Author Biography
AWEtizm: A Hidden Key to Our Spiritual Magnificence is cowritten by Gayle Barkley Lee and Lyrica Mia Marquez with contributing writers Leslie Rau, Kellen Hunt, and Sara Orah. Gayle has dedicated her life to autism and spiritual development. Her undergraduate degree in religion, master's degree in social work, and professional certification as a metaphysical minister and a spiritual healer and teacher support this work. Yet, she honors her autistic daughter, Lyrica, and autistic friends Leslie, Kellen, and Sara, as her most profound teachers. Lyrica, Leslie, Kellen, and Sara have lived their lives in silence, unable to verbally communicate. However, at age eight, Lyrica taught her a supported typing process that has empowered her and the others to share profound revelations. To Gayle, autistic souls are spiritual savants with much to teach us about autism, the human soul, and the Higher Mysteries.
