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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Quest for Modern World Views
Chair of Philosophy, Ufa State Institute of Service Ufa This growing group of philosophers, researchers, scholars and students from various disciplines, as well as interested community members, formed in Ufa in 1995. In addition to students and scholars, members of the union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, the Spiritual Board of Moslems, the Russian Orthodox Church and
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Recognize the Wisdom Project
Vem Radio StationVem Foundation Gandaszar Theological Center Yerevan With several core groups of scientists and clergy, this project enhances a regular radio program exploring a broad variety of issues in science-theology including Christian, Muslim and Buddhist perspectives, physics and cosmology; economics and spirituality; and the impact of technological development on religious perceptions. Hosting recognized scientists
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Religion and Economics Dialogue Group
University of New South Wales/Australian Defense Force Academy The Australian National University St. Marks CollegeCanberra This society’s program based on this “comparatively underdeveloped dialogue”, and means to extend the religion and science conversation to include economics by encouraging spiritual reflection in relation to economics and establishing a network of scholars, churches, and interested members of