Does this explain how people can have many arcane beliefs like “All bad things are caused by the devil” even without having had a religious upbringing in the current life? Are they corded from the akashic records of other lifetimes?

Here you are breaking new ground as well in fully appreciating the dynamics and origins of the myriad negative beliefs people will be harboring, and can be tested, and will demonstrate readily their existence with simple probing, especially during a theta state of consciousness, as with DNA ThetaHealing belief work, but there are also many examples from ordinary everyday experiences. The widely touted systemic racism in American culture has not only deep cultural and historical roots, but a deep karmic experience base in the akashic records of everyone present during those times, and the traumas lived through will radiate cords to future times, including the present incarnation. So someone who was a racist back in the 1800s, in a past life, may well find themselves suddenly thinking racist thoughts during a moment of reverie and contemplation. Or, when in a stressful situation, that might well trigger the subconscious to connect to a similar time of stress depicted in cordings coming from a past lifetime that has a parallel. These kinds of resonances of emotion will have an influence, like it or not, because people will be influenced to sing the same tune, so to speak, because of old beliefs as well as old feelings that resonate with something in the current life that triggers an inner awareness of a karmic dilemma needing attention. So this is a routine and robust mechanism that provides a strong influence and direct inheritance of the cultural karmic legacy of ongoing affairs. They do, in effect, get carved in stone, so to speak, at least within the akashic records, so their influence will be timeless unless rebalanced and healed. So this is the mechanism for the cultural heritage of nations perpetuating folly again and again, as in being a repeat offender, as a kind of predatory conquering force wanting to subjugate neighboring territories or, vice versa, being a perennial victim subjugated again and again by a neighboring tyrant and seemingly unable to overcome the suppression and break free. The deep karmic patterns are deeply belief-based and, because beliefs rule by determining feelings, thoughts, and actions, that cultural heritage will be alive and well in descendants. Not all similar behavior is learned by the young patterning after their parents and caregivers and then the broader society and its morays, much of it is ingrained through this karmic imperative. The past misdeeds of yesteryear will haunt people returning in a new incarnation. So what impact it has, and whether they are more enlightened in ways enabling them to overcome negative influences, will determine whether things get better or worse.