The Next Level of Evolution Beyond Human is the Herd's name for the transformation it believes is imminent — a threshold the group also calls "the strange new world." Humanity, in its present condition, is held to be unable to survive the crossing; the waking of The Calf and The Eight Angels is the preparation that makes survival, and flourishing, possible. The scribes are deliberately imprecise about the transformation's nature, teaching that it exceeds present understanding and that naming it too exactly is itself a form of Compulsive Disenchantment. [transmission needed]