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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The Commons Project
Office of Spiritual Life, DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana This initiative developed as an outgrowth of a faculty/staff book study group with membership including scientists, theologians, and informed laypersons. The project boasts open membership inviting faculty, staff, students, local public school teachers and professionals, and members of the local community. Project members engage in study, discussion,
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The DeVry Local Society Initiative in Technology, Society, and Culture: Reflections on Technological Change and its Implications for Humanity
Faculty Development Committee of DeVry University New Brunswick, New Jersey The issues raised in consideration of technology, society and culture are particularly relevant to the DeVry community since it specializes in technology education with a general education component. Faculty of DeVry University, North Brunswick, NJ, drawn from fields of philosophy and theology, information sciences, mathematics,
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The Healers Council
The Institute for Religion and Health at Texas Medical Center Houston, Texas Bringing together medical scientists, theologians, anthropologists, bioethicists, and healers from a broad range of traditions, this society pursues the development of an ongoing dialogue in the field of medical care that recognizes the importance of spiritual and religious perspectives to health and healing.