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Aaron Rodgershas plans for the off-season — and they include indulging in psychedelic drugs.
During his regular appearance onThe Pat McAfee ShowTuesday, the New York Jets quarterback showed his appreciation for ayahuasca, but did not go so far as to endorse it to the greater public.
“I definitely encourage people to look into it,” the 40-year-old NFL star said. “I don’t think it’s smart to maybe recommend it because people always want to blame other people for certain things, but I can speak for my own experience it was life-changing, has been life-changing, and it is something that I look forward to doing in some form or fashion this off season as well.”
Rodgers added, “I’m sure there’ll be some sort of ceremony this off season, I’m not sure what medicine, but there’ll be something.”
The iconic QB — who spent his first year with the Jets sidelined after tearing his achilles in the season opener — has long been an aficionado of alternative medicine, and famously participated in a solo darkness retreat last off-season.
Rodgers reportedly stayed in a 300-square-foot room that was partially underground and devoid of light at a southern Oregon facility for four days and four nights in “darkness isolation” last February.
The experience — which came as Rodgers mulled if he would return to the NFL — was trajectory-altering for the athlete, and he later made the move to New York after 18 seasons with the Green Bay Packers.
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“I found a deeper self love,” Rodgers said about taking both ayahuasca — a psychoactive brewed drink from South America — and psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance found in certain types of mushrooms. “It unlocked that whole world of what I’m really here to do is to connect, to connect with those guys, and to make those bonds and to inspire people.”
“I definitely had a major fear of death,” Rodgers said last December. “Ayahuasca and psilocybin really helped me with that.”
He added, “When you’ve seen the other side, it makes the idea of death more of a passage and less of an ending and more so the next chapter of life.”
source: people.com
