Aaron Rodgers took a psychedelic trip after a good buddy told him he wasn’t reaching his full potential, according to a new book.
In “OUT OF THE DARKNESS: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers,” (Mariner Books, out Tuesday) former Post columnist Ian O’Connor writes how Rodgers’ high-school teammate turned the 40-year-old NFL quarterback onto ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian beverage brewed with psychoactive ingredients.
In 2019, Rodgers’ good friend Jordan Russell went to the Temple of the Way of Light, a plant-medicine shamanic healing center in Iquitos, Peru. Rodgers wasn’t there in the Amazonian rain forest with him — but over five nights of doing ayahuasca, Russell says in the book, his football friend was “the star of the entire show.” Aaron Rodgers has credited ayahuasca with helping him have the best season of his career. “I saw into who Aaron is, and I saw the reason that his potential was not being met, because his potential is not who he is on the football field. That is what has given him the platform and profile to give his gift, is the way I see it,” Russell told O’Connor. “I saw him for exactly who he is and it brought me to tears. I stand in awe of him as a man, and in so many ways he’s trapped inside of his own archetype, trapped inside this shell, this ego of a famous football player, when really what he is, is a warrior of a man who has an absolutely gigantic heart and who just wants to love and be loved.”
A few months after returning from Peru, Russell relayed his experience to Rodgers while the two golfed. Scott Boras Jordan Montgomery Scottie Scheffler Scottie Scheffler That inspired Rodgers to go to Peru with his then-girlfriend, racecar driver Danica Patrick, in early 2020, according to the book. The couple had to cut the ayahuasca trip short due to the Covid-19 pandemic closing borders, but Rodgers said that even the limited encounters with the drug was life-changing.
“I really feel like that experience paved the way for me to have the best season of my career,” […]
How Aaron Rodgers got into ayahuasca — NY Jets QB’s strange trip revealed
