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When Marie Diamond was 15, she was run over by a truck near her home in Bruges, Belgium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had already covered me with a sheet,\u201d she says. \u201cMy father thought I was gone. I was hovering outside my body, watching everything \u2013 the ambulance, my mother arriving. Then I moved through what felt like different dimensions into a space of light.\u201d<\/p>\n
There, she says, she encountered \u201cnine beings \u2013 like angels\u201d, who told her: \u201cYou have to go back. You\u2019re here to reach 500 million people.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was right,\u201d she says. \u201cI hated my room. I had nightmares.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n