We had the honor of welcoming New York Times bestselling author Norman Ohler to Beond.
Excerpted from Norman Ohler’s personal reflection:
Beond has a good name. It hits the mark, and somehow sums everything up. This place is beond description, beond expectations, even beond itself. It’s the kind of venue I first envisioned in my twenties, when I began exploring psychedelics and realized that we humans no longer have proper ritual spaces where powerful substances can be administered in a responsible, respectable and truly healing way.
We do them at parties, in clubs, alone, with friends, in nature, in small retreat groups perhaps — but the deeply complex matter of facilitating a transformational experience has been missing its framework for centuries, mostly because these substances have become illegal almost everywhere.
In the past, humankind built sites like Chavín, Eleusis, or Göbekli Tepe; we had the mushroom rituals in the mountains of Mesoamerica, the cactus temples, and so on.
So what is Beond?
Is it — as I hoped — a contemporary ritualistic space where profound healing can occur through intense transformation using the strongest medicine on earth, Ibogaine?
First and foremost, Beond is a clinic. Thirteen doctors are on staff, countless nurses, and an impressive lineup of medical equipment: heart monitors, EKGs, blood-pressure cuffs, IVs, and other devices continuously measuring the health of the people here — who are not called patients, but guests.
Second, there is a full wellness and therapy protocol: massages, aqua-bodywork, breathwork, creative sessions like making one’s own ritual candle.
His full reflection on this experience is now live on his Substack, Stoned Sapiens.
