Some recent attempts at describing the unifying principle to the universe, the ground of all being

link-collections:-

http://amasci.com/weird/wspir.html spiritual science

http://amasci.com/weird/wpro.html weird research associations

http://www.roma1.infn.it/rog/group/frasca/b/parap.html parapsychology resources

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/ind3.html parapsychology articles & biographies

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/links.html parapsychology & indigenous knowledge

http://www.vonward.com/selectedlinks.html redincarnation and extraterrestrial civilizations

books:-

The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness by Ervin Laszlo

Science and the Akashic Field : An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin Laszlo

The Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami

The Living Energy Universe by Gary Schwartz & Linda Russek

catch-phrases:-

"monism of cosmic consciousness" (Jacob Sarfatti)

"super-implicate order" (Bohm & Hiley)

"pregeometry" (Wheeler)

"substratum" (Dirac)

"funda-MENTAL space" (Hamenoff)

researchers in the field of consciousness such as:

Cleve Backster,

Jacques Benveniste,

William Braud,

Bob Jahn,

Edgar Mitchell,

Fritz-Albert Popp,

Hal Puthoff,

Rupert Sheldrake,

Russell Targ,

Elisabeth Targ, and

Charles Tart