I feel you
These days I am reading a book called The Fabric of the Cosmos and somehow it has managed to get under my skin. Deep enough to penetrate my art themes.
Apart from the fact that it provides people without a physics background a pretty good understanding of the theories and their development throughout the years, it also gives a philosophical dimension to the research of what the world is made of.
Reading this book I begin to develop my own theories behind the mechanics of the collective unconcious that C. Jung referred to, the nature of having a certain "sense" about what is to come, things that pure neurosciense has from time to time aknowledged but always put under the carpet.
Religions, lovers of the metaphysical and other alchemists of this world have often tried to explain the connective matter between us.