“Nothing comes from without; all things come from within – from the subconscious”
Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard was a Bajan-born American author and
lecturer, who garnered attention from his unique
interpretations on the Bible and Christianity. Goddard
studied under an Ethiopian Rabbi called Abdullah, who
completely changed his views on life, religion, and success
by way of perception. With this divine knowledge, Goddard
then developed multiple ideas for spiritual people to follow,
such as;
– there is no external God (we are Gods),
– positive thinking influences what happens in your life,
– each character in the Bible represents different levels of
consciousness (Jesus being the highest),
– the Law of Assumption,
– Revision, and
– the State Akin to Sleep (SATS).
In this article, we highlight the last three ideas, and how you
can implement them into your life today.
1. The Law Of Assumption
The Law of Assumption is a technique described as one
assuming their desire with all of their senses. You are
assuming that you have already achieved what you wanted
to achieve, and gotten what you wanted to get. Goddard
constantly expressed the importance of feeling your way
into your desires, by actively experiencing every emotion
tied to your desired reality.
How To:
1. Name your desire.
2. Assume that it is your current reality.
3. Cancel any thoughts and feelings that suggest you are not
in that current state of reality.
(E.g. Change “When is my desire coming?” to “My desire is
here”).
2. Revision
(Linked is the 1954 lecture in which Goddard goes into depth about the revision technique).
Revision is basically conscious memory-erasure and re-
creation. In this technique, you revise memories that do not
serve your desired reality and reconstruct them to
something that serves you better, until you start to
genuinely believe it.
How To:
1. Locate an undesirable memory or event.
(E.g. Boss yelling at you during your shift for doing
something wrong).
2. Revise it to something more conscionable.
(E.g. Boss politely tells you what you did wrong, and gently
teaches you how to do it right, with a smile on their face).
3. Repeat the revised scene in your mind until you believe it
to be true.
3. The State Akin To Sleep (SATS)
SATS is Goddard’s technique related to his perception of the
divine purpose of sleep. He believed that sleep serves a
higher purpose of creation, because our conscious brain
shuts off, while our subconscious brain (which he believed
to be the sole creator of our desires) fully activates into it’s
power. SATS is described as the “zone out” state we are in
when daydreaming, or just about to fall asleep. The
subconscious mind (the creator) is highly impressionable
during this time, so Goddard suggested we take advantage of
it by only thinking, feeling, and visualizing things we want
to come true.
How To:
1. Get comfortable: Sit back on a soft chair, or lay in bed.
2. Close your eyes and practice deep breathing until you feel
relaxed and your system appears to be in a pre-sleep
(drowsy) mode.
3. Start to visualize your desire, in detail, using each of
the five senses.
