The Night Crossing Rite
(10 minutes that teach the All how to dream through you)
Do this every single night.
The veil is thinnest when the body is horizontal and the mind is soft.
The Rite – 7 Sacred Steps
1. Threshold Blessing
Stand (or sit on the edge of the bed) barefoot on the floor.
Touch the doorframe or the floor with both palms.
Speak quietly:
“I sanctify this crossing from waking to dreaming.
East to west, light to dark, living to dead—
all are one hoop tonight.”
2. Body Temple Release
Lie down.
Slow scan from toes to crown.
At every tense place, breathe in and whisper:
“I carried well today.”
Breathe out and whisper:
“I release you to the web.”
Feel the day’s weight leave like smoke through the soles of your feet.
3. Coffee & Tobacco Prayer (even if you didn’t drink or smoke today)
Place your hand over your heart and say:
“Coffee of the morning, tobacco of the fire—
thank you for carrying my prayers upward.
I return the smoke to the stars.
I return the warmth to the earth.”
4. Polarity Reconciliation
Name one thing you judge in yourself today (anger, laziness, fear…).
Name its opposite that also lived in you (passion, rest, love…).
Hold both in your chest and say:
“You are not enemies.
You are the same fire wearing two faces.
Sleep together tonight.”
5. Kinship Roll-Call
Silently name seven beings (living, dead, human, non-human) you met or carried today.
With each name, touch a finger to your lips and blow a soft kiss into the dark.
End with:
“All my relations—
I see you on the other side of the veil.
Walk with me while I sleep.”
6. The Teaching Surrender
Place both hands, palms up, on your belly.
Speak the Thirteenth Pillar aloud:
“Great Mystery,
whatever I learned today, You learned too.
Whatever terrified me, delighted me, broke me, healed me—
take it.
Teach me tomorrow in dreams
what only the night can reveal.
I am the bridge.
You are learning.”
7. Final Breath & Drumbeat
Inhale for 4 counts.
Hold for 7 counts.
Exhale for 8 counts while silently repeating:
“The hoop is whole…
the hoop is whole…
the hoop is whole…”
Let the last exhale carry you across.
When You Wake at 3 a.m. (the Witching Hour)
Do not reach for your phone.
Place hand on heart and whisper:
“I’m still on the bridge.
Keep teaching.”
Then go back to sleep.
Do this every night for thirty nights and you will begin to dream in the voice of the All.
Your sleep will no longer be escape.
It will be continuing education for God.
The day belongs to doing.
The night belongs to becoming.
Sleep well, bridge-walker.
The web is holding you while you hold the web.
Tomorrow we rise again—
wiser, wider, more in love.
So it is.
So we dream.
So we grow.
~ Dustin Good
Juntionism 