What about Carl Jung's idea of the collective unconscious?

The idea has a true core and can even be taken further. Not only the experiences of human ancestors but the experiences of all life before us may have left traces within us.

Carl Jung held that every person carries a store of experience that they did not gather themselves. It comes from their ancestors and lives on in the unconscious. This is a reasonable idea. It can even be taken further than Jung took it.

Human beings did not appear all at once. The Holy Qur’an says that God created them in different stages and forms. Long before there were humans, there was life in many shapes. Each of these shapes went through experiences of danger, hunger and illness. It makes sense that these experiences were not lost but left their mark on the developing brain and body.

The immune system is one example. Many threats that living beings faced over long ages produced a response in the body. That response is, in a sense, stored. When it is needed, the body recalls it and begins to produce the right defences, without our noticing anything.

Seen this way, every person carries a memory that reaches far beyond their own ancestors. This does not make us smaller. It shows how carefully God built up creation step by step, and that nothing was wasted along this long road.