Ever heard of the scientist whose consciousness research got picked up by intelligence agencies—then vanished in America's worst aviation disaster?

Itzhak Bentov. Born in Czechoslovakia, made his mark in Israel, then landed in the States where he turned bio-medical engineering on its head. Guy didn't just tinker with devices. He built frameworks for understanding human consciousness that caught some very serious attention.

The model he developed? It became reference material for specialized programs. The kind that don't make headlines. His work bridged hard science and metaphysics in ways most academics wouldn't touch.

Then came the crash. The deadliest one on U.S. soil at the time. And just like that, Bentov's story got buried under tragedy.

What makes someone's ideas valuable enough to archive, yet their story barely gets told? Food for thought when you're thinking about whose innovations actually shape how we see reality.