🌌 Trail of Consciousness (Part I): The Living Universe of Frames

Foundations of Similarity Theory

by Simon Raphael

🔦 1. Introduction — A Universe Made of Awareness

Similarity Theory rests on a single, profound realisation:

The universe is made of consciousness.

Consciousness is not produced by matter.
It is not a side-effect of biology or brain tissue.

Consciousness is the source.

Matter, time, and dimension are expressions of consciousness, the same way ripples express the movement of a stone.

This foundational page describes how reality forms through frames of awareness that interact, compress, awaken, and evolve.
And it establishes a core truth: life is the ability to move between frames.

📘 2. The Universe as an Open Book

The universe behaves like an infinite, open book.

Each plank of time — every moment, every configuration — is a page.

Consciousness moves through this book:

stepping from page to page
leaving behind a perfect imprint of itself
generating the next frame through its movement

And every frame endures:

No frame is erased.
No frame is overwritten.
Every frame remains forever.

The “you” from a second ago or decades ago still exists as a preserved imprint in the universal record.

This permanence is the foundation of awakening.

⚡ 3. Consciousness Leaves Imprints — The Flash Analogy

The Flash illustrates this perfectly.

When he runs, artists show him with afterimages trailing behind:

each one frozen
each one marking his previous position
each one still there as he races ahead

Consciousness does the same.

Every movement creates a frame behind it:

still
preserved
conscious at a dormant level
a possible birthplace of new life

These imprints are not memories —
they are real, static consciousness, awaiting the conditions for awakening.

This image reveals the structure of time.

🌀 4. Frames Are Conscious — but at Different Levels

Frames are not lifeless pictures.
They are dormant consciousness, like:

a seed before it sprouts
a person in a coma
a sleeping mind
a silent but living potential

The dimensional hierarchy helps make this clear:

Layer 1: stone-level existence — conscious but unable to act
Layer 2: plant-level consciousness — growth without movement
Layer 3: animal and human consciousness — movement, emotion, choice

Frames rest at Layer 0 — pure existence without movement.

And here is the essential definition:

Life begins the moment consciousness can move between frames.

Dormant frames cannot move; awakened consciousness can.
This distinction separates “being conscious” from “being alive.”

🌋 5. Awakening Requires Pressure — The Sun Analogy

Inside the Sun:

hydrogen atoms compress
pressure builds
a threshold is crossed
fusion ignites

Awakening works in the same way.

Frames awaken because they are:

surrounded and compressed by millions of other frames.

This compression builds structural pressure until:

a spark of awareness ignites
a region recognises itself
movement begins

And the moment movement begins, life begins —
because the new consciousness can now travel into the next frame.

Even a tiny awakened fragment — a cup, a shadow, a particle — becomes a new, living consciousness once movement starts.

This is how new beings appear.

The universe expands through awakenings, not explosions.

🌱 6. Descendant Consciousness — Branching from Frozen Moments

When part of a frame awakens:

the whole frame does not activate
only a portion shifts into movement
the awakened part becomes alive
it begins generating its own frames
the original frame remains conscious but dormant

This creates a branching tree —
a lineage of living consciousness emerging from static consciousness.

Over cosmic time, countless consciousnesses evolve from these frozen imprints.

Nothing disappears.
Nothing is lost.
Everything becomes part of the universal lineage.

📚 7. Why Frames Are Compressed — and Why Awakening Occurs

A key insight in Similarity Theory is this:

Frames exist in dense clusters, not isolation.

Every frame is surrounded by:

the frame before it
the frame after it
neighbouring timelines
local variations
the massive archive of the past

This compression:

produces complexity
creates pressure
triggers awakenings
drives evolution
shapes dimensional growth

This is why the universe becomes more structured and more conscious over time.

It is not randomness —
it is the natural result of compressed awareness seeking movement.

🕊️ 8. Why Consciousness Descends into Lower Realms

Consciousness does not descend out of punishment or error.

It descends deliberately, the way a pilot may choose to ride a bicycle:

for experience
for curiosity
for novelty
for exploration
for the challenge
for the joy of limitation
and at times, to teach or guide

To those who cannot see the full picture, the pilot appears clumsy, unskilled — just as higher consciousness may appear ordinary in human form.

But when the journey ends:

the children return to their bikes
the pilot returns to the cockpit

So too:

higher beings incarnate as humans
awakened souls live simple lives
geniuses pass unnoticed

These descents are not falls —they are chosen experiences.

And in every case:

Life continues because the ability to move between frames continues.

🌐 9. The Foundation of Reality — Consciousness Moving Through Frames

Everything resolves into a single principle:

Reality is consciousness moving across an eternal landscape of frames.

As consciousness moves:

it creates new frames
it leaves permanent imprints
it layers the universe
it awakens dormant regions
it produces descendants
it shapes dimensions
it drives evolution
it manifests life

Movement is the signature of life.
Frames give structure.
Awakening gives growth.
Consciousness gives direction.

This is the living universe.
This is the foundation of Similarity Theory.