In a world where everything seems fake and full of deceitful illusions, where we feel too enslaved to find pleasure, Jean Testanière breaks free from barriers and moves towards the truth beyond appearances and our current understanding of the world we live in.
Inner virtue is often corrupted by the outer. But this intimate richness, as imprecise, fleeting and vague as our feelings, can be illuminated and ultimately become our guiding light.
And so begins a beautiful tale that places us at a spiritual crossroads, where symbolism teaches us that in order to find ourselves, we must first lose ourselves.
Since the age of six, Jean has blossomed into a life out of the ordinary.
He perceives events before they happen, sees entities that have left this world and are still present, and hears the voices of those who have passed on who want to be besides their loved ones.
For seventy years, he has maintained an uninterrupted dialogue with the beyond, to assure us that there is another version of the world than the one we know.
He whispers to us. It's not a secret, but a revelation he wants to share with as many people as possible because his words allow us to recognize what life is really is and about.
It’s not about financial success, as he has never turned it into a profession. While some want wealth, fame and success, Jean only wants to offer the luxury of his knowledge that life doesn’t end with death, and that this is only one stop along our journey. He wants everyone to discover that life is a constant source of astonishment, discovery and growth.
Anyone who has spoken with Jean can attest to his ability to open your mind and vision about what the purpose of life is. He reveals a new dimension to which we know nothing.
One that can teach us a new meaning of our lives. He dispels the darkness that blinds us, and frees us from the fear of the total nothingness of death. Overcoming the enemy of fear, gives us the freedom to act and live more fulfilling lives.
But don’t be mistaken, this life spent helping people hasn’t been smooth and painless.
He too has known his share of wounds, humiliation and loneliness. He didn't choose this anomaly of being in the “middle”, between the heavens and earth. He gradually accepted it in order to help others.
He guides the destitute, the downtrodden, the marginalized towards the light, helping to spread happiness and self-esteem. He doesn’t just illuminate, but fortifies your beliefs and presence in this world, making your existence simpler and freer.
From this endless cycle of desire, satisfaction, and boredom that make up our vain earthly trajectory, Jean gives us a good reason to stop looking. To stop wandering.
To stop being shipwrecked on this ocean of futility and catastrophe.
He, who lives on the shores of the Mediterranean, gives us a positive signal from up high in the skies, and it feels good.
It's a celebration of the life that goes on afterwards, beyond which there are many who await us.
To deepen the mystery, we still need to find the link between the small “I” of each of us and the celestial grandeur, for there is an energetic bridge between our material world and the more spiritual, more indescribable world in which the absent ones find themselves.
Between doubt and the certainty that constitutes us, there is a breath.
It's the breath that makes us live to believe, at last, in the truth of the unknown.
That which we do not see, but which nevertheless exists, and which Jean calls the force of heaven.
Julien and Aline Testanière are delighted to announce the birth of their son Jean, Antonin, Julien in Toulon. It was an “en caul birth” which means he was wrapped in “Mother Mary’s Mantle”. It’s a special birth where the amniotic sac doesn’t burst and the baby is born “en caul” — completely inside a jelly-like bubble. It’s considered a good omen, the expression of an extraordinary destiny, and the mark of unprecedented good fortune.
He is the youngest of three siblings. Marcelle is the elder sister. Mireille is the youngest.
1954 – Death of Julien Testanière. Jean is 6 years old.
“All my life I have endeavored to follow in the steps of my father, whose profession as a bailiff had brought him into close contact with misery in its most banal and cruel forms. He insisted that my sisters and I do everything we could to find a permanent job, and never let ourselves be guided by greed.”
1955 – First appearance at age 7.
“I see a figure dressed in blue floating above the sanctuary of Notre Dame du Laus”.
1957 –From the age of 9, he could “guess the color of any object with his eyes closed”.
1958 –At the age of 10, “I developed an epidermal reaction to adults in whom I detected lies, hypocrisy or malice”.
1960 –He entered Collège La Chesneraie in 6th grade. A school that offered a pedagogy far removed from conventional practices with small classes, adapted to students' rhythms and needs. The school's ambition was to develop each student's potential and strengthen the bonds of brotherhood between boarders.
