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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Voices from the Edge
EnlightenNext and What Is Enlightenment? Magazine Cambridge & Lenox, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and London, England With wide-ranging outreach to the general public, the Voices from the Edge network provides opportunities for public lectures, roundtable discussions, learning symposia, workshops, conferences, discussion forums, and advanced reading groups for the readers of What Is Enlightenment? Magazine
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Wesleyan University Colloquium for the Study of Science and Religion
Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut The Colloquium brings together a multidisciplinary group of members including university faculty, staff, and administrators from disciplines in the arts and humanities, social and natural sciences, and the office of the chaplains. Members actively seek to incorporate interested non-academic professionals from the surrounding community to join deliberations. This society seeks to
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Whitehead Research Group Augsburg
Chair of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics University of Augsburg Augsburg Founded in 2004, this society brings together philosophers, theologians, and scientists to consider the applications of process philosophy to “build a system of cosmology to encompass all kinds of human experiences, scientific, social and religious.” Since this is a relatively