Visions of directed evolution, whether of the humanistic, Hegelian or spiritualistic stamp, with their levels, emanations and emergent properties (emergencies!), can be intoxicating in their suggestions of a unified cosmology but always leave a sense of dissatifaction, of having missed the mark. There is an order that belongs to knowledge in which a certain state of understanding, a provisional synthesis, can stand in a relation of subsumption or comprehending embrace towards another such state. When this relation is abstracted and ontologised we get our juicy theories of everything, our sense of an order, objective at least for us. If the core of consciousness is not a holographic spark of the most fundamental ground of being, then its dignity resides in the ability to discover the laws of that ground and contemplate its own fragile relation to them. What is betrayed here is the freshness and lawlessness of the moment in pure unknowing encounter. That being precedes essence ought not to be an insight that can be theorised, but how do you arrest the process? As soon as stated the principle becomes essentialised. There is no strategy to end subsumption, it is life of the mind, or would be if the mind had ever been alive.