Green Bay Packers quarterbackAaron Rodgersisn’t holding back regarding his passion for psychedelics.
While appearing on this week’s episode ofThe Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers again touted his use of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brewed drink from South America, and psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance found in certain types of mushrooms.
“I definitely had a major fear of death,” Rodgers, 39, said on the show. “Ayahuasca and psilocybin really helped me with that.”
The reigning NFL MVP discussed the psychedelics after co-host A.J. Hawk asked him if he was “scared of dying.”
“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,” he added.
The 39-year-old went on to clarify that he wasn’t talking about “life and death,” but more about “the veil between the seen world and the unseen world,” to which McAfee responded, “that’s sweet, dude.”
While Rodgers has said that he believes “ayahuasca is not a drug,” theAlcohol and Drug Foundationlists it as a “plant-based psychedelic” that can affect a person’s thinking, sense of time, and emotions. Ayahuasca contains the active ingredientN,N-Dimethyltryptamine(DMT), which is a banned Schedule I drug, according toDouble Blind.
Rodgers told McAfee earlier this year that he believes calling it a drug creates “a certain bias” toward it.
“I do think it’s important to go on this ridiculous tangent how words are used to create bias,” he said in September. “Those biases create fears and those fears prevent people from doing their own research or having their own idea and truth in a situation.”
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Rodgers has also previously told theAubrey Marcus Podcastthat ayahuasca helped him “unconditionally love” others.
“To me, one of the core tenets of your mental health is that self-love,” Rodgers told Marcus, who founded the supplement company, Onnit. “That’s what ayahuasca did for me, was help me see how to unconditionally love myself.”
“It’s only in that unconditional self-love, that then I’m able to truly be able to unconditionally love others,” he added. “And what better way to work on my mental health than to have an experience like that?”
source: people.com
