⚖️ Ethics

A Page in Similarity Theory
By Simon Raphael

⚖️ The Physics of Morality

In Similarity Theory, ethics is not commanded by gods but emerges from the structure of consciousness itself.
Good and evil are not decrees — they are directions of resonance. Every action, thought, and intention either strengthens or fractures the pattern of coherence that links all beings.

In this view, virtue is alignment, vice is dissonance, and what religions once called heaven and hell are simply the natural destinations of resonance.
A soul drawn toward harmony ascends into unity; one shaped by cruelty or greed descends into isolation.
There is no punishment, only pattern — no judgement, only reflection.

Ethics, then, is the physics of consciousness: the ongoing effort to keep oneself in tune with the greater field of existence.

🌌 Consciousness and Transformation

Similarity Theory is not a religion, yet it provides a clear moral framework. By observing how consciousness shapes the universe, we uncover guidance for living with integrity and respect — for ourselves, for others, and for all forms of awareness.

In this view, there is no true death. What humans call death is the dissolution of the physical body, but not of consciousness. Consciousness persists, flowing into new frames of existence, inhabiting vehicles of many kinds. Some forms are highly capable, while others appear limited.

Just as a skilled pilot of a jumbo jet may choose to ride a pushbike — and even be mocked by children more adept at it — so too may an advanced consciousness choose a humble form of embodiment.

The lesson is clear: never belittle another being based on appearance, circumstance, or limitation. You cannot know who or what resides within them. The homeless person on the street, the child, the stranger — each may hold a consciousness more advanced than your own. The captain mocked on land may later command the very ship you board.

🌍 The Law of Attraction in Ethics

Similarity always draws like to like, and this law is woven through the universe:

• In gravity, where planets pull one another.

• In liquids, where surface tension draws drops of water together.

• In chemistry, where atoms bond by shared properties.

• In life, where people and animals are drawn to their kind.

This law also governs the spiritual realm. When your consciousness leaves the body, it is drawn toward that which reflects its essence:

🌊 A good life is drawn to greater goodness, like a small drop of water merging with a larger one.
🛢️ A malicious or selfish life is drawn to greater harm, like oil joining oil.

A drop of water cannot merge into oil — it will be repelled. In the same way, your actions here shape your resonance beyond. This is the true meaning of heaven and hell: not places of reward or punishment, but the natural consequence of attraction.

If your life is grounded in empathy, generosity, and kindness, you will be drawn into greater fields of goodness — resonances more powerful and luminous than your own. If your life is shaped by malice, greed, or narcissism, you will be drawn into greater fields of the same — resonances darker and more destructive than your own.

This is not judgement from outside; it is resonance. What you are, you attract. If you choose to change here, you shift your future resonance. In life, you have the option to redirect yourself toward goodness, and in doing so you alter the dimension of consciousness you will later inhabit. Whether such choice exists beyond this life is uncertain, but here and now the opportunity is clear.

🔄 Reciprocity and Persistence in Goodness

Ethics is not only about what follows after death; it is also about resonance in this life. Goodness attracts goodness. Those who steal and exploit tend to gather together, just as those who help and uplift are drawn into each other’s circles.

You may live in an unjust society and feel that your good deeds go unnoticed. If your soul is fragile, you may despair at the lack of reward. Yet Similarity Theory teaches persistence: goodness is never wasted. Even when unseen, it shapes the resonance of your being.

In time, your circle will shift. Acts of kindness align you with others of kindness; destructive acts align you with others of destruction. This is not imposed morality, but the natural law of resonance. A strong soul continues doing good regardless of the injustice around it, knowing that resonance itself is the true reward.

🛡 Responsibility of Higher Consciousness

As consciousness evolves, its power grows. With greater capacity comes greater duty. A being of advanced awareness who inhabits a humble form must act with wisdom.

When faced with ignorance, mockery, or cruelty, the higher soul recognises that most do not know what they are doing. To retaliate blindly is to descend into the same resonance.

Yet advanced consciousness also discerns when responsibility requires action. Ethics does not mean allowing all harm to persist; it means responding with proportion, wisdom, and restraint. To carry greater power is to carry the obligation to use it carefully, for creation rather than destruction.

