Subjective Science

The spirit and principles of science are mere affairs of method; there is nothing in them that need hinder science from dealing successfully with a world in which personal forces are the starting point of new effects. The only form of thing that we directly encounter, the only experience that we concretely have is our own personal life. The only completed category of our thinking, our professors of philosophy tell us, is the category of personality, every other category being one of the abstract elements of that. And this systematic denial on science’s part of personality as a condition of events, this rigorous belief that in its own essential and innermost nature our world is a strictly impersonal world, may, conceivably, as the whirligig of time goes round, prove to be the very defect that our descendants will be most surprised at in our boasted science, the omission that to their eyes will most tend to make it look perspectiveless and short. --William James

Here is a link to a wonderful academic journal article from some folks at Princeton about the nature of science and the position of subjective inquiry therein. This is an important piece of literature for the pantheist in that it is the beginning of any serious scientific inquiry into the possibility of universal consciousness. I would certainly be interested in the input of anyone who has experience in these matters. Of particular interest would be experimental results that indicate a moderate to high correlation between observer and subsequent experimental results.