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Hello, darkness, my outdated pal…. It’s Aaron Rodgers.
As hypothesis swirls as to what the long run holds for the Green Bay Packers quarterback, Rodgers is taking a singular route to determining his path, by getting into a four-day “darkness retreat” not lengthy after the Super Bowl.
“I’ve got a pretty cool opportunity to do a little self-reflection in some isolation, and then after that I feel like I’ll be a lot closer to a final, final decision,” four-time MVP Rodgers stated in an look on the Pat McAfee show Tuesday.
Rodgers stated he will be in whole darkness for 4 days and nights – although he may depart at any level if he needs to accomplish that – and added that the entire expertise can produce hallucinations related to the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
“It’s four nights of complete darkness … You’re not locked in. You can leave if you can’t do it. You can just walk out the door. It’s a darkness retreat,” he stated, including that it’s one thing he’s wished to do for years. “I’ve had quite a lot of mates who’ve completed it and had some profound experiences.
“It’s just sitting in isolation, meditation, dealing with your thoughts,” he added. “It stimulates DMT, so there can be some hallucinations in there, but it’s just kind of sitting in silence, which most of us never do. We rarely even turn our phone off or put the blinds down to sleep in darkness. I’m really looking forward to it.”
Rodgers has beforehand mentioned utilizing ayahuasca – a psychedelic drink manufactured from Amazonian crops – in a retreat throughout an offseason, and the NFL has confirmed this didn’t violate its drug coverage.
This yr’s darkness retreat comes at a time of uncertainty for the 39-year-old Rodgers – although he signed a bumper contract extension with the Packers final yr, hypothesis has swirled as to the place he will be plying his commerce subsequent season. There has additionally been speak of his departure from the Packers, the one group he has ever performed for since he joined from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005.
To prime it off, the Packers missed out on the NFL Playoffs for the primary time since 2018.
When requested in regards to the prospect of retirement, Rodgers replied: “It’s a real thing, 100 percent.”
He added: “That’s why I think its it’s going to be important to get through this week and to take my isolation retreat and just to be able to contemplate all things my future and then make a decision that I feel like is best for me moving forward, and in the highest interest of my happiness and then move forward.”