When Marie Diamond was 15, she was run over by a truck near her home in Bruges, Belgium.
“They had already covered me with a sheet,” she says. “My father thought I was gone. I was hovering outside my body, watching everything – the ambulance, my mother arriving. Then I moved through what felt like different dimensions into a space of light.”
There, she says, she encountered “nine beings – like angels”, who told her: “You have to go back. You’re here to reach 500 million people.” She woke from a coma three days later with a profound sense of purpose. The answer to how she would achieve it began in her bedroom.
A mentor suggested she had poor “feng shui” – a term she had never heard at the time. The Chinese philosophy emphasises spatial arrangement to maximise positive energy, balancing the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
“He was right,” she says. “I hated my room. I had nightmares.”
She switched bedrooms and introduced colours and images reflecting her goals. She was bullied at the time and drew pictures of friendship and connection. Within months, the bullying stopped and her social life transformed.