Foundation for Mind-Being Research

I was introduced to Dean as a practicing cardiac anesthesiologist looking for a computer solution to the vagaries of obtaining payment for my efforts to be useful to mankind. Dean had then only recently left SRI and formed Picodyne. He came to my home office for the first meeting and just sat and watched my wife do her work of billing and collecting for my labors that kept me away from the family for insanely long hours. That power of observing life and synthesizing the identified components into the question that begged for solution was in synchrony with my approach to removing people from the autonomous state and creating total dependence on my and my gadgets. I was taught early in my medical career that it is not possible to make a diagnosis of a human condition if one is not aware of that diagnosis. Just as Dean sought knowledge in its many forms and applications in order to solve the questions that constantly bombarded his active mind.

I will never forget the joy that Dean expressed one day when he defined a problem in developing code for my office system. It involved the conversion of the time factors of my billing into the standard conversion symbols. He called and came to the house with a single line of code that barely made it more than an inch from the left margin.

Some of the most peaceful hours of life in those days were spent driving down back 280, California sunshine squinting our eyes, the richness of the landscape and hills, and the two of us dreaming up future projects that could help us serve. One day Dean informed me (it was the early 80's) that we were going through the age of automated information management but the new century would find genetics as the major intellectual achievement. We are forever students and Dean was an incomparable teacher.

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'Look right to God or be left to Hell'
Delfin J Beltran MD
POB 785
Andover KS 67002-0785
djbltrn797@sbcglobal.net