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Homo created himself in his own image and likeness

The population of reality and the astral is overwhelmingly anthropomorphic.

This means that the beings of many worlds where form is possible are close in their structure to the human form. This is a universal form.

It turns out that the human form is used not only by beings similar to humans: gods, asuras, prets, creatures of hell – but even by those who, at first glance, do not look like a human at all. For example: dragons, animals, insects, fish, birds.

All beings have an image of their body in their consciousness. That is, any being, seeing the world, sees himself in this world. So this vision of oneself is anthropomorphic for all beings. That is, it seems to any creature that he is a human being.

A dog, for example, running on four legs, seems to be a human being. Just for speed, it is now, because of a slightly incomprehensible state of the body, it is more convenient for her to run on four legs. It's just faster at the moment. But when she is not in a hurry, she can stand on her hind legs completely freely, and stand and move like an ordinary person. She perceives the rest of the people as ordinary, equal people, as her friends, too. The rest of the dogs she perceives as dogs.

A dolphin, for example, swimming in water, also perceives himself as a person who is in the water only because he knows how to swim well, and he just likes this swimming. He perceives the rest of the surrounding dolphins as dolphins, just to whom he, supposedly a swimming person, has a good friendly attitude. He helps them whenever possible, because he knows how. He perceives people as his good friends. During a storm, he does not go ashore because he is afraid of the surf at the shore. A high wave near the shore can hit something, and there is a danger of drowning. Therefore, it is safer to wait out the storm at depth.

A fly, for example, taking off over a kitchen table, also perceives itself as a person. She thinks she has become very cool, and has learned to fly like an angel, if she only mentally wants to. To take off, the fly sends a small amount of mental power to the magical invisible cloak that develops behind her back. And this cloak lifts her up and carries her to where she needs to go. She perceives a person as a good friend. And sometimes, in a fit of tenderness, a fly approaches the face of a pleasant person and kisses him on the cheek.

The inner image of oneself as a person leads to the fact that in the course of Darwinian evolution, many animals acquire signs inherent only in humans, earlier than they need it from the point of view of lifestyle. For example, the hind and forelimbs are fins in fish and the five-fingered structure of the fin bones in fish.