ABOUT THE AUTHOR Writer Avis Baum is also a painter, teacher, and intuitive whose practice is designed to assist people in going within in order to discover who they are and why they are here. Born in Cuba, she grew up in Lima, Peru, and in the United States, and has lived in London as well as the US. After graduating from Smith College, she attained the distinction of becoming the youngest vice-president of the Bank of Boston, New York, later retiring to raise her children. During that period she had the series of near-death experiences she writes about in You Are the One, dying and returning...