One of the primary goals of the OWF/UIC is expressed in The World Bill Of Rights written by its founder who by that time changed his name to Allen Michael.
The commune was most active in Berkeley, California where it ran the One World Family Natural Foods and Entertainment Center, a restaurant, bakery, clothing store, pizzeria, and performance hall, while living in two large, former Greek system houses.
[3] He worked as a sign painter, and after being drafted for World War II he served as a conscientious objector in a camouflage battalion in Africa.
[3] In Long Beach he continued his work as a sign painter and in 1947 when he was thirty one years old, and just before Easter Noonan had a spiritual experience while painting a billboard.
[10] Noonan preached that he was Allen Michael the New World Comforter, channeling the plan of the God Mind or Universal Mind of ETI – Extra Territorial Intelligence "setting up the world environment into creative schools of experience, providing food, clothing, shelter, care, recreation and transportation for all of the people on the planet as one family.
"[11][12][13] OFWC, like other New Age and hippie communities, was largely composed of young people, motivated by rejection of capitalism, western religion, search for closer connection to nature through macrobiotic diet and psychedelics, embracement of communal living and non-monogamous relationships.
[14][15][16] At that time OWFC actively recruited members and attained national recognition when Chip Oliver, starting linebacker for the Oakland Raiders joined the commune.
[26] One World Family Natural Foods and Entertainment Center was located in a large building on Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street in Southside part of Berkeley.
[30] At that time the popularity of University of California Greek Life was decreasing with many near campus fraternities and sororities being unable maintain their leases, and were often replaced by student cooperatives and religious organizations.
[12][32] With embracing "Holding all things in common" being one of their principles, all OWFC income was shared within the commune, no one drawing personal wages, with members performing daily 5 hour "love service" work shifts.
In 1980 Allen Michael ran for President of the United States, campaigning on cancellation of money debts and establishing of a system were everything is free and shared by everyone.
[34][40] Like other UFO religions Universal Industrial Church combines dissimilar themes with the key principles being "reincarnation, a concept called Uni-Communism, the Hegelian dialectic (Thesis, Anti-Thesis, and Synthesis), and extraterrestrial contact that will bring about the salvation of planet Earth.
"[1][41] The dialectic is based on the Bible's Book of Revelation thesis, with the Synthesis being the Galactic Elohim of Galactica serving on behalf of God Mind, Universal Christ Consciousness, Extraterritorial Intelligence (ETI).
[42][43] While Negative Energies acquiring for self without regard to the whole are channeled through such actions as the creation of the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve System, the CIA, the Secret World Government, and general destructive tendencies toward 'Babylonian usury' (capitalistic economic exploitation based on lending money at high interest rates).