Bryon Ehlmann was born in 1948 and grew up in St. Charles, Missouri. He attended Immanuel Lutheran School and graduated from St. Charles High School. In 1970, he earned his BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri at Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), graduating first in his class. Awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship, he earned his MS degree in Computer Science in 1971 from the same university. In 1992, he earned his PhD in Computer Science from Florida State [...] worked for twelve years for Burroughs (now Unisys) Corporation doing research and development related to database management, query languages, report writing, and user interface software systems. In 1987 he was presented the Employee Exemplary Action Award for developing the menu-based user interface for the operation of Unisys large mainframe [...] worked for thirty years in academia, teaching courses and doing research in programming, database management, software engineering, user interfaces, discrete mathematics, and computer theory. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Chapman College (now Chapman University) from 1980 to 1985. In 2012, he retired as a Full Professor from both Florida A&M University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In early 2012, Bryon Ehlmann retired from academia and has since applied systems analysis, logic, and an open mind to psychology, dreams, near-death experiences, philosophy, and religion. His focus has been on the Big Questions about life and reality.