Red Shaman
Stephane has always been a figure with which I've conflicted with time after time. I had the chance of meeting a guy that recorded one of his DVDs back when Stephane, Lothar, this guy, me and many other people were hooked by the channellings of the Crimson Circle. I remember now how those who started listening to it for the first 8-9 years suddenly split and stop listening to it (not all of them, I'm sure) when at the CC they told us "we were fired" from any association to the stereotype of mystic, lightworker, hippie, new age, etc... as apparently we've done our job and now we were free to live life as complete "new" (I'm sure Tobias might be chuckling to himself when I struggle to say this) humans... aware and yet without any moralism or judgement but aware of the mechanics of thought processes, reality and its use -then again, the first 8-9 year "series".
Now I look at the shamanistic side of it (not did I chose theshamann back in 1999 for the mail @hotmail and used it ever since, watching it change, born and shift throughout the years as back in that time not many people had a theshamann -even less with the double "n" of my last name) and I think that probably that dream of that, still adolescent Adolfo of "super mystic neo-shamann" (haha) is actually coming true. As time passes the obsolescence of nowadays "teachers" (the same old in fact: Chopra, Cohelo, Osho, etc...) sound cliché and at times comically misleading. There's very good choices though but that's what I mean when I say that at this stage most teachings doesn't sound personally true to me but rather "universally accepted". Shamanism (said by them, not me) is the practice of the searching for the Truth, no more no less. It's not about God and it's, not ironically, in fact, closer to nature and the natural side of the universe than it is to "God". Have you heard a Shaman say "thanks to goddess nature for..." or have you heard him/her say "thanks to mother nature for..."???
Shamans don't even question topics like god, jesus, etc, in the way that we do in our current societies. Our conception of reality is way too biased towards religions and faith (thus Chopras and Cohelos as counterparts to the rescue of mankind) and forgets the basic elements of all that is. A shaman connects with nature as we would ever like to connect with god on "our" western society. From the moment we're born we are looking for the Truth as it is the organic nature of the body to start defining reality since we open our eyes; and if we dedicate to the practice of Truth rather than the search of God (which is Truth) we boceome our personal shamans and our personal connections with the universe in all its forms starts developing more personally and naturally... and that's when one of those days you become either a unicorn and disappear or a u.f.o comes and takes you :P ;)
Anyhow I came here to talk about Stephane and didn't and now I'm tired. I just wanted to make a comment of this paragraph which I relate a lot to but really, I'm tired.
Mmmm that's all now...
"What's more is I knew that I had just recorded something that would assist even myself. You see, on that part of the spiritual path called ‘the final run', there can be moments of great agony known as the "dark night of the ego." One either reaches a very high state and then crashes back down to an ordinary state, or there can be a trip to hell, as well as moments of great inner confusion. These so-called "dark nights" have been described by numerous saints over the centuries, and they really are as awful as everyone says they are. 
" -s.h
