The Institute for Strategic Research
The Institute for Strategic Research has been established by a couple of scientists, researchers and developers for 13 years ago. It is now working with about 300 scientists and is a member of numerous European and Hungarian organisations. 13 research units are working in the institute, which prepare 20-25 international, national and local strategies every year. Since 1991 we have been carrying out concentrated researches in order to successfully identify and describe the processes of the global world, the nature of the new capitalism and the features of the information society of the forthcoming 30 years. We have also focused on national and local aspects as well: we have prepared the national strategy of Hungary until
2020, formulated the essential elements and key points of a possible program of the knowledge based economy and society and articulated the requirements of the reform of the
Hungarian spatial and social structure.
Our leading topics are: information society, future cities, regional knowledgedeveloping, consciousness research, strategy for churches, progressive methods in education and alternative ways of dissemination of knowledge. The influence and coverage of the institute reaches beyond Hungary, as it participates in several international projects as well.
One of our 13 research units of the Institute is the Metatheory Group, which has been established one year ago. The group is engaged for the dialogue between fields operating with different means and methods in approaching fundamental questions of our world and life. 18 well-known academic, university scholars and independent researchers study the relevant questions of this topic. The group carries out research activity about the connections of science and religion in order to elaborate a joint theory of theories of the natural sciences, human sciences, philosophical sciences and world religions. The group organizes accessible forums for the dialogue between science and religion both in Hungary and in the region. This includes open debates, conferences, roundtables and searching for new opportunities of education. The group also exploits the potentials of the internet and has found its way to the public through the traditional and the online press-releases as well.
The Institute for Strategic Research has established the Civil University, which has been functioning since 1996. This open university aims to become an example for a new kind of educational institute of the 21st century. On the one hand it prepares its „students” for the life of the forthcoming information society, on the other hand it manages to reveal the new dimensions of the cognition, which we believe will be the central issues of the 21st century.
The method of the education follows not the traditional methods, as the range of the subjects and lectures are not ordinary either. Here are some titles from the past semesters: Knowledge
Society, Our World Concept on the Dawn of the 21st Century, Inner Ways, The Information
Society, The Consciousness, Bio-energy, Philosophy of the Ancient Far-East, The Quantummechanics and the Human Mind, The System of Religions, Planetary Consciousness,
Resurrection and Reincarnation in the Dialogue of the Christianity and the World Religions,
The Philosophy of Existence, Egypt the Cradle, The Birth of the Light, Christian Aspects of the Genetics in the 21st Century.

“Metatheory and Metaphilosophy”
(Published by the Institute for Strategic Research in April 2005)
How to be open for every theoretical constructions ever perceived, while quering or challenging our former point of view and all of our conceptual metaexplanations in the theoretical research?
Inspired by the personal or transcendent sense, why would it be impossible to reconsider and exceed the current paradigm and to be open to adopt every old and new theoretical perspectives?
How could we achieve, that the categories of meta-reality, meta-sense, meta-human and metatheory shall not be bound, mutilated, and cowed mentally and conceptually anymore?
How can we equally accept the transcendent and at the same time non-transcendent determination of existence?
Why would it be impossible to formulate the theses of a comprehensive metatheory in a book, which can be understood by anyone, willing to make efforts to think together?
In the forthcoming weeks the members of the Metatheory Group are going to finish their common work in creating a comprehensive and summarizing study regarding a new philosophical structure and holistic worldview, called metatheory. Although the book will contain 15 essays of different authors from different fields, its aim is to introduce and describe this unified theory, connecting the essays with each other in one single structure.
Metatheory means on the one hand all the relevant scientific, pre-scientific and post-scientific fundamental theories including the world religions. On the other hand it is a unified supratheory, the hypothesis of the common and complete system of the theories. It embraces the entirety of every part-knowledge and knowledge-system, thus it is an adjoint, unified new knowledge. Metatheory tries to provide frames for the researches, when attempting to create a holistic picture of the world. The methodology of the theory is based on five elements of the cognition: a) everyday, pre-scientific cognition, b) science and arts, c) cognition through application of artificial intelligence, d) God-experience – like prayer, meditation, transcendent suggestion, e) experience by faith and the common meta-cognition of the previous five cognitions, which are continuously controlling each other.
The ideas below must be well-known for the open-minded reader. The book focuses mainly on these topics, while revealing the grid connecting them:
New Science - Post-normal Science - New Metaphysics – Metaphilosophy - New Philosophy -
Post-modern Theory - Unified Theory - Science and Spirituality - New Paradigm - Holistic Theory
- Metatheory of Information – Quantumphysics and Psychology - New Consciousness Theory -
Theory of Knowledge-society - Universetheory - Metatheology - New Ontology - Lifetheory -
Quantumreality - Theory of the New Culture - New Philosophy of Existence
The authors of the book represent a very wide range of the scientific and scholar world. The common feature of their research activity is the way they approach ultimate questions and problems and certainly the intention to reveal the common system of all theories.

The Content
József Csorba
: Librarian-archivist, researcher on information science
Towards a big theory
Zoltán Csörgő
: Teacher, ethnographer, mental health expert, researcher on consciousness
The History of consciousness-research and the consciousness-theory
István Héjjas
: Physicist, researcher on quantum physics and consciousness
The quantum physical level of reality
István Kamarás
: Sociologist, researcher on religion history
The human and the human sciences
László M. Molnár
: Philosopher, researcher on the philosophy of space
Beyond the subjective view – the transcendent space-time
Ilma Szász
: Physician, religion-psychologist, researcher on comparative theology
The ultimate truth of the religions
István Szentesi
: Biologist, genetic, researcher on bioinformatics
Bioinformatics and bio-computers
Csaba Varga : Sociologist, philosopher, researcher on metatheory and meta-methodology
The chances of metatheory
István Dienes : Mechanical engineer, theoretical physicist, researcher on quantum physics and consciousness
The mind-holomatrix – The capstone of the suprametatheory
Gábor Koncz
: Sociologist, future researcher
Metaparadigm
Czene Zsolt : Spatial development expert, researcher on space theory
From the point to the infinity – Dimensions of the space theory
András László : Philosopher, journalist, translator/interpreter, musician, cultural change agent, management consultant, and researcher on Spirituality and Business – a New
Paradigm of/for Management in the 3 rd Millennium
Spiritual economy – from welfare to wellbeing
Gyöngyi Major
: Economist, Ph.D. student, researcher on the philosophy of the information society
Information society and a new theory of existence
Endre Kiss : Philosopher, researcher of globalisation
Philosophy and metatheory
Budaörs, HUNGARY, 12th January 2005