Jean-Charles Moyen is four years old, playing in the sand on a beach in France, when his mother looks away for a moment. When she looks back, he is gone. Lifeguards search for over an hour and find nothing. His parents sit on the sand, devastated. Then, without warning, Jean-Charles is standing in front of them again, as if he had never left.
During that lost hour, a hot, bright light surrounds him and lifts him off the ground. He is seated on a substance that molds to his body as he moves, and he is levitating. Four beings of light surround him, reassuring him telepathically. The communication carries a sensation of unconditional love—a heart entering his body, filling him with calm and peace. The beings are intensely bright, almost angelic. Through windows he can see space, and the Earth below, and it frightens him; he does not want to leave his parents. One of the beings places a hand on his head, seems to check something, and a moment later he is back on the beach.
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