Lukeyou​theU
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I here offer you my thoughts. You may or may or may not agree with them but offer them I believe I must. There is little to buy here, much to listen to and read. None of it is for free. All of it asks for some of your time, attention, and consideration. 


Some want peace, some want excitement. I want good portions of both. I want the stability and calmness of knowing all is well; and I want to live robustly, to tackle the problems that do exist, that I can. I want to increase the good that is here, in this life; and to make my life, and life for others, better. I like this world. I like my life. I also believe that both can increase in richness and joy. There are challenges now (whose life does not have them?); there are going to be challenges ahead. So what. I have always thought travelling along an endlessly flat plain tiresome. I want to live life fully and experience much. I want to leave this life as someone fondly remembered, after having added much good.

How about you? What do you want?

If you need time to consider the question, please take it. As much as I have anything to do with it, this page will be here when you are ready to return.

LukeyoutheU, comprised of this website, its associated podcasts, essays, books, me, is an idea. The idea is: we can learn from, take good from, the past, including from history, religions, and science; we can find, and make more good in, our individual and corporate lives now; we can build, invest today, for a better future tomorrow. A future that is not only better for ourselves, not only better for our kin and kind, but for all. Including all humans, and most other species on earth.

It is not a big idea. Oh wait, it is. It is a GIANT idea. One that has captured me, inspires me, guides me. 

And you? What do you think about it?

If it interests you, I am glad you are here. You are in a great position to consider it. LukeyoutheU (abbreviated as "LyU") has podcasts you can listen to, essays you can read, books you can ponder. If you are in the mood for continued big, overview thinking, you can read more. 


​Thank you for looking in.

Jake Knight





​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. Good!

Why good? Because there is always more. The universe 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 pairings parallel the time frames in which LyU works: the past, the now, and the future.

​Assemble and make use 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 and 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 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, recieve 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. 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.