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