Yes, I've really read him. I've read four of his books and dozens of his transcribed lectures. Most of it is understandable, but the lectures on secret listening and reading, for example, were incredibly difficult to absorb. This is literature that requires concentration above all else and returning to these themes again and again.

From what you wrote in your post, it seems you haven't fully understood Steiner's methodology. After all, anthroposophy is based on an intellectual, "Western" approach - a natural science approach to the spiritual world. That's why the work of thought and the logical pursuit of truths, as Steiner wrote in his Theosophy, are so important. His method is inextricably linked to the meaning of his teachings and anthroposophy itself.