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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FOREST (Florida Organization on Religion, Environmental Science and Technology)
University of Florida, Religion Department Gainesville, Florida FOREST is an organization of interdisciplinary scholars in religion, botany, ecology, history of science, ecological anthropology, ethics, and political science, doctoral students in the Religion and Nature program, secondary school educators, and community members devoted to facilitating research, debate, and the dissemination of diverse perspectives at the intersection
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Foro de Diálogo Ciencia y Fe (Dialogue Forum on Science and Faith)
Sociedad Educativa Champagnat, A.C.Universidad Marista de San Luis Potosí Located in central México, San Luis Potosí has a long tradition of cultural activity and boasts more than 20 universities and technical institutes. Technology and science have only recently had an impact on education and business in this region and present new perspectives and challenges for
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Forum Boundary Questions
Akademie der Diozese Rottenburg-StuttgartStuttgart This forum, founded in February 2001, deals with the fundamental questions that arise when engaging in dialogue “from the boundary area of natural sciences and theology”. A network of scientists and academics involved in interdisciplinary research gather to exchange ideas and discuss the expanding landscape of topics that emerge. Such subjects