What are some of the rituals or things you do you do to walk towards that 7th direction?

From Dr. Fu-Kiau’s book “African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo”

“The Bantu people, in their teaching, believe that the human being suffers mostly because of his lack of knowing how to walk towards this 7th direction, the innerwards direction. Their own words put it so perfectly well: (No matter what, you may walk leftwards, rightwards, forwards, backwards, upwards or downwards, you must come back to the core/center).

The human being is nothing unless he discovers how to walk towards the 7th direction, the center, the inner world which represent the essence of his being. As such, one has to discover, or rediscover, this walk towards the 7th direction, not only for the sake of health and self-healing but because it empowers one for self-knowing as well. It allows us to truly become “thinking-acting-beings” i.e., doers because we are masters to ourselves.

But when the core of a body is oppressed, destroyed, polluted, corrupted, or raped, be it biological, societal, institutional or national, the body that envelops it is itself dead. The path that leads towards it, the 7th direction, is also wiped out. People become helpless. They lose their self-healing power and their order-giver-stimulus.

In this situation, the body cannot be healed unless the “primitive state of the core is restored. To do so is a process of cleansing its core, i.e., “depolluting” it. In other words it is learning the techniques of the curative “garbology” which is a process of digging out the junk that prevents access to the core of the inner power.

The walk on the path towards the 7th direction is the key to all healings. To help one walk on this path is not only to empower him/her, but it is to restore him/her as a whole. It is to restore the self-healing power and turn on again the order-giver-stimulus.”