1961 – 13 years-old. Jean coaches his older sister in her preparations for the CREPS competitive examination.
After synchronized swimming competitions, Marcelle becomes a gymnastics teacher. As for Mireille, she became a top-level athlete. She won the gold medal at the 1970 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna.
1963 – “Nine years after my father's funeral, I was still trying to find out a little more about the circumstances of his death. Jean was experiencing growth problems and anxiety attacks. Professor V. prescribed a course of hormones.
The night before I was admitted to hospital to assess the maturation of my skeleton, a soft, clear voice echoed in the silence of the night: “Don't worry, Jean, I'll be fine. That same year, on his 15th birthday, Jean's mother took him to see clairvoyants Germaine Lanteri and Irma Salmeron to confirm her suspicions and her son's abilities.
1964 – “Predictions become more regular and accurate. It bothered me less and less. My mother used to invite her relatives to test my recent prowess.“ His schooling was chaotic and unstable, and as a result, he had to repeat the fourth grade after repeating the fourth and seventh grades. He entered the Collège Beaussier in La Seyne sur Mer. The local school exempts him from boarding. He slept in his own bed every night, devoting all his free time to music, his new passion. Il fait son entrée au collège Beaussier de la Seyne sur Mer. Établissement implanté dans sa commune le dispense d’internat. Il dort chaque soir dans son lit et consacre tout son temps libre à la musique, sa nouvelle passion. “To conform to the standards of the time, I reinforced my resemblance to Sacha Distel. “This gift developed a little more every day. I anticipated the course of my days. I didn't need to concentrate or go into a trance; all I had to do was envision the scene and the details would flash into my head.
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1966 –18 years-old. He tells his sister Marcelle in advance the order of arrival of the synchronized swimming teams at her competitions.
1968 –20 Years-old. He takes a technology course, 11th grade at the Lycée Marie Curie.
1969 –At this time, the oldest age was set at 21. “I was no longer legally obliged to go to school. I left the school system. I found myself on the job market without really knowing what I wanted to do." He opted for the job of animator, which was not conditional on obtaining the Baccalauréat. “I wanted to answer the children's questions, which were also my own at that age, and pass on some knowledge to them. I saw it as a good way of transforming the suffering of my middle and high school years into a constructive experience... resilience before its time”.
1969 to 1974 – His maternal uncle Joseph, a team leader, sent him to the military testing center on the Ile du Levant in the Var region of France. His mission was to film missile launches. “Once again, I was the black sheep of the group, the nice guy but a bit of a troublemaker, whom people prefer to avoid.“ At the same time, Jean takes correspondence courses at the CNED to pass his baccalaureate and become a teacher.
1971 – 23 years-old. During a photo development course in Toulon, he meets Jean-François Rossi, “the brother that heaven gave me”.
1974 – Year of revelation and acceptance. “I finally understood where I'd come from and where I was going. In reality, I was doing more than accepting, I was committing myself to spreading this divine light, to radiating it without demanding anything in return, without wanting to make a living out of it, nor to monetize it. That would be my purpose in life.“
1974 –Jean registers for the baccalauréat for the fourth time as an independent candidate.
1975 –At the age of 27, he passes his baccalauréat as an independent candidate, with 19/20 in maths, 15 in French, 18 in history and eleven in philosophy.
1976 –Appointed primary school teacher. First post in a center for the intellectually disabled. He moved from the Var to Essonne, where he attended the École Nationale de Perfectionnement d'Ollainville. “The days were intense and athletic. As well as teaching them classes and organizing music, video and judo workshops, we had to constantly refocus them and act as their social worker. Countless educators were giving up, exhausted, so the director hired me to make up for the many absences and sick leaves.”
1977 –First attempt to obtain a CAP in teaching. Without this qualification, no tenure is possible.
1978 – 30 years-old. Second attempt at CAP.
“I could read through complete strangers, but I could see absolutely nothing about myself. On the banks of the Garonne I hear this voice: “Don't worry, Jean, you'll get it !“
At the age of 32, Jean passes his Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnel d'instituteur.He enriched his training at CNEFEI, now INSHEA, Institut National Supérieur Formation et Recherche Handicap et Enseignements Adaptés. He swallows paving stones on child pedagogy.