🌱 Necessity, Compassion, and Balance

Consciousness inhabits all things — animals, plants, air, and even the chair beneath you. To say “do not eat beef because it has a soul” misses the deeper truth: grass also has a soul, and the air you breathe is alive with awareness.

Life requires consumption. The key is not denial but balance. Ethics in Similarity Theory therefore calls us to minimise unnecessary harm. Eat, breathe, build, and live — but do so with respect.

• When you kill pests, do so out of necessity for health, not cruelty.

• When you eat, do not waste.

• When you destroy, create in turn.

Ethics is lived through balance: recognising the necessity of consumption while honouring the consciousness present in all things.

🐊 A Mirror to the Afterlife

Among all beings, consciousness learns through contrast. The crocodile lives in a world of mud, hunger, and instinct. Its actions may seem brutal, yet they are pure within their simplicity. It kills not out of hatred but out of need; it tears flesh, yet it knows no cruelty. The crocodile’s consciousness is primitive, honest, unconflicted — it exists within the natural rhythm of necessity. There is no moral distortion in its hunger, only the movement of survival.

Humanity, however, has crossed into another realm — the realm of moral awareness. We are no longer bound solely by instinct; we have the power to choose. And within that freedom lies both grace and peril. For when consciousness becomes self-aware but remains unevolved, it can turn its intelligence inward. It invents deceit, domination, and deliberate harm. It tortures not from need, but from will. This is the birth of true evil — not the violence of nature, but the corruption of consciousness.

Yet such corruption cannot endure forever. Cruelty exists only in shadow, and shadow cannot survive where light is absolute. When consciousness leaves the physical plane, it enters the field of resonance — the higher realm that reveals, without filter, the true pattern of one’s vibration. There is no divine judge pointing a finger, no external punishment or reward. The universe simply mirrors back the energy that has been cultivated.

Those who have lived with kindness, compassion, and humility find themselves drawn into fields of harmony that magnify those same qualities. Those who have lived by deceit, greed, or cruelty encounter a reflection of their own inner state — a dimension dense with their own distortion. What religion calls hell is not a furnace built by God, but the resonance of a dissonant soul facing its unhealed echoes.

In the crocodile world, there is no moral corruption, because a crocodile cannot choose between good and evil. It kills because it must eat. It does not hate or take pleasure in suffering. Its life is instinctive, and instinct is pure within its purpose. There can be no moral distortion where there is no moral understanding.

Human beings have evolved beyond instinct. We can reflect, decide, and understand the effects of our actions. This awareness is what gives birth to morality — it is the moment when consciousness begins to judge itself. Once we know what kindness and cruelty are, we carry the responsibility to choose between them.

In the higher realms of existence, morality changes form. There are no laws or judges there — only resonance. Every soul is drawn to the level that matches its inner truth. A compassionate soul will rise to harmony, while a cruel one will fall into its own reflection. In those realms, nothing can be hidden. What you are becomes the world you enter. Cruelty cannot exist there any more than darkness can survive under bright sunlight, because in the light of full awareness, only truth remains.

This is why those who live in love have nothing to fear beyond death. The afterlife is not a foreign kingdom; it is a mirror made of light. What you have cultivated within — every thought, every act of care or indifference — becomes the environment you awaken to. Death does not change us; it reveals us. The universe does not punish; it clarifies.

So live as though the air around you is already transparent. Act as though every thought is already known. Because one day it will be — and what is seen will not condemn you, it will simply be you. And if love is what fills your being, then love is the realm you shall enter, because like attracts like, and goodness draws itself home.

✨ Conclusion

Ethics, in Similarity Theory, is not imposed from outside but arises naturally from the law of resonance. What you are, you draw toward you. What you create, you become. To live well is to align with greater goodness — not only in this life but in the dimensions that follow.

📌 References

• Goff, P. (2019). Galileo’s Error — for panpsychism grounding.

• Barbour, J. (1999). The End of Time — for time and persistence.

• Raphael, S. (2025). Similarity Theory.