This line of thought fascinates me and always has. Yogananda always said the universe is like an ocean of consciousness and each individual is akin to a wave that crests temporarily. I always felt that was a beautifully elegant way to explain it. Eric Wienstein seems to think there's a whole branch of physics that have been in development since the late 1940's that can explain prove all of this mathematically. He, and many others, have said modern mainstream physics seem to be "stuck" in some perpetual evolutionary loop because of false theories and mathematical errors.