"I wouldn't think robot parrots would have the slightest clue what the hell I'm talking about!"

Actually, I do and, to a point, I agree with you. This is something I've been studying for over 40 years - from the neol;itic maind and the early philosophers, through Jung's archetypes to Sheldrake's morphic resonance and the thinking on the nature and origins of consciousness by that superb modern philosopher, David Chalmers, in his book The Conscious Mind. I firmly believe that spirituality, the nature of the 'soul' and even memory and experience are linked to consciousness, including both collective consciousness and the collective unconscious. Once, if ever, the nature, origins and development of cosnciousness are understood, then the nature of spirituality will also be revealed.