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Bryon Kurt Ehlmann (born September 1948) is a retired Professor of Computer Science and now an independent researcher. As a professor, he authored over thirty articles and a book on computer database design. In retirement (beginning January 2012), he refocused his research and analysis skills toward psychology, philosophy, and religion, particularly cognitive science and near-death studies. His work led to the development of the theory of natural eternal consciousness (NEC), also known as the NEC theory, which posits a natural afterlife. Ehlmann is the author of three journal articles and a book, A Natural Afterlife Discovered: The Newfound, Psychological Reality That Awaits Us at Death, about the NEC theory and natural afterlife. [1, 2, 3,4]

Ehlmann was born and raised in St. Charles, Missouri. He attended Immanuel Lutheran School and graduated from St. Charles High School. In 1970, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Missouri at Rolla (now known as the Missouri University of Science and Technology), graduating first in his class. Awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship, he earned his MS in Computer Science in 1971 from the same university. In 1992, he earned his PhD in Computer Science from Florida State University.

Ehlmann 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 with the Employee Exemplary Action Award for developing the menu-based user interface for operating Unisys' large mainframe computers.

Ehlmann 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 published thirty-two computer science peer-reviewed articles and a book on database development, titled Object Relationship Notation (ORN): Enhancing and Modeling the Implementation of Associations. [5] From 1980 to 1985, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Chapman University (previously Chapman College). In January 2012, he retired as a Full Professor from both Florida A&M University and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

In retirement, Ehlmann’s computer science background and refocused research into cognitive science, consciousness, and near-death experiences led him to develop a life-time-eternity model of consciousness and the theory of a natural afterlife, which he later replaced by the more general theory of a natural eternal consciousness (NEC). The model and the theories are the subject of three published psychology journal articles and a book. [1 2 3 4]

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Selected Publications

B.K. Ehlmann, "Designing Software to be Used Up (and Protecting It from Pirates)", ACM SIGSMALL Newsletter, August 1985.

B.K. Ehlmann, "Applying an Object-oriented Database Model to a Scientific Database Problem: Managing Experimental Data at CEBAF," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, MI, FSUCS Tech. Report 92-041, April 1992.

B.K. Ehlmann, L.C. Dennis, and G.A. Riccardi, "An Object-based Conceptual Model of a Nuclear Physics Experiments Database," Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Elsevier Science Publishers, North-Holland, Vol. A325, Nos. 1 & 2, Feb. 1993, pp. 294-308.

B.K. Ehlmann and G.A. Riccardi, “A Comparison of ORN to Other Declarative Schemes for Specifying Relationship Semantics,” Information and Software Technology, Elsevier Science, 38(7), July 1996, pp. 455-465.

B.K. Ehlmann and G.A. Riccardi, "An Integrated and Enhanced Methodology for Modeling and Implementing Object Relationships," Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, SIGS Publications, New York, NY, 10(2), May 1997, pp. 47-55.

B.K. Ehlmann, N. Rishe, and J. Shi, “The Formal Specification of ORN Semantics,” Information and Software Technology, Elsevier Science, Vol. 42, No. 3, February 25, 2000, pp. 159-170.

B.K. Ehlmann, G.A. Riccardi, N.D. Rishe, and J. Shi, “Specifying and Enforcing Association Semantics via ORN in the Presence of Association Cycles,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2002, pp. 1249-1257.

B.K. Ehlmann, “Association patterns for data modeling and definition,” Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal, 26(1), pp. 59 - 86, 2011.

References

1. ”Bryon Ehlmann ORCID Profile". ORCID. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

2. Home Page of Bryon K. Ehlmann, Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Retrieved 14 June 2025

3. Ehlmann, B. K. (2009). Object relationship notation (ORN) for database applications: Enhancing the modeling and implementation of associations. Springer.

4. Ehlmann B. K. (2016). "The Theory of a Natural Afterlife: A Newfound, Real Possibility for What Awaits Us at Death”. Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, 7(11): 931–950. http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/618/632

5. Ehlmann B. K. (2020). "The Theory of a Natural Eternal Consciousness: The Psychological Basis for a Natural Afterlife". Journal of Mind and Behavior. 41(1) 53–80. https://jmb-online.com/pdf/03/JMB-41-1-2020-004.pdf

6. Ehlmann B. K. (2022). "The Theory of a Natural Eternal Consciousness: Addendum". Journal of Mind and Behavior". 43(3): 185–204. https://jmb-online.com/pdf/03/JMB-43-3-2022-002.pdf