Kolak's numerous articles, stories, essays, books, and other creative works bridge traditional philosophy with other areas of inquiry and expression, from neuroscience to quantum mechanics, from logic and mathematics to art, music, and literature.
Variations on Kolak's theme have been voiced periodically throughout the ages (the Upanishads, Averroes, Giordano Bruno, Schopenhauer, Josiah Royce); more recently, physicists such as Erwin Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, and Freeman Dyson have espoused it.
Kolak is the founder of the philosophical therapy known as cognitive dynamics, which has been used to create new paradigms and technologies for expanding human consciousness, increasing intelligence, and improving creativity.
As a theatrical director and composer he has won the coveted Helen Hayes Creativity Award for productions such as Sartre's No Exit at the Source Theater in Washington, D.C.
Among his film work is the teleplay Id-Entity, about multiple personality disorder as seen through the eyes of four patients, for which Kolak wrote, directed, and produced, and the score and soundtrack.
As president and co-founder of the G-4 Coalition in Washington, D.C., Kolak helped write a bill, sponsored by US Senator Ted Kennedy, allowing the children and retirees of the IMF and World Bank to become permanent U.S. residents.