🌱 The Self
Avatar, Soul, and Attraction
A Reflection within Similarity Theory
By Simon Raphael
In this page you will have the answers to:
What the self is (avatar).
What lies behind (soul).
Why advanced souls may choose limitation (pilot analogy).
Why we should respect everybody.
How morality works (experience vs consequence).
How karma operates as attraction (droplets analogy).
🎭 The Avatar of the Self
When we speak of the self in this world, what we encounter is not the eternal essence but an avatar — a temporary vessel through which consciousness moves. This self is the mask, the role, the costume worn by the soul as it steps onto the stage of reality.
Today the avatar may be Simon, tomorrow Michael, another day a woman, a man, a cat, or a dog. The form shifts, but behind every role is the same traveller: the soul.
🌀 The Soul Behind the Mask
If the self is the mask, the soul is the actor.
It is the pilot moving between bodies, taking different vehicles according to its stage of growth and its desire for experience. Some avatars are chosen because they align with the soul’s current evolution. Others are chosen out of curiosity, humility, or the need to explore limits.
🚴♂️✈️ The Pilot and the Pushbike
Consider the analogy of a pilot who commands a jumbo jet. One day, this pilot decides to ride a pushbike. Yet, despite his mastery of the skies, his skill on the bicycle is clumsy. Children riding nearby mock him, laughing at his awkward movements.
In that moment, he feels embarrassment as a pushbike rider. The children cannot see that he is also a pilot — someone who will return to flying vast aircraft that those children may never even step inside.
So too with the soul. An advanced soul may choose a primitive body or a limited avatar, not because it must, but to gain the experience of limitation. It can feel small, awkward, and even laughed at, but beyond the temporary moment lies a far greater truth.
🤝 Respect for All Avatars
It is important to remember this when we meet others in our daily lives. A homeless person by the roadside, a colleague in a junior role, or anyone we might be tempted to dismiss or treat harshly — each is an avatar.
Behind that mask could reside a soul far greater, wiser, and stronger than our own. To judge only the avatar is to ignore the vast reality behind it. Respect for all beings is respect for the hidden greatness of the soul.
⚖️ Experience and Consequence
If the soul is eternal, it may live countless lives — returning to the physical world again and again. From this perspective, even destructive actions, such as killing, can be understood as experiences. For the soul, death is not final; it touches only the avatar.
Yet this does not mean such acts are without consequence. When we “play nasty” in this world, we forget that every other avatar also hides a soul — and the law of attraction ensures that we will meet the weight of our own choices. This is karma: not punishment from an authority, but the natural resonance of existence.
💧 Attraction as Karma
Across the world, we see attraction everywhere. In professions, in relationships, in physics, in nature. Like is drawn to like.
A small drop of water will be drawn to a larger drop of water. A small droplet of oil will be pulled by the surface tension of a larger droplet of oil. Yet a droplet of water will never merge with a droplet of oil. Attraction works only where there is similarity.
So too with the soul.
If you are good, you will be drawn to greater good.
If you are harmful, you will be drawn to greater harm.
This attraction is what creates the realities described as heaven and hell. If you live with goodness, you join with larger reservoirs of goodness. If you live with cruelty, you are drawn into deeper cruelty — both in this life and beyond it.
Just as the droplet merges into the greater pool, so does the soul merge into the resonance it has chosen.
📖 References
Raphael, S. (2025). Similarity Theory — Dimensions, Time, and Consciousness.
Raphael, S. (Pilot–Pushbike Reflection, Respect for All Avatars, and Law of Attraction Analogies).
🌏 Collective Responsibility in a Structured Universe
🧩 Born Into Structure
We enter a universe that is already pre-structured. From the moment of our creation, we are participants in a larger design — not random fragments, but purposeful parts of a vast body. Each of us carries a task that contributes to the balance of the greater cosmos.
🕊️ Freedom Within the Framework
Yet structure does not erase choice. We are free to align with the flow of creation or to resist it. Both possibilities exist. Evolution can carry us higher towards resonance with goodness, or downward into what we call “the bad.” But this downward path cannot last — it leads not to strength, but to oblivion.
🌱 Creation Requires Goodness
Creation itself never arises from evil. Evil may twist or weaponise what is already made, but the act of creating requires need, and need demands cooperation, resonance, and working together. Creation flows from goodness, because only goodness has the power to generate something new.
🔨 Destruction as Renewal
Destruction is not inherently evil. To create new things, the old must often be dismantled. Balanced destruction clears the ground for renewal, ensuring that creation continues. Evil appears only when destruction exists without purpose — when it diminishes without rebuilding.
⚖️ Our Shared Duty
Thus, our collective responsibility is twofold:
To collaborate in creation, resonating with goodness.
To ensure that even our acts of destruction prepare the ground for new growth.
This balance is the ethical rhythm of the universe. Through it, we share the role of serving the larger body — not as isolated selves, but as neurons within the cosmic mind.
References
Raphael, S. The Self in Similarity Theory (on resonance and attraction as the foundation of ethics).
Raphael, S. Collective Responsibility in a Structured Universe (on creation, destruction, and universal duty).
