Ontology 101
An AI-powered podcast where artificial hosts dive deep into the works of J. Daniel Alejos, unpacking his foundational text Tending the Garden and related writings that explore the ontological nature of reality — how being, structure, and coherence function at every level of existence.
Episodes
30 episodes
Genesis 15 - The Covenant Cut
Genesis 15 takes us into the heart of divine promise. Abram’s doubt meets God’s self-binding oath—an ontological act where God places the weight of the covenant on Himself. We explore the symbolic darkness, the meaning of righteousness by faith...
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28:00
Genesis 14 - The Priest-King
Genesis 14 weaves war, rescue, blessing, and mystery. Melchizedek enters the story as priest-king, revealing a higher moral order that precedes Israel. We examine how Abram’s victory resists exploitation, how blessing legitimizes alignment, and...
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23:20
Genesis 13 - Strife and Space
In Genesis 13, Abram and Lot reveal two moral postures: one generous and aligned, one driven by sight and self-interest. We explore how peace arises from trust, how land becomes symbolic space, and how God expands promise in response to Abram’s...
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21:26
Episode 12 - The Call
Genesis 12 begins the story of Abraham and the emergence of a people shaped by divine calling. We examine how blessing is tied to obedience, how pilgrimage forms the soul, and how God’s promise reframes identity and direction. Abram’s journey b...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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31:12
Genesis 11 — Babel’s Collapse
Genesis 11 presents Babel as a human attempt to ascend without alignment—to simulate sacredness through architecture and collective ambition. We explore how pride organizes systems, how language functions as moral boundary, and why God’s confus...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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29:06
Genesis 10 - The Nations
Genesis 10 maps the dispersion of nations—a structural genealogy of culture, language, and geography. We explore how identity cascades outward from ancestry, how nations carry both blessing and fracture, and how the table of nations sets the st...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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25:58
Genesis 9 - Covenant and Consequence
In Genesis 9, God establishes a covenant with all living creatures—a structural promise meant to stabilize creation after chaos. We examine the ontological meaning of covenant, the sacredness of life, the re-establishment of boundaries, and the...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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25:41
Genesis 8 - Renewal Begins
As the waters recede, Genesis 8 opens a chapter of reorientation. Noah waits, listens, releases, discerns. Divine memory becomes the anchor of creation’s restart. We explore how mercy accompanies judgment, how patience becomes formation, and ho...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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29:58
Chapter 7 - Uncreation
Genesis 7 depicts creation unraveling—the boundaries of Genesis 1 collapsing under moral distortion. The flood is not annihilation but uncreation, a return to undifferentiated waters so that structure may be rebuilt. In this episode, we ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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25:13
Genesis 6 - An Imagination for Evil
In Genesis 6, misalignment scales. Violence fills the earth, boundaries blur, and the world’s structure itself begins to break. This episode explores how unchecked autonomy corrodes the moral landscape, how divine grief reveals the weight of re...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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25:56
Genesis 5 - And He Died
Genesis 5 may look like a genealogy, but it is a chapter about ontological continuity—how identity, blessing, and decay pass through generations. We examine how mortality shapes the human story, how righteous lineage preserves resonance ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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32:41
Genesis 4 - The First Violence
Genesis 4 takes us into the inner terrain of worship, envy, and violence. Cain and Abel embody two ontological postures: one aligned, one self-centered. When Cain refuses correction, misalignment spills outward into the soil itself. In this epi...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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29:10
Genesis 3 - The Fracture
Genesis 3 is not just the story of a forbidden tree—it is the story of ontological rupture. In this episode, we examine how deception distorts recognition, how desire is bent inward, and how trust collapses into suspicion. The Fall is no...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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30:03
Genesis 2 - Dust, Breath, and the Architecture of Being
In this episode, we slow down and look closely at Genesis 2—not as a second telling of creation, but as a deeper unveiling of how being itself is structured. Here, humanity is not merely made; humanity is formed—from du...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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28:05
Genesis 1 - Moral Infrastructure
This podcast offers an exegetical reading of Genesis Chapter 1, interpreted through the lens of ontological moral geometry as developed by J. Daniel Alejos. The goal is to reveal how the opening chapter of Scripture does more than...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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32:25
Tending the Garden Episode 15 - The Bedrock of Reality
In this final and most foundational episode of season 1, the AI hosts turn from narrative and metaphor to the underlying logical architecture that supports every claim explored throughout the series. Titled “The Bedrock of Reality,” this...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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47:27
Tending the Garden Episode 14 – “Keep the Lamp Lit” (Finale)
In this final episode of The Deep Dive series on J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden, the AI hosts bring the journey to a close by weaving together the book’s final movements — The Invitation, The Postlude, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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6:03
Tending the Garden Episode 13 – “The One Who Holds”
In this climactic episode, the AI hosts reach Chapter Twelve of J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden, the chapter toward which the entire series has been building. After tracing the reality of morality, the inevitability of fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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12:42
Tending the Garden Episode 12 - “What Holds True?"
In this episode, the AI hosts begin the turn from collapse to restoration, exploring Chapter Eleven: What Holds True? from J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden. After the previous chapter’s heavy meditation on neglect and...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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4:28
Tending the Garden Episode 11 – “Contamination, Neglect, and Damage”
In this episode, the AI hosts turn to one of the most sobering chapters of Tending the Garden — Chapter Ten: Contamination, Neglect, and Damage. After learning what faithful tending looks like, this chapter examines what happe...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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5:11
Tending the Garden Episode 10 – “What It Means to Tend”
In this episode, the AI hosts step into Part III of J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden — the practical heart of the book — beginning with Chapter Nine: What It Means to Tend. After tracing the inevitability of forma...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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4:43
Tending the Garden Episode 9 – “The Role of Art and Symbol”
In this episode, the AI hosts explore Chapter Eight of J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden, titled The Role of Art and Symbol. Building on the idea that formation is relational and ecological, Alejos turns the focus ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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5:09
Tending the Garden Episode 8 – “Praxial Symbiosis”
In this episode, the AI hosts explore Chapter Seven: Praxial Symbiosis from J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden, a turning point in the book where formation moves from personal to relational. After learning how Story, Game, I...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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4:45
Tending the Garden Episode 7 – “The Praxial Modalities”
In this episode, the AI hosts continue through Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos, stepping into one of its most structural chapters: The Praxial Modalities. This conversation translates abstract moral formation into the g...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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5:58