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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Jnanam Discussion Group
Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth Pune Named after the Sanskrit word for wisdom, this pre-existing group consists of researchers and students interested in exploring dialogue and reaching the community at large through organized twice-monthly meetings, seminars and conferences. A website with email discussion groups, book publication, a membership journal, and CD ROM presentations further outreach efforts. The group
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Kansas City Religion and Science Dialogue Project
Second Presbyterian Church Kansas City, Missouri This Local Society draws its participants from among the members and staff of the Second Presbyterian Church, which is the group’s host institution, as well as from the faculty, staff, and students of Rockhurst University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Saint Paul School of Theology, and the Linda Hall
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Life Sciences and Religion Community Forum of Central Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia This society provides a public forum for citizens to dialogue openly, critically and creatively about issues in science and religion. Bringing together individuals with diverse religious and scientific perspectives, the Community Forum promotes cooperative learning, mutual understanding, and the development of informed positions on such things as stem cell research,