This is a topic dear to my heart since my teens. After i was done with organized religion personally (tho i respect others' right to find their own paths) i still felt there was something more than just material, biological life. For me consciousness became the key. I came to feel there is a Universal Consciousness that we are all connected to and that connects us to each other.
For those who think science and spirituality are not mutually exclusive i have 2 book recommendations. Both were bought long ago (at 2nd hand sales of some kind) but just getting around to reading this fall. My 'to read' pile would be at least as tall as me (5'3") if i stacked vertically. Both these books touch on concepts i've been embracing for some time now.
Also suspect some synchronicity involved. There were things i needed to experience (meditation and many synchronous events involved) and read to lay ground work for my getting the most out of them. The first is "The G.O.D. Experiments" by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD (with Wm. Simon). The key thing is the way he represents the word god in the title: It stands for Guiding, Organizing, Designing 'something' (Entity? Principle? System?).
Schwartz stops short of calling it a 'field', but the book added to my conviction of Universal Consciousness deserving that designation at least as much as gravitation, magnetic and electro-magnetic fields do. Once one accepts the concept most everything usually defined as paranormal/supernatural becomes explainable as natural.
When i finished it, my thoughts about consciousness as a field that influences the material world becoming more firm, i was craving more input. Looking at my shelf of related books two stood out to me one was about Taoism, Psychotherapy and Synchronicity. A slender volume, interesting but added no new info, perspectives or insights so not recommending it tho it made strong case for syncronicity as a force in our lives.
The other book that i am recommending? "The Field" by Lynne McTaggart. About a quarter thru as it is one of those books i need breaks to process new info, to examine how it impacts my existing thoughts on topic. The 'Zero Point Field' is particularly fascinating not just its existence, but that it is so pervasive that for nearly a century most scientists didn't include the math for it in their calculations. Guess what? Now that some are--some things at quantum level are making more sense, not so anomalous.
The Field was published in UK in 2001, USA IN 2002. Living in a University town at the time made for a much broader range of books at yard/garage sales and i likely got it a year or two after publication. At the time was still working and coming to terms with physical issues including eye disease that greatly reduced my near lifelong gluttonous consumption rate of books slow to bare subsistence level. What are the odds that some 2 decades later it would be exactly what i need to be reading now?
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