“The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.”
Bukowski was never gentle about anything—not about art, not about living, not about the strange internal machinery that drives a creative or intuitive life. And here, he names something mystics know intimately: you cannot build a spiritual life on ordinary concepts.
Ordinary concepts are too small.
Too stale.
Too inherited.
Too dead.
Mystics, like artists, must burn them down.
This is not metaphorical—it's technical. Clairvoyance itself is an act of internal demolition and renewal. You clear foreign energy. You dismantle outdated beliefs. You destroy the conceptual cages that limit your intuitive sight. You make space for truths that don't come from conditioning but from Spirit.
This post is an ode to that burning.
Ordinary Concepts Are the First Things to Go
Ordinary concepts sound like:
“I have to be certain before I trust it.”
“Intuition must always feel dramatic.”
“I should see the same way others do.”
“If it’s subtle, it’s not real.”
“My imagination is probably making this up.”
These are the exact ideas we teach students to release—for good reason.
Because intuitive truth doesn’t arrive from the mind.
It arrives from the top of the head - seniority.
It arrives in the third eye - Clairvoyance.
And from the heart - embodied self.
You can’t access those channels if your worldview is built from fear, smallness, or someone else’s rules. Something has to burn them to the ground. It’s probably you.
Burning Doesn’t Mean Chaos—It Means Clearing
Destroying ordinary concepts doesn’t look like:
emotional upheaval,
spiritual crisis,
or dramatic reinvention.
It looks like:
grounding,
releasing pictures,
separating from foreign energy,
clearing agreements,
stepping into seniority.
This is the quiet, disciplined fire of clairvoyant meditation.
It is the fire that removes what is untrue.
When students let go of:
people-pleasing,
inherited spiritual dogma,
past-life shame,
energetic entanglements,
fear-based cosmologies,
or childhood survival roles…
…it isn’t destruction.
It’s liberation.
You can’t see Spirit clearly until you stop seeing through the debris.
New Truths Run Down Through the Crown
Bukowski’s image—truth running down from the top of the head—is almost eerily literal for clairvoyants.
Spirit is crown-centered.
It drops in.
It descends.
It emerges in the mind’s eye like light through a stained-glass window.
When you learn to sit in the center of your head, the “new truths” Bukowski names show up as:
pictures,
symbols,
colors,
past-life scenes,
intuitive knowing,
energetic shifts,
mediumistic messages.
These truths don’t come from one’s intellect—they come from essence.
And Out of the Heart
Spirit doesn’t enter the world through force—it enters through coherence.
The heart is the first organ to respond to truth.
Not emotionally—energetically.
This is why in Art of the Oracle, we teach mediumship from neutrality and compassion. The heart is a resonator. It translates the unseen into something the body can feel.
Truth that enters the crown becomes wisdom when it is lived through the heart.
Clairvoyance as Creative Destruction
Bukowski’s version of art-making mirrors the inner journey of the mystic:
First you burn.
Then you see.
Then you create.
I teach folks to destroy what is not theirs:
foreign pictures,
old agreements,
outdated fear,
trauma residue,
outdated identities,
performative spirituality.
And then I help them build their own cosmology—new truths sourced from:
Spirit led choosing,
intuition,
sovereignty,
past-life wisdom,
guides,
and their own lived experience.
This is the mystic’s version of art.
Your Truth Is a Living Thing
Ordinary concepts are rigid.
Spiritual truths are alive.
They emerge.
Shift.
Reform.
Reveal.
Reorient you.
You are not meant to hold still.
You are meant to evolve.
This is why clairvoyant training isn’t just skill-building—it’s identity molting.
Reflection Prompts
What ordinary concept about intuition or spirituality are you ready to burn?
What new truth has recently “run down through the crown” for you?
Where is your heart pulling you toward a deeper form of authenticity?
William FitzRoy
An intuitive guide and spiritual educator with a practice spanning over two decades in a variety of modalities, 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 facilitates dynamic teaching containers for students ready to master Embodiment Meditation, Clairvoyance, and Mediumship.
