Cialdini raamat
and interpretation among the group, gained new significance when they began to
foretell of a great impending disaster-a flood that would begin in the Western
Hemisphere and eventually engulf the world. Although the cultists were under-
standably alarmed at first, further messages assured them that they and all those
who believed in the lessons sent through Mrs. Keech would survive. Before the
calamity, spacemen were to arrive and carry off the believers in flying saucers to a
place of safety, presumably on another planet. Very little detail was provided about
the rescue except that the believers were to make themselves ready for pickup by
rehearsing certain passwords to be exchanged ("I left my hat at home." "What is
your question?" "I am my own porter.") and by removing all metal from their
clothes-because the wearing or carrying of metal made saucer travel "extremely
dangerous."