You may have seen people bow to their parents, to the victims in a genocide, or seen a prostration in another context, during family or systemic constellations. Depending on the sorts of things you have seen in the cultural environment you come from, this may seem like a natural gesture of honor and humility. It may also seem strange, servile, or even dangerous. When I think of acts of reverence like this, I often wonder about the confusion that happened in western society in