Mind & Heart – 3: The Necessity of Being and the Healing of the Self

The Self in the Midst of Contingency

The prevailing sense of uncertainty and fragmentation in human existence stems from the deeply ingrained belief that the self is a contingent occurrence—an ephemeral construct emerging from material conditions, social influences, or fleeting experiences. Within this framework, identity appears fragile, defined by the shifting landscape of time, external validation, and biological determinism. The psychological distress that arises from this view is not incidental but follows necessarily from the assumption that the self lacks inherent necessity—that it could have never been and might one day cease to be.

Yet, this unfolding of uncertainty itself belongs to the appearing of truth. The very experience of existential anxiety, the fear of dissolution, and the search for a lasting foundation already signal the necessity of a deeper recognition. The self is not an isolated phenomenon within a chaotic flux but an appearing within the eternal structure of Being. What appears does so necessarily, and its presence is not subject to contingency.

The Unfolding of Recognition

The path toward recognizing the necessity of Being is not a matter of adopting a new belief or therapeutic framework, nor does it erase the contradictions that have shaped human experience. The very struggle with impermanence, with doubt, and with the question of identity is part of the necessary unfolding of thought. The search for stability in transient things—whether through relationships, achievements, or ideologies—expresses the deeper movement of this unveiling: the longing for what has always been true.

This movement is not linear, nor does it immediately dissolve suffering. The ingrained patterns of perceiving oneself as contingent do not vanish instantly, and the fear tied to loss and dissolution continues to manifest as part of the necessary confrontation with what has not yet appeared clearly. The unveiling of necessity follows its own inherent order, and within that order, the recognition of Being gradually emerges.

Healing as the Recognition of What Has Always Been

The suffering tied to the mistaken assumption of contingency does not require an external resolution but unfolds toward its own necessary appearing. The realization that the self is not an accident but an eternal necessity does not impose a new framework but allows what has always been true to come into view. This does not mean that suffering ceases in an instant or that the contradictions of existence simply vanish. Rather, it means that even within distress, loss, and uncertainty, there is the gradual unfolding of recognition—the movement toward seeing that nothing truly vanishes and that all that is, necessarily is.

Psychological frameworks that engage with human suffering can, in different ways, participate in this unfolding, though they remain conditioned by the assumptions from which they proceed. The unveiling of Being is not an alternative therapy or a prescriptive path to healing but the necessary recognition toward which all thought inevitably moves. The dissolution of existential anxiety does not lie in the rejection of past perspectives but in their necessary transformation—where suffering itself is revealed not as an error to be fixed, but as part of the inexorable appearing of what is already whole.

In this light, healing is not a process of altering what one is, but of recognizing what one has always been. The search for relief from contingency is already the movement of Being’s unveiling, in which the self is seen not as a transient occurrence, but as part of the eternal necessity of all that is.