ABSTRACT
The neurological reinterpretation of attachment and develop mental theory and the discovery of mirror neurons demonstrate in scientific terms that maturation is an intersubjective process. Cultural psychology and ecopsychology are other bodies of theory which are concerned with human being in, and inseparable from, the environment. Cultural psychology has grown out of cognitive psychology, the movement that first brought consciousness and cognition back into the field of legitimate research. Divorcing itself from computationalism, with its guiding metaphor of mind as computer and its interest in information processing, cultural psychology focuses upon experiential human being and meaning-making. Like Buddhism, cultural psychology sees freedom not as a given but as a consequence of skills one has developed, which in turn depend upon beliefs and commitments which compose one's identity. The world that Buddhism has explored for so many centuries is one in which the power of mind in the construction of world has never been doubted.
