People often react very negatively to the idea that we are double beings, that the human soul is binary in nature. It rarely occurs to them that this is just the reaction one would expect if the soul was bifurcated. To be dual, after all, is to be duplicitous and double-dealing. To have two parts to the self makes it possible for one hand not to know what the other is doing. It paves the way for violated integrity, unintentional falsehood, self-betrayal, and self-deception.

Plus, it just seems odd. Why do we have two souls?

Perhaps the answer is as simple as this : because that is the way everything is made, with two parts, two equal-but-opposite complimentary components. The ancient Egyptians certainly thought so, as did the Chinese. One has but to step out-doors for a moment to be reminded that the world, and everything in it, has a two-part, divided or binary form. Simply by looking at a tree, we are reminded that the root structure beneath the tree looks just like the branch structure above it. When we look at the form of that tree�s leaves, or for that matter the form of practically any living thing, we notice that its shape and body is symmetrical, having equal-but-opposite right and left sides.

Such symmetry seems a hard and fast rule of this world. We see it in the equal-but-opposite natures of the sexes, of day & night, of summer & winter. We see it in the positive & negative poles of electricity and magnetism. We see it in the dualities of life & inanimate matter, of plants & animals, and, of course, in the natural law that for every action there is an equal-but-opposite reaction.

We see it in the double-helix of the DNA molecule that splits down the middle during reproduction, the two halves becoming perfect complements to one another. Although equivalent, these copies are not identical, but equal opposites, just as a mold and a cast contain inverted forms of the same image.

Indeed, we see this duality in the very make up of the universe, composed as it is of matter & antimatter. Cosmologists speak of virtual particles constantly appearing and disappearing in the universe. According to quantum field theory, pairs of these virtual particles, one positive and one negative, appear together in the primordial vacuum, move apart, then come together again and annihilate each other.

And while we once thought that space and time were quite separate things, we have since realized that they are but two sides of the same strange coin. In the same way, we once thought that matter & energy were quite separate substances, until Einstein cleared up the issue with the famous E=MC2 equation. We even see the universe's duality in the nature of light itself, which somehow manages to be both particles & waves at the same time, two equal-but-opposite, seemingly mutually exclusive natures. And, as if to drive the point home to the modern age, the machine that has completely revolutionized the world in the last few decades, the computer, does nothing more complicated than distinguish day in and day out between ones & zeros.

We see the universe's immanent duality smiling out from behind science's struggle to incorporate all the laws of physics into a single equation. For more than half a century, our scientists have unsuccessfully tried to integrate and reconcile two seemingly equal-but-opposite theories; each, on its own, seems obviously and indisputably true, and yet the two seem utterly irreconcilable with one another. Quantum Theory addresses the laws that govern how things work on the scale of the extremely small. We know Quantum Theory is correct. Relativity Theory addresses the laws that govern how things work on the scale of the extremely large. We also know that Relativity Theory is correct. The "holy grail" of science today is the Grand Unification Theory, which, it is hoped, will finally reconcile and integrate these two together into a single complete picture that accurately describes the universe as a whole. The problem is, Relativity Theory simply does not seem to describe the same universe as Quantum Theory; no matter how our scientists twist and squirm to try to make these two perspectives interface, they seem to have nothing in common, as if each was describing an entirely separate and unrelated universe. And yet, impossibly, they are both here in the same one.

One of the newest and most interesting examples of the "binary creation" hypothesis is the theory that our own solar system is binary, that our sun has a twin of its own, and the two stars orbit one another something like once every 25000 years. The Binary Research Institute has compiled a great deal of evidence supporting this theory at their website.

From the perspective of the Binary Soul Doctrine, this would make perfect sense. We as individuals have two souls, our brains have two hemispheres, our species has two sexes, our magnets have two poles, our physics has two modes (matter & energy), our solar system has two suns, our religion has two Messiahs, and on and on and on.

Because our minds are divided or binary, everything we choose to look at seems to be divided or binary as well. The crack in the lens we use to see the world (our own minds) inescapably makes it look as if everything else is fractured and binary.