Dream Tethering and The Mystical Path with Tim Shields

"We are the Divine Creators of our Reality" - Tim Shields

In this episode, Forrest Wilson sits down with writer, editor, and literary collaborator Tim Shields (host of The Inciting Incident podcast and author of A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment) for a wide‑ranging, deeply mystical conversation about consciousness, creativity, and the future of humanity.

Tim shares the “inciting incident” that cracked him open at 17 during a psychedelic mushroom journey at a Grateful Dead concert, and how that experience set him on a lifelong path of writing, travel, and spiritual exploration. He unpacks his upcoming book Dream Tethering, introduces his model of self‑actualization called the Circletron, and explains why he believes we are a threshold species standing at a pivotal evolutionary moment.

Along the way, Forrest and Tim explore time as a river of information, receiving “downloads,” working closely with Dr. Joe Dispenza and Dr. Zach Bush, navigating grief and generational trauma, and how artists and conscious media can be “lighthouses” in support of birthing a new world.

In This Episode, Tim and Forrest Explore:

• Gratitude, Intention, and Synchronicity
  • The long‑term impact of writing 5 gratitudes + 5 intentions every day since 2010.
  • How this practice helped catalyze synchronicities and surprising opportunities in work, travel, and income.
  • Today’s intentions become tomorrow’s gratitudes
• Working with Dr. Joe Dispenza & Becoming Supernatural
  • Tim first met Dr. Joe at a workshop in 2010 and recognized him as a key teacher
  • Living in Dr. Joe’s material for years as the editor of Becoming Supernatural
• Dream Tethering: Creating the Life of Your Dreams
  • Dream Tethering as pulling your dream to you instead of chasing it.
  • Being the vortex and torus field
• The Circletron: A New Model of Self-Actualization
  • Concentric circles representing different levels of consciousness and possibility
  • Each ring made of many points: “possibilities in space and time”
  • Early life: expanding out, exploring experiences; later life: returning toward the center
  • The Circletron as a torus field—a dynamic, circulating field of energy and experience
  • To get to the next level of consciousness you must overcome at least one of:
    • Fear
    • Trauma
    • Limited thinking
  • Staying stuck at one level when you don’t face those thresholds
• Time as a River of Information, Downloads, and The Fractal Present Moment
  • Time as a river of information flowing through us
  • The more present we are, the more information we are aware of
  • Different kinds of “downloads”
• Threshold Species & Conscious Media
  • We’re in the “birth canal” of a new phase of human evolution—painful but purposeful
  • Humanity as a threshold species recognizing we are more energy than matter.
  • The press as a “perception machine” that hijacks fear and divides.
  • Why artists, leaders, and conscious storytellers are essential lighthouses for a new earth in a noisy world.

If this conversation resonates, please share it with a friend who is following their creative calling and on their path of awakening.

Links:

Forrest's Website

Hire Forrest as a Coach

ForrestBWilson on Instagram

TheRealTimShields.com

TheRealTimShields on Instagram

Listen to Forrest on Episode 32 of Tim's Podcast, The Inciting Incident