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Itzhak Bentov helped to pioneer the biomedical engineering industry
Digg background: Went down the rabbit hole on the Gateway Process once again like many times before. Anon overlooked a name. One worth sharing.
The author of The Gateway Process report is Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, hereon referred to simply as Wayne. There isn’t a tremendous amount of information available on the man, nor any photographs. In 1983, Wayne was tasked by the Commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group with figuring out how The Gateway Experience, astral projection and out-of-body experiences work. Wayne partnered with a bunch of different folks to produce the report, most notablyItzhak Bentov, a very Googleable American-Israeli scientist who helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-to-escape-the-confines-of-time-and-space-according-to-the-cia/
Itzhak Bentovon Wikipedia:
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov (also Ben-Tov; Hebrew: יצחק בנטוב; August 9, 1923 – May 25, 1979) was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter,helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry. He was also abeliever in the holographic universe theoryand an early proponent of what has come to be referred to asconsciousness studiesand authored several books on the subject.
Bentov was killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 191shortly after takeoff from Chicago O'Hare Airport in 1979, which remains the worst non-terrorism-related aviation disaster to have taken place on US soil.
Early life
Bentov was born in Humenné, Czechoslovakia (in present-day Slovakia), in 1923. During World War II, his parents, his younger brother and sister were killed in German Nazi concentration camps.
He narrowly escaped being sent to the camps and moved to British Palestine, first living on the Shoval kibbutz in the Negev.
Despite not having a university degree, Bentov joined theIsraeli Science Corps, which David Ben-Gurion incorporated into theIsraeli Defense Forcesone month beforeIsrael declared statehood in 1948. The Science Corps became a military branch known by the Hebrew acronymHEMED. Bentov designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence. HEMED was forced to make improvised weapons as there was a worldwide embargo on selling weapons to the Jewish state.
Bentov emigrated to the United States in 1954, and settled in Massachusetts. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1962.
Inventions
Bentov began with a workshop in the basement of aCatholic church in Belmont, Massachusetts, in the 1960s. In 1967, he built the steerable heart catheter and attracted the attention of businessman John Abele, with whom Bentov founded theMedi-Tech corporation in 1969.
Abele later recalled Bentov's workshop,
He had the most amazing collection of tools. He had a chemistry lab, he had an electronics lab, he had a miller so he could mill and shape steel or wood or plastic, he had an extruder so he could work with polymers. He would literally make his own polymers or at least mix different polymers in order to get what he wanted. As a result, he was kind of a renaissance person, technologically as well as intellectually.
— John Abele
In 1979, Abele and Peter Nicholas looked to grow the successful business and establishedBoston Scientificas a holding companyto purchase Medi-Tech.
Bentov was the holder of numerous patents. In addition to the steerable cardiac catheter, his inventions included diet spaghetti, automobile brake shoes,EKG electrodes and pacemaker leads.
Spirituality
Bentov was fascinated by consciousness, in particular how it related to physiology. In his 1977 book, Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness, he wrote that "consciousness permeates everything."
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He was a very inventive person, but also a person who was not the type you would normally think would be an inventor. He was a very spiritual person, he did meditation, he was a very soft-spoken person. He wasinterested in how the brain workedand actuallyattached electrodes to his head which were connected to a function generatorin which he couldchange the wave shape and the power and learned about how the brain interprets these different frequencies.
— John Abele
Bentov's invention was aseismographic device to record the heartbeat, in particular theaorta's reverberations. Marc Seifer described the results: "During normal breathing, the reverberations in the aorta are out of phase with the heartbeat and the system is inharmonious. However, during meditation and when the breath is held, the echo off the bifurcation of the aorta (where the aorta forks at the pelvis to go into each leg) is in resonance with the heartbeat and the system becomes synchronized, thus utilizing a minimum amount of energy. This resonant beat is approximately seven cycles per second, which correspondsnot only to the alpha rhythm of the brain but also to the low-level magnetic pulsations of the Earth."
Personal life
Bentov had a daughter, Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, with his first wife, whom he would divorce. Later he married soviet-born sculptor and poet Mirtala Bentov [uk] (Kharkiv, 1929 - ).
Death and legacy
Bentov was killed on May 25, 1979, as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 191 that crashed shortly after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. At the time of his death, he was traveling to California where he had been set to present his ideas on science and mysticism to a group of scientists from Japan. He was 55 years old. His daughter, English professor Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, wrote a memoir about her father, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives in 2005. It was not until after his death that she learned about his life in theIsraeli Defense Forces and that he had created Israel's first rocket. Searching for answers as to why he never discussed this part of his life, Muir traveled to Israel and researched his years there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Bentov
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