I highly doubt things like memories would be transferred at all in any capacity.
Not specific memories, but your soul would still be effected by other lives. Logically, after you die, your parts don't just disappear, they merge into everything else, the atoms of your body don't simply vanish. So what happens to consciousness? Sure after death your ego may die, along with any conception of yourself, but your soul, the bridge of your mind to the divine ground of all being, or god dimension (5-me0 DMT) Lives striving for reunion with that ground, or enlightenment. So what you do in this life effects the ones required for you to attain that.
I'm not trying to claim an ultimate truth that you all need to adhere to, just trying to articulate my views better.
The scope of science is the scope of the actual facts that have been uncovered. More justified information means the scope increases. Random unbacked speculation doesn't do anything.
Facts are incredibly rare in science according to scientific terms. My beliefs are not random unbacked speculation as I've explained over and over. They come from my subjective experience, which is an argument we have pretty well established is unsuccessful due to such radically different views on what is credible evidence.
Symbols and archetypes are our (i.e. mankind's, collectively) own construct. I wouldn't concentrate too much on them, because they just act as a red herring if you do.
Don't be niave enough to think your above archetypes. The conscious human mind is a fragile thing only just strong enough to cover up the daunting subconscious and subconscious. Archetypes allow us to make sense of patterns to our existence and make sense of our experience.
Symbols are man made archetypes. When enough attention is paid by enough people in a driven way, symbols have enormous power. Most symbols, you are right, mislead one from an authentic spiritual path. But you can make your own symbols for yourself. It works the same way as compassion cultivating meditations. Sure while doing them, when I say to myself "may I be more understanding than judgmental, may I replace my fear with courage, my defensiveness with openness and acceptance..." I don't all of a sudden gain this cosmic super-power 'karma' which ensures me good luck or protection or anything. Thats not how the pattern humans have labeled karma works.
What it does is change my internal world, how my mind works. So by doing that daily, eventually by merging with the intellectualized concept to the point of its true substance, it begins to change me and therefore the energy, or if thats to hippy dippy of a word for you then 'vibes', that I'm projecting to the external universe which in turn changes my course in life. So with symbols, if you have the right ones, by moving past the symbol while using it as a means to a destination and not in and of itself, what you can accomplish with your mind is more remarkable than we can conceive or speculate.
I'd attribute that more to culture rather than science alone.
Thats why I keep saying scientific
community.
In short, we're not adapting much anymore, and just because we've evolved sentience doesn't mean we don't still need to do so. You think science is our greatest threat? No, we are our own enemy, and we can't adapt to that now. Could try genetic engineering within the next 100-200 years, assuming we haven't blown each other up by then, but that's a roll of the dice and could go either way.
Seriously? With the population expanding at the crazy rate it is, its drastically effecting our collective human consciousness. Humanity is one of the main archetypal concepts we function from and with. We are evolving in new ways, ways beyond escaping predators and figuring out how to keep ourselves warm.
The mind is the next frontier for mankind (though the taoists have it right in that its really the same inside v.s outside). The human brain is the most complex thing known to man kind. Psychology is an infantile science dealing with the utter wilderness of our minds. Take psychosis for example. We know utterly nothing about it. It disturbs us to think about it. They though are entirely convinced. Obviously they are existing on some very far off conscious plane, that we can't comprehend. Its just a testament to the vast unknown territory. There are other realms of the mind, more enlightened and powerful than humanity's current one.
No, no two formulations of that concept are the same; otherwise, there'd only be one religion in the history of mankind.
You'd be surprised at the vast amount of common ground between all the major world religions, even christainity and Islam. I think I've already said it, but The Perennial Philosophy by Huxley articulates this pretty well.
1) Perception skews what we think reality is way more than we give it credit for.
2) Emotions, memories, etc. are just aspects of the human mind, and aren't representative of your fundamental self, the "soul", which I see as separate from the "mind", although they do combine with each other, perhaps synergistically.
3) Identity isn't actually defined by what something is, but by what something is not.
To your first point; thats true, however intuition is an entirely different matter. To your second, thats exactly what I'm talking about with your personal psyche or soul, that nexus of the conscious mind to the eternal 'over-soul'. And no emotions and thoughts aren't coming from that divine ground or over soul, but from the more illusory and individualized states of our being, which we are all advertently or inadvertently struggling to overcome, though we mostly just fuck up. Identity is action which in your argument would be 'is', not 'is not'. I can't see any other possible definition, so elaborate please.
It isn't logical to believe nothing is possible, but to believe anything is possible? Look, I can't just believe I can fly and then have a pair of wings sprout out of my ass.
I meant that hyperbolically. Obviously I can't meditate on being able to fly and then just be able to because 'my chakras are stronger than yours' or some shit. I was trying to emphasize the untapped power of the human mind. Our technology is progressing at such an alarming rate, soon what is now the internet, or video games will turn into virtual reality. Some people will abandon this world completely. People will have to decide which consciousness they want to live in to a much greater extent then we're familiar with. Basically other worlds and dimensions will be in store for our kind definitely not in our lifetimes, but probably much sooner than we think.
Sure its more speculation, but go ahead and tell me why that wont ultimately happen as we develop technology that to us now is tantamount to the CERN partical collider to a caveman, considering the exponential rate of advancement.
Though you probablt experience more wide range of effects than me. 
