A Specialized Program for Veterans

Because at home most of it still sits behind clinical trials with narrow entry criteria, long waiting lists, or a price that rules it out. Costa Rica has private programs you can actually book, with individual support, and the setting does some of the work itself. Part of the country is one of the world’s Blue Zones, where people live unusually long lives on unremarkable things: moving, eating well, being outdoors, staying connected to other people. Leaving your own surroundings matters more than most people expect it to. What to compare between providers is the screening, the training behind it, what preparation you get, and how long the integration runs. Not the destination.

No. Nothing about your service, your deployment, or anything else has to be said out loud if you do not want to say it. Intake asks about medical history, medication, where you are now, and what you want out of the work. Some veterans go through their service in detail during preparation or integration. Others never name it, and the program is the same either way. Our job is to hold the space, not to walk you back through it. What needs to surface tends to surface without being forced. You set what gets shared, what gets explored, and how fast any of it moves.

Not in the way that word usually gets used. Personal consumption is not treated as a crime under Costa Rican law, and there is no licensing regime for psychedelic retreats in either direction, which is the grey area every centre in the country works inside. No licensing regime is not the same thing as formal authorisation, and the picture can change. Costa Rica also has a long history of plant-medicine practice behind it, and that is why the in-person part of an Oneness program happens there. It tells you nothing about the law where you live. Oneness does not supply, ship or sell any substance, and carrying anything home is a serious offence in most countries.