Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humbled folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority

To avoid appearing too curious
too available
too interested,
too assertive

To avoid peculiarly anthropocentric temptations
of sexual violence, and envy, and possibly gossip
(although I do wonder what crows crow about)

To avoid that part of our Anthropocene reality show
only meant for the real influential adults
in their exclusive clan rooms,
on private cult screens
and sold out monoculturing stages

Creeping across hedge and boundary and caste issues
of whom is worthy to be seen
and who is best with eyes cast down.

Black sons and brown daughters of enslavement
were taught custody of the eyes
and listening ears,
and curious nose,
and capable hands,
and impassioned mouths,
and preferably illiterate minds,
because what may be nutritious for Western White
Christian Right Entitlement folks
could become inappropriately dangerous power
for nonWhite dependent pagan nonfolks.

Custody of the senses, including the eyes,
a form of risk management

Precisely what healthy, curious polyamorous people
would never ever choose to do,
to enrich not only our own courageous multiculturing eyes,
but also to do our part to facilitate
therapeutic opening of our EarthTribe extended families’
ecologically deep-nurtured,
bicamerally intelligent eyes.

Custody of the eyes,
risk-management,
anger-management,
fear and terror management,
do not invite curiosities of caste-free compassion,
invitations,
attempted creolizations

Mutual gratitude for still emerging sacred-cooperative humanity,
natural/spiritual dignity,
integration of our potential
for more regenerative,
self/other acclimating,
EarthTribe’s SecularCrown/SacredRoot
polycultural health
polyvagal Win/Win integrity.

George Lakoff reminds us that
“Most people’s first [custodial] experience with governance
[of the eyes and all that neuro/eco-system that lies behind]
is in their family.”

Extending this family’s self-governing timeline,
back to embryonic beginnings,
Pre-LeftDominant language development
feels this is where our within-matriarchal belonging
and safe governance
experience first began,
then out, from there,
casting a LeftBrain dominant Ego Custodian,
bicamerally restructuring resonant v dissonant cobinary polarities,
but also stepping back through upcaste v downcaste time,

Now,
suddenly realizing this bicameral-nurturing Ego’s
freedom of eye
and anthropocentric mind
and ears for those who can yet hear
Gaia’s pronoia vocation
toward polycultural ecosystemic wealth
polyvagal neurosystemic health

Caste-held conserve v progress senses
never working with fully integrated consciousness
while confined to custody
of one monopolistic Ego Identity’s marginalized,
repressed,
suppressed
depressed
not truly impressed
custodial eyes.

“Your parents govern you: they tell you what to do,
what’s good for you and bad for you,
and what’s good for the family;”

and, if you are of great glad good health fortune,
how to deep nurturingly learn to love self/other compassion,
and why we take care of our health best together,
unblinded to WinUpper/WinLower caste regeneratively

Rather than RightWing systemic trauma,
leaning toward fearsome sociopathology,
expecting lesser paranoid beings to practice
custody of the eyes
and to respect upper-caste rights to enforce
condemning lower-caste violence
against less enlightened minds
and too-liberally empowered bodies.

“In a family,
the means of making sure they [custodial norms] are carried out
are, positively,
by expressing affection”

and co-empathic curiosity of mind,
seeing with new caste-abolishing eyes
about appositional differences,
polycultural integrity,
organic plurality,
branches of a symbiotic EarthTribe
extending back through wide open
wilderness time.

“and, negatively,
by withdrawing affection,
social isolation [such as custody of the eyes],
denying [caste-abolishing] desires,
instilling domesticating guilt or shame,
or physical force.”

“The [caste-preserving]Governing Institution…is the Family”
extended to include all of Gaia’s pantheistic tribes

“The Governing Individual…is a [BiCameral] Parent”
including too-often suppressed nurturing,
co-empathic,
co-redemptive pleasure sharers

“Those Governed…are Family Members”
responsible abd responsive
polypathically democratic
practicing custody of polyphonic senses
personal and political climate healing potential
regenerative caste-liberation,
rather than degenerative eyes cast-down preservation

No longer cowed and commodified and controlled
by custody of the monotheistic only way

Instead, wu-wei co-operating eyes,
free to look out and up
recreate our renewing neuro/eco-systemic
Gaia Win/Win Hypothesis Show.

Freedom from cast-down custody
is also bicameral freedom to customize,
to acclimate to our shared primal creolizing climate
of mutually cooperative health and environmental safety,
co-empathic trust

Wide-eyed wonder
with all neurosensory communicators,
living within democratically healthy communities.