Editing One World Family Commune (section)

== Allen Noonan ==
Allen Noonan, who was later known as Allen Michael,<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|last=Maggio|first=Elizabeth|date=1978-07-27|title='Cosmic Messiah' has mission|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/164134963/?terms=One%20World%20Family%20Commune&match=1|access-date=2021-07-25|website=[[Newspapers.com]]|publisher=Arizona Daily Star|page=17|language=en}}</ref> was born in [[Britt, Iowa|Britt]], [[Iowa]] November 21, 1916.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tumminia|first=Diana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lteid47_0-kC&q=%22one+world+family+commune%22&pg=PA54|title=Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact|year=2007|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0858-5|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Michael|first=Allen|title=Allen Michael: His Early Life|url=https://galacticmessenger.com/allen-michael-his-early-life/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327012552/https://galacticmessenger.com/allen-michael-his-early-life/|archive-date=2021-03-27|access-date=2021-03-22|website=Galactic Messenger|language=en-US}}</ref> In his recollections he would say that as a child he received several angel visitations while playing alone.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|last=Michael|first=Allen|title=Allen Michael's Cosmic Initiation|url=https://galacticmessenger.com/allen-michaels-cosmic-initiation-2/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118133203/https://galacticmessenger.com/allen-michaels-cosmic-initiation-2/|archive-date=2021-01-18|access-date=2021-04-21|website=Galactic Messenger|language=en-US}}</ref> In high school he became a track runner and earned an athletic scholarship to [[Drake University]] which he attended for one year.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Tumminia p. 44</ref> After the war, he married his first wife Marian and moved to Long Beach, California where they lived with their three sons.<ref name=":0" /> 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. He described being enveloped by "ultraviolet light entwined with gold threads" and pulled into a spaceship, where he had a transcendental experience of being shown his entire life and made aware of spirits guiding humanity and of his own future role in that process.<ref name=":11" />

Several months after the revelations, Noonan's wife divorced him.<ref>Tumminia, p. 45.</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last1=Polcyn|first1=Greg|last2=Richardson|first2=Vanessa|title=New World Comforter, Allen Michael Noonan|url=https://dcs.megaphone.fm/GLT9698705593.mp3?key=9a1a66d5d28bda802e3a764821058475&source=3|website=Parcast, Cults Miracle Healers}}</ref> He then became involved in the [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]] community, going to conferences and interacting with prominent [[Ufology|Ufologists]] like [[George Van Tassel]], [[George Adamski]], and [[Gabriel Green (ufologist)|Gabriel Green]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>Tumminia, 46.</ref> Noonan stated that his first personal contact with alien beings happened in 1954 near [[Giant Rock]] in [[Mojave Desert]], when he had an ecstatic experience interacting with three beings that exited a landed spaceship.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Michael|first=Allen|title=First Physical ETI contact|url=https://galacticmessenger.com/allen-michael-first-physical-eti-contact/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118142334/https://galacticmessenger.com/allen-michael-first-physical-eti-contact/|archive-date=2021-01-18|access-date=|website=Gallactic Messenger}}</ref> Soon after this experience, Noonan opened a cafe-art studio in Long Beach called House of Meditation. He wrote that while successful at first he felt that it eventually attracted problematic individuals. Guided by telepathic transmission from "God Mind," Noonan left for San Francisco in 1967. In 1969 he married Dian, a member of the commune, together they had three children, the two later divorced with Dian still remaining a member of the community.<ref name=":5" />