Ontology 101
J. Daniel Alejos
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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.
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Genesis 15 - The Covenant Cut
Send a textGenesis 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…
Genesis 14 - The Priest-King
Send a textGenesis 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…
Genesis 13 - Strife and Space
Send a textIn 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…
S4E12 Episode 12 - The Call
Send a textGenesis 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…
S4E11 Genesis 11 — Babel’s Collapse
Send a textGenesis 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…
S4E10 Genesis 10 - The Nations
Send a textGenesis 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…
S4E9 Genesis 9 - Covenant and Consequence
Send a textIn 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…
S4E8 Genesis 8 - Renewal Begins
Send a textAs 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…
S4E7 Chapter 7 - Uncreation
Send a textGenesis 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…
S4E6 Genesis 6 - An Imagination for Evil
Send a textIn 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…
S4E5 Genesis 5 - And He Died
Send a textGenesis 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…
S4E4 Genesis 4 - The First Violence
Send a textGenesis 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,…
S4E3 Genesis 3 - The Fracture
Send a textGenesis 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…
S4E2 Genesis 2 - Dust, Breath, and the Architecture of Being
Send a textIn 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…
S4E1 Genesis 1 - Moral Infrastructure
Send a textThis 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…
S1E15 Tending the Garden Episode 15 - The Bedrock of Reality
Send a textIn 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…
S1E12 Tending the Garden Episode 12 - “What Holds True?"
Send a textIn 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…
S1E9 Tending the Garden Episode 9 – “The Role of Art and Symbol”
Send a textIn 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…
S1E13 Tending the Garden Episode 13 – “The One Who Holds”
Send a textIn 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…
S1E11 Tending the Garden Episode 11 – “Contamination, Neglect, and Damage”
Send a textIn 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…
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Ontology 101 has published 30 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Christianity, Philosophy.
Ontology 101 is currently dormant with new episodes daily. Average episode length is 18m.
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