Makes sense. How else would humanity eventually come up with the question for the answer 42?

Too vague to be meaningful.

Some believe Remote Viewing taps into "collective consciousness". I'm skeptical.

Possibly inherited memory or reactions

You describe what I usually think of as “culture” — a resilient (for good or ill) vehicle for worldviews, attitudes, unwritten social conventions plus all you mention, and more. Although I was born, brought up and educated in the United States, my family went there in the 1940s after having barely survived Naziism, and the differences to the Eastern European/Central Asian ancestral culture of home remain to this day, giving me alternative perspectives and emotions that are sometimes disconcerting, but often useful.

Meme organism as coined and defined by illogical atheist and BRILLIANT biologist Richard Dawkins.

It goes without saying that we absorb cultural aspects of existence that are unrelated to education or religion. the absorption varies from nation to nation. people have to manage the dichotomy between what they live and what they are told by parents, teachers or priests. an unstressful life depends on knowinf the difference and adjusting to it.