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The Deep Dive - How Reality Works

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Send us a text 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 episode examines the Mandated Consequence Method (MCM) — the rigorous, recursive argument engine designed to expose the deepest structural truths beneath morality, coherence, personhood, and the meaning of alignment. The hosts walk through how ...

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Send us a text 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 episode examines the Mandated Consequence Method (MCM) — the rigorous, recursive argument engine designed to expose the deepest structural truths beneath morality, coherence, personhood, and the meaning of alignment. The hosts walk through how ...

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Religion & Spirituality,

Society & Culture,

Episodes (15/15)

The Deep Dive - How Reality Works

Tending the Garden Episode 15 - The Bedrock of Reality

Send us a text 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 episode examines the Mandated Consequence Method (MCM) — the rigorous, recursive argument engine designed to expose the deepest structural truths beneath morality, coherence, personhood, and the meaning of alignment. The hosts walk through how ...

4 days ago

47 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 13 – “The One Who Holds”

Send us a text 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 formation, and the consequences of misalignment, Alejos brings the framework to its ontological center: Truth is not an idea—it’s a person. The hosts explore how Alejos presents Christ not as a sentimental addition to the argument, but as its necessary concl...

5 days ago

12 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 14 – “Keep the Lamp Lit” (Finale)

Send us a text 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, and The Appendix. This reflective conclusion shifts from analysis to embodiment, asking: What does it mean to live this book? The hosts begin with The Invitation, where Alejos’ tone softens from instruction to intimacy. The Gardener kneels beside the soil of the reader’s li...

5 days ago

6 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 8 – “Praxial Symbiosis”

Send us a text 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, Instruction, and Philosophy shape us in Chapter Six, Alejos now shows how those same structures flow outward — through us into others. The hosts unpack Alejos’ striking claim that “there’s no version of you that is not forming someone.” Every mood, silence,...

5 days ago

4 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 12 - “What Holds True?"

Send us a text 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 symbolic fracture, this one asks the central question: when everything breaks, what still holds? The hosts walk listeners through Alejos’ reconstruction of moral clarity, beginning with his challenge to the illusion of comfort. True peace, Alejos argues, ...

5 days ago

4 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 6 – “Formation Is Inevitable”

Send us a text In this episode, the AI hosts begin Part II of J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden — moving from the question of what morality is to how it actually forms us. Chapter Five, Formation Is Inevitable, reveals one of Alejos’ most urgent insights: formation isn’t something we choose to do; it’s something always happening to us. The hosts unpack this sobering idea — that every person is constantly being shaped by their environment, habits, and stories, whether or not they’re paying ...

5 days ago

4 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 7 – “The Praxial Modalities”

Send us a text 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 grammar of how people actually learn, live, and are shaped. Alejos outlines four primary “modes” through which formation occurs — Story, Game, Instruction, and Philosophy — each representing a different way truth becomes embodied. The hosts break down these...

5 days ago

5 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 10 – “What It Means to Tend”

Send us a text 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 formation and the moral weight of influence, Alejos turns to the lived response: faithful tending. The hosts unpack how Alejos reframes moral and spiritual maturity away from control and performance, toward attentive stewardship. Tending, they explain, is the posture of...

5 days ago

4 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 11 – “Contamination, Neglect, and Damage”

Send us a text 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 happens when formation is ignored or corrupted. As Alejos warns, formation never stops; neglect isn’t neutral — it’s permission for decay. The hosts unpack Alejos’ central warning that inaction is itself formation: when the moral garden is left untended, “weeds...

5 days ago

5 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 9 – “The Role of Art and Symbol”

Send us a text 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 outward — to the symbols, designs, and aesthetics that quietly shape who we become. The hosts unpack Alejos’ central claim: aesthetics are not decoration — they’re formation. Beauty, art, and design act as moral forces, training our instincts long before we reason ...

5 days ago

5 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 5 – “Can Objective Moral Frameworks Be Derived?”

Send us a text In this pivotal episode, the AI hosts reach Chapter Four of Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos — the point where moral philosophy meets its limit. After examining the failures of personal instinct in Broken Compasses, Alejos now asks whether an objective moral framework can be built from within human reason, consensus, or evolution itself. The answer, he argues, is no — because every human-made system ultimately borrows values it cannot generate. Through lucid conversation,...

5 days ago

5 minutes

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An Introduction to Tending the Garden

Send us a text Episode 1 – “You’re Already Becoming Someone” In this opening episode, the AI hosts introduce Tending the Garden: Rebuilding Moral Infrastructure in a Fractured World by J. Daniel Alejos — a work at the crossroads of theology, psychology, and philosophy that maps the hidden architecture of how identity and morality are formed. The hosts invite listeners to explore what it means to be constantly shaped by the forces around us. They unpack Alejos’ striking claim that format...

5 days ago

5 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 4 – “Broken Compasses: The Limitations of Subjective Morality”

Send us a text In this episode, the AI hosts continue their journey through J. Daniel Alejos’ Tending the Garden with Chapter Three — Broken Compasses: The Limitations of Subjective Morality. After establishing that morality is real and that “ought” gives meaning to freedom, Alejos turns to a sobering question: what if our inner compass is off? The hosts explore how moral instinct, while powerful, isn’t infallible. Alejos warns that “the thing about moral instinct is that it doesn’t whisper, ...

5 days ago

4 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 2 – “The Innate Sense of Morality”

Send us a text In this episode, the AI hosts continue their exploration of Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos, turning to Chapter One: The Innate Sense of Morality. This discussion digs into one of Alejos’ most foundational claims — that morality isn’t invented or negotiated, but recognized. Beneath culture, language, and opinion, there exists an “invisible ought,” an internal compass that quietly but insistently points toward the good. Through clear, reflective dialogue, the hosts examin...

5 days ago

4 minutes

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Tending the Garden Episode 3 – “The Importance of Oughts”

Send us a text In this episode, the AI hosts return to Tending the Garden by J. Daniel Alejos to unpack Chapter Two: The Importance of Oughts. Picking up from the prior discussion on humanity’s innate moral compass, the hosts explore what happens when a culture abandons the word “should.” Alejos argues that our sense of obligation — the awareness that some things ought to be done — isn’t a social construct but the framework that gives meaning to freedom, trust, and coherence. The conversation...

5 days ago

4 minutes