Aaron Rodgers Says Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Helped Him Cure Deep Fears

Aaron Rodgers experimented with ayahuasca to help eliminate his fear of deathand learn how to love himself.

The Green Bay Packers quarterback appeared on The Pat McAfee Show, where he had no issues sharing that he partook in a psychedelic drug to help expand his mind. But to him, it was so much more.

“I definitely had a major fear of death. Ayahuasca and psilocybin really helped me with that,” he admitted, of the psychoactive brewed drink from South America, and psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance found in some types of mushrooms.

The co-host of the show, A.J. Hawk asked the athlete if he was “scared of dying.” Rodgers insisted that his fear was born a long time ago.

Rodgers admitted that around the whole Y2K debacle, when everyone was talking about death if started getting his mind going, he began thinking about death and his own mortality specifically dying at a young age.

“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.” Specifically, he wasn’t talking about “life and death” but more so, “the veil between the seen world and the unseen world.”

McAfee was inspired by Rodgers's way of thinking, “that's sweet, dude.” Rodgers went on to promote the use of Ayahuasca and claims to him, it’s not a drug.  It’s listed as a “plant-based psychedelic.”

The 39-year-old is hoping to remove the stigma around the psychedelic drug in the near future starting with taking them out of the drug category. He believes it generates “a certain bias” toward the substance.

Rodgers spoke about his use of the helpful ingredient in the past. In September he said, “I do think it's important to go on this ridiculous tangent how words are used to create bias,” he goes on to push, “Those biases create fears and those fears prevent people from doing their own research or having their own idea and truth in a situation.”

He went on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast and stressed how wonderful the drug has been for him. In addition to him learning how to “unconditionally love” himself, he believes it has been one of the best things for his own mental health.

“To me, one of the core tenets of your mental health is that self-love,” he continues, “that's what ayahuasca did for me, was help me see how to unconditionally love myself.” Rodgers has his own supplement company called Onnit and can see himself using this substance to help others.

“It's only in that unconditional self-love, that then I'm able to truly be able to unconditionally love others.” Rodgers points out, “what better way to work on my mental health than to have an experience like that?"

Followers of the show wanted to have their own Ayahuasca experience after listening to Rodgers praise it.

“Leave it to AJ to ask the best question not related to football I've heard in a while. Ive heard ayahuasca has that effect on ppl. Sounds like a good experience from wat I've heard. Ron white also says good things about it,” writes one follower.

“I wanna go wherever that is” claims another.

Are you jumping on the Ayahuasca train?