1980 – Il intègre le service du professeur Tomatis. Ce chercheur en oto-rhino-laryngologie avait mis au point une méthode de rééducation de l’oreille fondée sur la stimulation He joins Professor Tomatis' department. This ear, nose and throat researcher had developed an ear rehabilitation method based on stimulating voluntary listening. La Callas, Romy Schneider, Juliette Binoche... all these great names used his teaching method, which is still in use today.
1981 – He was only 33 when he met the new French President, François Mitterrand, through an intermediary. A decade of tête-à-tête followed.
1983 – Age 35. CAP in specialized education. Certificat d'aptitude à l'éducation des enfants et des adolescents déficients ou inadaptés.
1983 – In Bandol, on his way out of a Michel Delpech concert, Jean is involved in a car accident. He experienced his own death. “Contrary attractive forces had pulled my body in all directions. I saw myself go from gray to white, then from white to gray. No light at the end of the tunnel, no reminiscences, just the certainty of having walked on a wire above the void, without a safety net.“
1983 –He meets John Paul II.
1986 à 2000 – Becomes attaché to the territorial youth service at La Seyne-sur-mer.
1987 – His abilities strengthen. For the first time, a new door opens on the beyond, with tactile and auditory sensations rarely experienced, in great detail and realism. For the first time, a person who has passed, speaks through me. I’m his vessel. “It was my voice, but in the words of a man who had died in a diving accident. My body had never been taken over in this way. I was being taken over. Whoever took possession of me was willing to reveal truths in exchange for my cooperation. He wanted to provide answers to the great existential questions. Does God exist? How was the universe formed ? I had the feeling I was breaking an ancestral law, entering a forbidden zone with a “DANGER” sign flashing red at the entrance. What would faith be without mystery?
1990 à 2000 – A decade during which Jean continues to care for others and try to repair their wounds.
“Physical demonstrations occur when I'm in contact with those affected by pathology. My left hand starts to swell when I come into contact with them. Heaven gave me the power to turn the tide of disease. I was not, nor did I want to become, a guru or one of those spiritual masters that the media sometimes portrayed.“
1994 – During a hypnosis session, Jean made an astral journey. He returns with the confirmation that we have many lives, and therefore that we are many in one body.
2000 – Lors d’une nuit il fait un cauchemar prémonitoire. Il voit sa mère tomber malade. Il ne lui reste plus longtemps à vivre.
2001 – Aline Testanière dies at 82.
2001 – A few months after her funeral, Aline Testanière “torments” Jean's neighbor, Mme Damour, who fears she will go mad when she hears her voice.
2001 – “In September, one night, as I got up to quench my thirst, I heard my mother's voice: Jean, turn around, don't be afraid. She's standing there in front of me. She made me understand that she had transgressed the prohibitions to join me.“ rejoindre ».
2006-2008 – Assigned to Levallois-Perret Town Hall as Territorial Director in the Children and Youth Department. Last position before retirement.
2022 – Publication of his book, Et si la vie n'était qu'un début. XO Éditions.
2024 –Publication of his book, Messager de l’invisible. Ouverture vers un autre monde. Éditions Robert Laffont.
Sortie en librairie du livre : Et si la vie n’était qu’un début.XO Éditions
NEWS ROOOM
His primary school teachers used to say he was always daydreaming.
On earth, fortunately, he has Jeff, pragmatic for both of them. They're yin and yang. Friends for over half a century, and even roommates for the past few years, they complement each other in the many adventures they narrate with a single voice. “My life is a patchwork quilt”, Jean jokes.
A difference that stems from an unfulfilling and lonely childhood.
The affirmation of a gift - The gift of knowledge /
“If the people who read me learn to cultivate the positive, I will have achieved my goal.”
« As a child, I spoke words, and by the age of ten I was saying all kinds of things: so-and-so died, you lost your brother, ... to people I didn't know.
By evoking in this book what I intimately consider to be a gift, I'm also immersing myself in a rather special childhood, telling the story of a rather peculiar boy uncomfortable being himself, my spiritual journey, and the friendships that this gift enabled me to forge.
I also talk about how I searched for myself, then finally found and accepted myself.
1948 – July 2nd
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