Lukeyou​theU
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Before I get philosophical, I want you to know that this website is a work in progress. I am a work in progress. I have been adjusting and modifying the site for, well, years; and myself for all of my life. Will, more than likely, continue to do so in both. If you want to know when specific pages on the site have been updated/ changed, scroll down to the list of revision dates in the footer.

This is a personal project about which I care deeply. It is also something I want to (have to) put "out there," to make known, so I have put it online for the world to see. It talks about, wrestles with, tries to understand, I try to understand/ find/ make/ build, meaning in Life. Which includes into my life. May also yours. I hope you find the site engaging. If you choose to explore and consider it, and/ or its associated podcasts, essays, books, I think you will, in addition, find it challenging. Challenging for all the good reasons, I hope. It, I, aim for you to better know and consciously decide what you think and believe.

If you have suggestions, find errors, want to contact me, you can use the link in the footer. Constructive comments will be answered; disrespectful or wantonly vague ones will not.

I say this flat out: this website is not for everybody. If you have read this far, It may be for you.



I would start at the beginning but the beginning has long ago begun. We are right in the middle of it, dear reader, right smack dab in the middle of this thing called Life. The past is behind us, unchangeable except in the most important ways: in what we learn from it, and in what we think it means. The future stretches before us. Unknown and undecided. Long, or short. It could all go horribly, cataclysmically wrong. Humanity, life on this planet, could soon come to an end. Tomorrow. Today. That is a possibility. I think it not probable but it is possible.
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But there is hope. Rational hope. The choices we make, the actions we take have an impact not only in our own big-to-us-but-little-to-the-Universe lives but also in the world. They ripple out, these thoughts physicalized, and affect others. I have hope for the future. Not just because I am a Luke-from-that-space-movie-series fan (I am). Not just because I believe in science (I do). Not just because Luke from Holy Writ is my favorite gospeler (he is). I have hope because hope makes sense. It makes logical sense, and heartfelt sense, too.

Life, in an untold multitudinous variety of forms, has existed for a very long time on this planet, and likely on other planets in this vast universe. It may or may not be in forms we currently recognize, or ever will. Some may be here right now and we do not see them. Life itself will make it no matter what we do. Life survives, changes, grows. We need not worry about Life. What about our lives, the life on this planet? These we would be smart to concern ourselves with. The questions before us: for how much longer will humanity have a role in Life? And of what quality, of what benefit, will that role be?

What can I, one little (or big), insignificant (or button-pushing) person do? 

LukeyoutheU (Luke-you-the U), this website, these ideas, are my way of making sense of life. If you are looking for the one way, for the way to have life, your life, Life itself make sense, you are not going to find it here. I do not believe there is one universal way for all people to see and understand life. I do not believe that if we all just agreed on everything life would be "perfect."

This website is open to all who have access to the internet. It is open, but it is not free. Far from it. It asks from you your most valuable, powerful possessions: you time and your attention. I believe, for most of you, possibly for all of you, it will be worth it. If you are among the wise who know that being able to pay and then paying for something increases one's appreciation of it, the worth of it, there are ways you can. You can buy LyU books (available May 1), for example.

LukeyoutheU is not a big idea. Oh wait, it is. It is a GIANT idea. One that captures, inspires, and guides me. May also you. As mentioned above, LyU has podcasts, essays, books. Podcasts you can listen to, essays you can read, books you can ponder.

If you are in the mood for continued big, overview-thinking right now, you can, right now, read more.


​Thank you for looking in.

Jake Knight

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​Podcasts
Essays
Books
Website


Podcasts info
The Consciousness Shift podcast
We are moving to a higher level of consciousness: a metaphysical perspective of life.

​Conversations with Marc podcast
Ongoing discussions with an open-minded Christian about religion, philosophy, and practical matters.

Heroes of the Bible and the Quran podcast
Many heroes appear in both both holy books: can we, what can we learn from the stories of another faith?

​​Luke's Perspective, and Ours podcast
Luke's look at Jesus' words, actions, and meaning, and ours: the Life they, and the Bible, can show/ give us today.
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​Straight from a Scientist podcast
Scientific discoveries reported by their discoverers; views on the wonders of, and how to improve on, life.


Essays full list
Life is an Invitation 4min essay
The quality of your life, in many ways, is up to you.

The Most Important Thing 5min essay
What is the most important/ better action for you to be taking right now?


Books info
7 ways to think and feel better
Like it or not, you are the major player in your life. Consciously choosing how you think, and what you think about, can significantly improve your life experience. Drawn from my time bicycling in and around Palm Springs.

Deciding What You Want
Understandings from two Jesus parables. One tells us to suppose that we have a hundred sheep (not that we are sheep but that we have sheep); the other that we are the owner of coins. They go on to say, to imply, that when we go after what we believe is ours, there may be risk but we can find it; and that there is celebrating on earth, and extra joyousness in heaven, when we do.

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Website
More more
A fuller introduction to LukeyoutheU ideas and website.

Mystery Pages explore explore explore explore explore
Adventures ahead! Use the links to jump to tucked-away pages in the LyU site.















































































































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You are an investigator, a finder-outer. Possibly, a kinetic learner. All good!

Why good? Because there is always more. The universe, Life, continues to expand, and we are a part of that expansion. We can, if we choose, be a bigger part, a good part, of that increase.
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In LukeyoutheU, I am asking you to actively become more. To become more of your greater self. Namely, to assemble and make, to find and create, and to imagine and cause to be. The word LukeyoutheU parallels the time frames in which LyU works: the past, the now, and the future.

​Assemble and make. Assemble and make of the good that existed in your personal past, and from our collective past. Remember the things you have learned from you own experience; add to your personal knowledge the experience of others that work for and help you. Not only those that help you alone but that help others also. Bring that knowledge forward into your consciousness; practice the good things in it until they become habits. Until they move from habits and what you are doing into who you are.

​Find and create. Find and create what is useful and good from that which currently exists in your life. From what is in the world already, right now. Concentrate, focus mostly on those things. Work toward, give mental time and physical energy to them. Do not deny the bad or difficult or wrong; instead, receive them as gifts and learn from them. Find, but, more importantly, decide, the good even (perhaps especially) in unwanted situations. Do not try to escape the wonder and good of your physical reality on this earth. Take up the responsibility and power you have, you this minute have. Grow into greater responsibility, power, and love to bring more.

The good that exists now includes you, your being alive today.

You have good within you, and an ability to add to the world. I ask you to use it.

See that what exists now is real. Understand that the physical world is very real. It is real and meaningful, the result of the greater mind, including human ones, from days and centuries and millennia and eons past. This mind, this Life, of which we are a part and contributor, got us to where we are right now. ​Know, at the same time, that all that is physical will pass. Eventually or soon. Every mountain range of it. The continual process of change does not make it or you or me an illusion or, necessarily, insignificant. It makes it, us, the now.
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Imagine and cause to be. The now serves as a blasting off point, is the lifting off place for the what-will-be. Seek and find the helpful, useful, and good; actively create, evolve it, and yourself, into the what-will-be. Imagine it and you in your mind. Believe in it, and yourself. Believe in it with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Make it a full-bodied, your fully embodied belief. Start with mental assent, internal agreement; add to it, bring life to it with your actions and work. Understand and use your individual power and ability to shape your world, the world, and bring good.
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​You are being asked, I am asking you, dear reader, to do nothing less than to make more Life. To bring more and better Life into your individual life, and to Life itself; to feel, experience, and know the connection of being in accord with the universe.

I photographed all the header photos on this website. None of the images have been altered except the one now way above: its colors were saturated and a painterly effect added.