Hit and Myth in the Modern Mind: Old Patterns in New Stories

A journey through myth, psyche, and prophecy, where old stories find new ways to tell themselves.The trail opens in old territory. A few ancient Greeks are already there, noting humanity’s curious habit of wandering into its own fate. Pride, blind spots, unseen forces—threads quietly woven long before anyone sees the pattern. The tragedians knew it. Philosophers named it. Humans kept walking into it anyway. Further down the road, a modern voice joins in. The reflections of Dr. James Hollis drift through the landscape, wondering where the gods went—and why something restless still stirs beneath ordinary life. Other guides appear along the way. Freud notices the psyche speaking sideways. Jung suggests the gods never really left—they are simply wearing new masks. The road widens. A falcon circles in the distance as William Butler Yeats watches the center strain to hold. The horizon shifts. Farther out still, riders from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian cross a vast desert where the land itself feels ancient, haunted, and quietly observant. A wandering route following the strange places where stories overlap and echo across centuries. Conovision: moving forward the same way meaning always has—one story at a time.Episode References:James Hollis' BooksCredits:Robert Smart: Music/Sound Design Camila Espinosa: Audio Engineer/Sound DesignMeg Griffiths : GGRP StudiosCaitlyn Bairstow: GGRP Studios Chapters:(00:00) - Introduction (01:23) - The Meaning of Tragedy (02:28) - The Greek Gods and Fate (05:12) - Hubris and the Tragic Flaw (08:11) - The Limits of Human Perception (09:08) - Loss, Mortality, and Meaning (10:03) - The Age of Anxiety (11:05) - Freud, Jung, and the Unconscious (12:56) - Where Did the Gods Go? (15:33) - The Modern Meaning Crisis (16:24) - The Culture of Sensation (18:19) - Beware the Ides of March (19:37) - Yeats: The Second Coming (22:07) - McCarthy: Blood Meridian (30:48) - Conclusion