Help me find a book to finish out the year. Needs to be inspiring, esoteric, and spark wonder at our existence/the universe/all the things we don’t understand

I just finished American Cosmic by DW Pasulka. I found it deep in a "what is the best rabbithole you've ever been down?" post on reddit; I was looking for something a little esoteric, but still very much based in reality. This book was great for me: it was a nonfiction investigation of the UFO phenomenon from the perspective of a professor of religious studies. The focus of the book wasn't on little green men or what UFOs actually *mean*, it was more about their cultural impact, the ways that sightings influence people's lives, and new readings of historical accounts that point to a long history of aerial phenomena.

The book discussed consciousness some, and that's a topic I'd like to read about, but I don't want anything too woo-woo, or on the contrary, too densely scientific.

Also interested in mysticism and its history.