Author, Editor, Creator, Dreamer

My mission is twofold:

Personal: I translate light, frequency, and energy into story so as to lead others to their truth.

Professional: I help artists, visionaries, and global change makers articulate and amplify their message through the economy of words.

About Tim Shields
(the buttoned-up version)

For nearly three decades, my focus has been on accumulating life experience through travel, which has included buying one-way tickets to India and twice each to Europe and Mexico. My longest journey, which lasted 15 months, found me all over India and Southeast Asia for exactly one year, followed by living in Berlin for the final three months. The result of my journey is the book A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment.

Since walking away from a corporate career in marketing and advertising in late 2015, I’ve made my living as an author, writing coach, editor, and ghostwriter. This has afforded me the opportunity to work with global thought leaders in the fields of science and spirituality, professional athletes, and rock stars—the common thread being they all share a passion for human potential. My most well-known work as an editor was helping the world renowned neuroscientist, researcher, lecturer, and NY Times bestselling author Dr. Joe Dispenza on his critically acclaimed book, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon. Currently I’m collaborating with Dr. Zach Bush.

My passion is writing about the human experience through the prisms of consciousness, quantum physics, healing, transformation, human potential, and society and culture.

My Work Is About You

Introducing The 13 Keys: A New Model for Living, Dreaming, and Creating

The 13 Keys Coursework was created to introduce you to new ideas regarding the mechanism behind self-actualization—the power of directed consciousness.

As such, this coursework is designed to help you move away from limiting thoughts, debilitating programs, and societal conditioning—programs and conditions that keep you stuck, stagnant, or complacent—towards your goals, dreams, and visions.

The result will be living a more purposeful, intentional, creative, and joyful life through the paradigm of energy and the prism of Conscious Creation.

Included is:

  • More than 5.5 hours of content and concepts you won’t find anywhere else, such as a much needed update to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs based on the mechanism behind self-actualization—𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, and the Hero’s Journey 𝘢𝘴 the evolution of consciousness, as well as why 13 is such a powerful integer

  • A walking meditation like you haven’t heard

  • A 98-page, full-color workbook that correlates to the 13 Keys

  • Access to a community of like-minded individuals

  • Regular Sunday lectures about The 13 Keys

  • Guest appearances on my Sunday talks by masters of self-actualization in their chosen field regarding topics such as flow states

  • What I am learning from the projects I am or have worked on.

Upcoming Projects

  • With a forward by Dr. Joe Dispenza and a preface by Harry Massey, 13 Keys: A Memoir from the Future presents an evolved model of self-actualization that accounts for the mechanism behind the process of self-actualization—the power of directed consciousness. This is not a static model that describes a pinnacle experience or an ultimate state, but rather a dynamic model of achievement, possibility, healing, wholeness, and ultimately expansion.

    The catch is that I am explaining all of this to my 17-year-old self. The idea is that because time is an illusion, if I can teach "Young Timothy" these lessons now, it will alter our current and future timelines. (Learn more under in the “books” section.)

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  • In partnership with Bioenergetics’ pioneer Harry Massey, we created the “The GIST Process.” The purpose of this course is to tangibly introduce you to a greater truth—an energetic alternative to an outdated paradigm of which humanity is rapidly outgrowing. This course will give you a greater understanding of how you can become the intentional creator of your life—the source and cause that exists at the intersection of your biology and the energy of the field.

    To learn more about “The GIST Process,” please visit:

    https://www.thegistprocess.com/

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  • One of the most important aspects of becoming the conscious creator of your reality is receiving feedback from the energy you put out into the universe. One of the simplest yet most powerful tools to do that is what fellow collaborator Harry Massey and I call the GIST Process (gratitude, intention, surrender, trust).

    The actualization of The GIST Process—which is a living philosophy of an energetic way of being—is achieved through the GIST Journal, an alchemical tool of creation, manifestation, and feedback.

    To learn more about The GIST Process and GIST Journal, please visit:

    https://www.thegistprocess.com/

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  • Because I am often asked how to begin writing, how to structure a story, and how to get to the heart of what you’re writing about (among other things), I’ve created a course called, The Quantum Writer: a Novel Approach to Writing and Living. The Quantum Writer is about using higher states of consciousness to either write your story or use the writing/creative process as a way of accessing and uncovering deeper parts of one’s self.

    In addition to defining what the quantum writer is, the course shares what the hardest parts of being a writer are and how to overcome them. It also helps the reader learn the “what” and “how” of getting started, discovering the reader’s “why,” various tools, tips, tricks, daily practices, how to court the muse, how to overcome roadblocks, why there is no such thing as “fiction” in writing, self-publishing vs. traditional, tips and tricks for finding an agent and getting published, and what the central question that one’s work/life ladders up to.

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A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment

On the morning of his 36th birthday, Thomas Furey finds himself alone and unemployed. Devastated by the recent loss of his mother, he feels untethered, like he is falling into the depths of something he can’t describe. On a whim, he buys a one-way ticket to India, beginning a year-long journey all over Southeast Asia. Possessed by fear, armed with hope, protected by naïveté, and guided by intention, when Thomas learns to act in alignment with his true self, serendipity and synchronicity intervenes.

Part Anthony Bourdain, part Deepak Chopra, A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment is a story about surrender and trust with a philosophy about consciousness and the nature of creation. Ultimately it’s a spiritual coming of age story for the seeker in all of us.

Dr. Joe Dispenza, NY Times bestselling author

“An honest, vulnerable, transformational travel odyssey into the heart and soul of a man using the power of gratitude and intention. No matter where the reader is in their life, A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment is a story about the magic that occurs in awakening to the unlimited potential of your life’s journey.”