The Metanexus Network began as a global constellation of interdisciplinary communities exploring foundational questions at the intersection of science and spirituality. Growing out of the Local Societies Initiative and later the Metanexus Global Network Initiative, these groups brought together scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars to engage questions of meaning, personhood, consciousness, and human purpose beyond the limits of any single discipline.
The original Network focused on two core commitments: dialogue between scientific and spiritual traditions, and transdisciplinary inquiry into the assumptions shaping human understanding. These communities served as spaces for rigorous conversation, intellectual experimentation, and resistance to fragmentation driven by excessive specialization.
Today, Metanexus carries this legacy forward while expanding its scope. As cultural, technological, and existential pressures reshape what it means to be human, the Network is evolving into a broader ecology of communities exploring new ways of being human. Building on its foundational roots, the renewed Network emphasizes lived inquiry, experimentation, and creative engagement with emerging forms of knowledge, practice, and community.
The Metanexus Network is no longer only a site of dialogue, but a space for shared exploration—where inherited questions meet present realities, and new possibilities are allowed to take shape.
Metanexus Groups
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Centro de Estudios en Ciencia y Religion (CECIR)
Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) Founded in 2000, CECIR networks with area universities, theological schools, seminaries and interested scholars throughout the city of Puebla and surrounding area. The society explores of a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects in the science-faith arena including examinations of Mayan and Aztec Cosmology, philosophy, quantum
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CEU Interdepartmental Forum on Religion
Central European University Budapest Born of a desire to address the lack of a forum for bringing together intersecting themes of religion and scientific understanding and addressing concerns recurrent in research and teaching experiences, the Interdepartmental Forum was founded to foster discussion of the “overt or covert religious, theological and spiritual implications” of the work
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Chance and Necessity (NChance) SophiaEuropa
Theologische Fakultät Paderborn Paderborn Concerned with connecting physics-mathematics with philosophy and theology, this group brings together scholars in these fields from universities of Frankfurt, Utrecht, Paderborn and Münster to consider metaphysical aspects of the concepts of causality, completeness, contingency, and final causes from the perspectives of respective disciplinary points of view. Members will evaluate Kant’s