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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Process, Person and Society: From Conflict to Interagency SophiaEuropa
Department of Philosophy and Communication Aarhus University Aarhus Members participating in the society are theologians, philosophers specializing in ontology, science, political philosophy, anthropology and evolutionary biology. The main purpose of the project is to explore the potential benefits of a ‘process view’ in the understanding of self and agentive domains and options from an individual
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Project Nouveau Regard-New Outlook Project
L’Abbaye de Wisques (Saint Paul de Wisques Abbey) and Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris (Interdisciplinary University of Paris) Paris Established in 1997, this program brings together scientists, artists, philosophers, theologians, and Benedictine nuns from the Abbey of Notre Dame, and Benedictine monks from Wisques Abbey to explore their converging and contrasting perspectives. This society is based
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Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of California Irvine Dana Point, California The Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum promotes scholarly and educational initiatives exploring the connection between patients’ mental health and religious, spiritual, philosophical, and moral convictions. Forum members include attending physicians, resident physicians, medical students, scholars and practitioners from related disciplines. Participants share the