An Interview with Robert Beer
Dr. Robert E. Svoboda

Robert Svoboda: If you could start off just by speaking a little about your background and what brought you to where you are.
Robert Beer: What brought me to where I am? Going back right to the beginning?
RS: Far enough back as seems useful.
RB: Basically the strongest event of my childhood was the death of my sister, who died when I was fourteen. She died of hydrocephalus when she was three years old; her head grew to an enormous size and was filled with cerebrospinal fluid. She was kind of the center of the family, and because of this our whole family broke up soon after her death. Two days after she died, I had a dream in which my sister and I were flying through the sky together, and she was no longer deformed; she was actually perfect in form; it was so real. As we were flying together through a very beautiful clear sky I heard a church bell ringing, and then I woke up to our doorbell ringing; it was my mother and father just coming back from church...

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