Aaron Rodgers Says He Plans to Do More Psychedelics This Offseason
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Aaron Rodgers may have spent the current NFL season sitting on the sidelines after tearing his achilles during his first game with the New York Jets, but he is now looking ahead to the next season, and making plans to get as physically and mentally ready as possible in the meantime. For the quarterback with a deep interest in alternative medicine, that may well mean doing psychedelics.
"I'm sure there’ll be some sort of ceremony this offseason," Rodgers told Pat McAfee on Tuesday, January 2. "I'm not sure what medicine, but there'll be something."
"I definitely encourage people to look into it," he said, adding that while he is reluctant to outright recommend it, his own experience of a three-night ayahuasca ceremony was "life-changing," and stating that it is "something that I look forward to doing in some form or fashion this off season as well."
During an ayahuasca ceremony, the individual drinks hallucinogenic tea which contains the psychoactive agent DMT, under the guidance of an expert shaman. Rodgers opened up about his ayahuasca journey in a 2022 interview with Men's Health, and explained the positive effects he believes it to have had on his mental health and self-belief.
“There’s a lot of trust... And surrender, I think, is another good word," he said. "You have to surrender to the master plant teacher that is ayahuasca, and there’s naturally some fear around that. And when you do, some pretty incredible things can happen, as was evidenced by night two of my most recent journey. Night one I was still a little resistant, and night two, I fully surrendered to the process and to the master teacher, and she was benevolent in her lessons."
"There’s a lot of overall happiness that exists when you have a deeper love for yourself. It actually allows you, I feel, to give and receive love better and interact with people with less judgment and less projection," he continued. "So that’s one thing I’ve really been working on." At the time, Rodgers said he did not think he would repeat the process, but he did say: "If I feel called to sit with that plant medicine or another plant medicine, I will."
Looks like the moment has come.
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