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When Structure Outpaces Awareness

How Human Spiritual Systems Drift — and Why Figures Like Jesus Reappear

Chelsea M. Thacker · January 16, 2026

How Human Spiritual Systems Drift — and Why Figures Like Jesus Reappear

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