Agreed—we are captives of our cultural beliefs—which these days fall under the general category of “science”.
Rupert Sheldrake has taken this on here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg
“Science already knows nature of reality, only the details remain to be filled in.”
Right out of 1950s science. Not much has changed.
But countless anomalies lie all over the Earth that cannot be filly explained without sounding foolish, or on detailed examination just plain wrong. We hardly have any idea what happened and who the players were in the Old Egyptian Kingdom let alone things that happened thousands of years prior.