The Steiner Series: Part 2 of 10
Clairvoyance, literally "clear-seeing," is the psychic ability to perceive energies, images, or information beyond ordinary sight. This can manifest as seeing auras, receiving intuitive imagery, or visualizing spiritual realities.
Many students first discover clairvoyance through subtle experiences—flashes during meditation, symbolic pictures in dreams, or sensing energy around certain people.
But how do we move from random flashes to a reliable skill?
Rudolf Steiner described a disciplined path to what he called Imaginative Cognition.
According to Steiner, imaginative cognition is the first stage of supersensible knowledge. It is the ability to see and create spiritual truths in picture form once certain inner faculties—the "organs" of the soul—are developed.
Rather than slipping into trance or fantasy, which is a passive or receptive state, Steiner emphasized the importance of clarity, spiritual intent, and awake consciousness when cultivating spiritual sight - an active engagement of one’s inner life and the world around them.
The Mechanics of "Pictorial Language"
Steiner’s teachings distinguish between untrained, chaotic psychic impressions and the structured development of true clairvoyance.
Untrained Impressions: These are often projections of unprocessed emotion or a disorganized aspect of your own astral body. If a vision feels frightening, chaotic, or irrational, it is usually "Astral Noise."
True Clairvoyance: This is structured, neutral, and symbolic.
Steiner explained that imaginative perception has a "pictorial language." Spiritual truths are shown symbolically as mental image pictures, much like when you read a book and see the scene in your mind's eye.
However, there is a crucial nuance here that we emphasize at the Academy:
The goal is not just to see these pictures, but to understand what they mean to you.
Steiner encouraged discernment and self-integration. Clairvoyant visions should align with your own visual language, referenced by your own lived experience and proclivities—not some "universal truth" given to you by another.
If you see a Red Rose, it might mean "Love" to you.
To someone else, it might mean "Warning."
To another, it might mean "Grandma."
Clairvoyance is a personal visual language that matures with patience, self-reflection, and ongoing spiritual practice in a held space. It is the practice of building your own internal dictionary of symbols and meaning.
🔭 One of the truly magical things about our community at Art of the Seer is that since we share a commitment to the same tools, techniques, and practice container, it’s easy to reach out to each other members and create your own reading and healing exchanges. Using this post as inspiration, find a partner to work with—perhaps someone you know from a current or previous class, or post in the practicum chat groups that you were inspired by this post and find someone new to explore with.
🏄♂️ Weekly Practitioner Exchange: 30-Minute Reading & Healing
Pair up with a reading partner and exchange 30-minute Clairvoyant Readings together. Practice both giving and receiving as a way of deepening your experience and relationship to this topic.
The Reading Topics:
The Screen: Look at the readee’s 6th Chakra (Center of the Head). Is there a clear "screen" for them to view pictures on, or is it cluttered with mental noise?
The Projector: Look at where their images come from. Are they coming from the Analyzer (Mental Fantasy/Wishful Thinking) or from the Third Eye (Clairvoyance)? Validate the difference in vibration of these two spaces and functions.
The Dictionary: Ask the readee to mock up a specific symbol (e.g., a Golden Key). Ask them: "What does this mean to YOU?" Read the energy of their interpretation.
The Projection: Look for a place where the readee is projecting an unprocessed emotion (fear/desire) and mistaking it for a clairvoyant insight.
Healing Focus: Give the readee a healing on their 6th Chakra. Help them "clean the glass" of their sight so they can see images clearly, without the overlay of their own pictoral projections.
🧘🏾♂️ One Small Step: A Solo Micro-Action
Sometimes something is too charged to feel safe being vulnerable in interpersonal spaces with it at first. If this is really stimulating you, you can work this energy in meditation using your tools, or in moments of embodiment and pause throughout your day.
The "After-Image" Activation
This is a classic Steiner exercise to strengthen the "inner muscle" of the Third Eye.
Ground and Center: Sit comfortably.
Observe: Choose a simple, neutral object (a candle flame, a stone, a colored card). Stare at it for 60 seconds. Blink as little as possible.
Close: Close your eyes.
Recreate: Try to see the object in the darkness of your mind’s eye. Don’t just "think" about it—try to actually see the color and shape.
Hold: Hold the image as long as you can before it fades.
Tell me in the comments: What is one "symbol" that appears often in your life (e.g., butterflies, specific numbers, a color)? What does it mean to YOU?
📓 Journaling and Self-Reflection Prompts
Sometimes we need to write it down to get it out of our aura. People learn, experience, and process energy in a variety of ways—visually, auditorily, conceptually—and here at AotSA, we validate all those different forms. If you process through writing, take 10 minutes with your journal to "audit" a recurring picture in your space you’ve come across using this template.
The History Audit: Write about early signs of your spiritual abilities. Have you seen auras, spirits, or images during meditation? How did it feel? (Scary? Natural? Confusing?)
Fantasy vs. Clairvoyance: Steiner distinguishes between true imagination (spiritual pictures) and fantasy (mental noise). Reflect on a recent vision. Did it carry the weight of insight, or was it the "lightness" of daydreaming?
Your Dictionary: Start a "Symbol Log." Write down three symbols that have appeared to you recently. Next to them, write what the books say they mean. Then, cross that out and write what your intuition says they mean.
An intuitive guide and spiritual educator with a practice spanning over two decades in a variety of modalities, William FitzRoy is the founder of the Art of the Seer, a premier destination for spiritual growth and development established in 2015. William believes that psychic tools and spiritual awareness is a practice available to everyone, and he has dedicated his career to demystifying the "unseen" for practical, everyday empowerment in the new new age.
While he is sought after for his insightful and cathartic readings and healings—available online or in-person at his Downtown Chicago studio—William’s true passion lies in mentorship. He facilitates dynamic teaching containers for students ready to master Embodiment Meditation, Clairvoyance, and Mediumship. From curious beginners to seasoned advanced students looking for a fresh perspective and new techniques for their toolkit, William provides the experiences, structure, and support needed to turn any sensitivity into a superpower.
