@Symbols, I thought I was ready to answer the questions as to the when, and how of 'God consciousness', and the third question you've asked about convergence and divergence. But when I put myself to the task of explaining myself, I realized I had work to do. I had to develop the language for it practically from scratch or thereby.

But to get to the task let me start that humans became aware of God when they became aware of themselves (for this case awareness and consciousness are deemed as equal).

Self awareness or self consciousness came about gradually as Man developed politically, linguistically, and mentally. Even now Man developing along these lines, keeping up the pattern of an evolving God and Man.

The reasons of convergence are our uniformity as a species, divergence is due to the inherent energic possibilities around (entropy) and our capacity to symbolize them.

I'd like to refer you to Julian Jayne's 'The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind'. Here the writer argues successfully that consciousness is not only unnecessary for survival but isn't inherent in Man. Just like the creation story in Genesis affirms.

Again the definition you've given of Man using words like 'spirit', or 'soul' has the mark of presupposing their meaning and possible existence. But words are political creations.