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The Metapattern Institute is an independent digital humanities research initiative based in Montreal, operating at the intersection of health informatics and integral human development.

Erik Haines is an independent researcher based in Montreal whose work bridges digital humanities, health informatics, and philosophical traditions spanning integral humanism, Canadian speculative philosophy, and contextual behavioral science. He holds a B.A. from Concordia University in Applied Human Sciences and Religious Studies, and brings over fifteen years of professional experience in IT systems, knowledge management, and financial services.

In 2022, Haines founded the Metapattern Institute and launched the Integral Facticity Podcast, producing 21 episodes of scholarly conversation across critical theory, integral philosophy, political theology, and Canadian intellectual history.

Digital Humanities [+] Integral Humanism:

The Institute applies digital humanities methodologies to real-world contexts, treating lived experience as primary research data. The work draws on an updated integral humanism, the contemplative science movement, and contextual behavioral science to investigate how digital tools and environments mediate human meaning-making, cultural transmission, and development.

The research prioritizes human persons over technocratic systems — examining how structures of knowledge, care, and governance serve or fail the complex reality of human life.

Health Informatics [+] Integral Human Development:

The Institute examines the intersection of information systems, clinical data, and integral well-being. Drawing on the capability approach, the research develops frameworks that ensure health data systems expand individual functioning's rather than reducing persons to metrics. Auto-ethnographic field methods produce longitudinal data on how psychological flexibility operates across biological, relational, and institutional dimensions. 

Zero Solicitation: 

No donations, subscriptions, or financial contributions are solicited or accepted.

Editorial Independence: 

The research operates independently of commercial platforms, academic institutions, and funding bodies.

Open Access: 

All frameworks and findings are released into the knowledge commons as shared resources.