Rabbi Joel Bakst (Interview Archive)

Call it the psychology of the future, except the future is already here. Anyone who has started to see it can take these formulas and apply them like templates. Look through what you might call Adamic eyes, and the pieces begin to fit. The chaos hasn't vanished, but there's an order running beneath it. Kabbalah carries that order, and at bottom it is pure mathematics, a geometry describing how the entire world operates. That includes Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shamanism, all of it. Every one of them belongs to Adam, because how could they not? Adam has all these different parts, the way a body does. The cells in your brain are nothing like the cells in your foot or your liver. That difference is the hierarchy inside the hologram.

Erik: Hi, Rabbi Bakst. Our call dropped, but we're back. I think we were in the middle of something, and I want to pose a question about the reach of your work. You describe a trend you see in how human beings develop and in how the physical universe keeps unfolding, a trend moving toward unity. In your view, what does this information mean for the future of religion? Are the religions going to merge into one global faith, or will they stay as distinct as they are now?

Rabbi Bakst: In the higher dimensional Messianic Era to come, and every formulation says we stand right at the edge of it now, the word religion won't appear in the Messiah's dictionary. There will be one consciousness instead. Religion is a cramped term to begin with, and it tends to carry a split in it, a sorting of life into compartments. There's the religious part of me, then the rest of me, and the religion reaches into my personal and political life only to whatever degree it manages to. Let me ask it from a different angle. In the original higher dimensional Garden of Eden, was there a religion? No. There was a singularity. One Adamic higher dimensional form existed, and out of that form rays of light went out. Each ray is its own thing, the way the colors in a prism are. Even inside a single color, red or blue, you find countless shades. Human consciousness will carry that same multiplicity, in action and in experience. What matters most is that all those rays, all those hues, meet at a shared center, a common vortex. If you want a picture of where religion and where man are heading, use the torus, the doughnut-shaped form.