Great stuff! The only quibble I found was in his identifying consciousness with what the Greeks famously called ‘the thing in the head’. Think of that more as a tuner, to enable an incarnated soul to keep in contact with its real source of consciousness: Big Mind. I love this farmer’s skit on Dante’s ‘Commedia’ at the end. Altogether now: “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita…” 
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Haven’t read it yet but your comment @RhisiartGwilym makes for an interesting coincidence because Darren Allen’s Ad Radicem was published yesterday (5 June) and consciousness is a theme of the first few pages. And I’m sure will crop up further on.
He likens consciousness to a tool, and then draws upon Illich to argue that like most tools it stops being useful (convivial is Illich’s phrase). To the extent, argues Allen:
Consciousness is filtered out at school and at work; spontaneity, aliveness and uniqueness are either unrewarded or actively punished. Try being spontaneous, alive and completely unlike everyone else here, in the world. See what happens to you.
A sweeping statement but not one I’d seriously dispute.