The phrase "altogether beyond" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that something is completely outside the limits of understanding, capability, or reach.
Example: "The complexity of the universe is altogether beyond our current scientific knowledge."
Alternatives: "completely outside" or "entirely beyond".
"To get the elderly gentlemen of the archaeologists and museum experts in London to credit a fraction of what I knew to be true was a task altogether beyond my powers," he wrote.
In his influential 1974 essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?," the philosopher Thomas Nagel explained why animal experience may be altogether beyond the scope of the human imagination.
"But, then, it is argued, we must have a chaplain in the Legislature, in order to show that California is not altogether beyond the pale of civilization -- that is, we must put the cloak of piety over the Legislature elect, and pay a man to pray for our lawgivers, in order to make our characters respectable abroad.
Not surprisingly, many small companies avoid manufacturing altogether, considering it beyond their means.
But can we - or should we - aim to move beyond plastics altogether?
And their subject is not a particular culture and its accomplishments, but a world that seems to stand beyond culture altogether.
Vivek Kulkarni of Brickwork, a newish agency, says it may offer quality ratings for hospitals.Most firms are spreading beyond ratings altogether.
America's black musicians undertook much the same with jazz, encouraging free association to flow atop fixed patterns of chords or else soar beyond them altogether.
Richard Thau, then its executive director (now probably fortysomething), sent me an e-mail message saying that the word "removes the partisan construct from politics altogether — a quantum leap beyond mere bi-partisanship, which limits the discussion to areas where the two major parties can agree.
A former furniture designer, Mr. Simons said he plans to resume his men's-wear line under a different company structure at a later date, but he didn't rule out turning to women's wear or even moving beyond fashion altogether.
The huge caveats are that it is early days, and it is one thing to promote prosocial behaviour within the group, and another thing altogether to promote it beyond the group (which, of course, also has to happen for large-scale change).
