth is headed for inevitable environmental collapse. In response, corporate giant TransAmalgamated, driven by its ruthless CEO, Michel Girard, has been working for decades on an interstellar mission to colonize the earth-like planet Diaspora. The only problem is that Girard and others working on the project are possessed by bakas, Voudoun demons.
An unlikely hero emerges in the form of Martine Beauvais, a seventeen-year-old asteroid miner who was rescued by the People of the Crossroads in Haiti. As a result of a ritual when she was a young girl, Martine shares a dual consciousness with a loa, a Voudoun ancestor spirit, giving her the ability to sense the spirit world. She discovers Girard’s baka and is thrown together with anthropologist and psychonaut Chris Brooks and neurophysics researchers Car Beckett and Kim Vodanovic.
Car and Kim’s research into the physical seat of consciousness leads to the successful implementation of a new molecular storage and transportation technology. After becoming a test subject for the transportation system, Chris Brooks founds a new spiritual practice he calls Entelechism based on the technology. When Entelechism becomes instrumental in enabling the interstellar expedition to move forward, the group races to find a way to thwart the plans of TransAmalgamated and the baka infesting its leadership.