what is the consciousness control?

i'm considering that ability to control consciousness is achieved via different set of *tools*: religion, meditation, even simple astrological predictions. i observed some of my friends and also i've read their daily horoscopes, by comparing those observations i've realized that it does not matter what horoscope says, what's matter that it gives you some perceptual adjustment that supposely influence behavior...

[Active] Media Disease
- Friends & Freaks (Wonderful You and Me)

The Dead Russian Composer Personality Test [rotten link] and a [good one]

here is a result (as of 11/16/2005)

If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Sergei Prokofyev. I was born in the late 19th century and was a child prodigy, composing at a very young age. I kept this talent up, earning myself quite a name and fully exploiting the bragging rights. I was disliked by Stalin, however, and I died the same day he did. My most famous work is "Peter and the Wolf." Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test