Kevin Beers - Working with His Portals (An Owner’s Guide)

Step-by-step instructions on how to work with the Kevin Beers Portals together with a brief description of a personal journey.

Manana Island, Kevin Beers

INTRODUCTION

I've met several Beers owners now that didn’t know how to access his Portals - or in some cases that they existed in the first place. I thought it would be instructive to outline step-by-step instructions on how to work with them and then share my personal experience of traveling through the Manana Island portal.

The traveler will, of course, need to have spent time on Monhegan to have the memories to travel back to. The stronger one's connection to the emotional life of the island, and the earlier the age of one's first visit, the more straightforward the navigation. Simply standing on Swim Beach as an eleven-year-old is pointless if you’ve never been to Monhegan (Manana’s sister island) to begin with.

The painting Manana Island — displayed above — provides the easiest access for me, but finding your own reliable portal is unique to you. For this reason, I’m including additional portals throughout. Experiment with each of them. Find one that moves …