"Their faces melt into a shimmering verb
when you look into their eyes."
About the Book
You feel everything. That has never been the problem. The problem is that no one gave you a map.
Luminous Sensitivity is that map — written for people who experience the emotional and energetic states of others as directly as their own. Not as metaphor. Not as sensitivity in the soft, general sense. As a perceptual fact that shapes every room you walk into, every conversation you have, every person who leaves you depleted or restored.
This book names what you are, helps you recognize what drains you and what feeds you, and — finally — makes the case that your sensitivity is not a wound to manage but a form of consciousness to cultivate.
"A Brighteyes will make you feel
that life is worth the suffering."
Written from lived experience, philosophical depth, and a disarming honesty about both the beauty and the cost of radical openness.
Contents
- I What Is an Empath
- II The Vampath
- III Brighteyes
- IV The Sociopath in the Coffee Shop
- V Gets You Out of Your Heart and Into Mind
- VI Memento Mori / Memento Amore
- VII Cat / Birds / Who Am I?
- VIII The Triple Bind
- IX Tapestry of Emotions
- X The Zipless Fuck
- XI Satchitananda
- XII I Like to Catch God Dreaming
From the Manuscript
There is a person you will meet, once or twice in a lifetime, whose presence does something specific to the quality of the air. Not the room's air — yours. These are what this book calls Brighteyes. Their faces melt into a shimmering verb when you look into their eyes. They radiate so strongly that their verb nature is obvious even without eye-gazing.
The vampath is the other encounter. You recognize them by what happens in your body after an hour in their company — not tiredness, but depletion. Something has been taken. The simplest way to understand their dynamic is this:
It gets you out of your heart, and into mind — that way they can feed on your heart energy while you're distracted.
And then there is the deeper territory — where the practical becomes philosophical, where surviving vampaths opens into something much larger:
The educated say memento mori — remember death. Remember to live before we die. The lover adds memento amore: remember to love before you die. The wise know to die in every moment, so that we can be reborn in every moment. But remember to love first.
I particularly like the Indian concept of Satchitananda — sat, chit, ananda: thusness, consciousness, bliss. The meaning is that existence itself has the nature of consciousness, and all forms are part of that awareness. We each have a direct connection with source energy. It is not just some tenuous string. We are all inside of God.
As a Shamanic Photographer, I like to catch God dreaming.