Why should we study consciousness?

Your power as a human being lies with your consciousness. It is the seat of your free will, your ability to choose. If you can improve your ability to use your consciousness, you can radically change your experience of life for the better. In fact, I would say that developing your consciousness will do you far more good in the long run than any other skills you might develop.

How you use your consciousness will largely determine how you experience reality, more so than any external events which happen to you. For example, if you perceive your existence as painful in some way (overly difficult, depressing, boring, frustrating, etc), then you can attempt to remedy this problem in two ways. You can work on trying to change external reality (make more money, switch jobs, lose weight, find a mate, hang yourself, etc). Or you can develop your consciousness to the point where you