Aaron Rodgers Believes He's A Butterfly While High On Ayahuasca In Wild Video
12/18/2024 10:56 PM
The new Netflix series Aaron Rodgers: Enigmahas really exposed all of us to some of the wilder sides of the New York Jets quarterback's personal life, including his fondness for the psychoactive beverage, ayahuasca.
A clip from the show features Rodgers sitting at an ayahuasca circle while in a Brazilian jungle surrounded by others. After ingesting some, Rodgers becomes significantly more jolly than usual. That's when he starts really letting his mind expand.
Rodgers imagines himself being a butterfly, calling himself a caterpillar that has just sprouted wings and becomes excited at the idea of getting to fly, smell flowers and eat flowers every single day.
"A butterfly is just another term for the caterpillar. It's really the caterpillar the entire time. And the caterpillar opens his wings and just cannot (expletive) believe this is my life now!" Rodgers says as he smiles and gets more excited. "I get to fly around. I get to smell flowers and eat flowers. To live like that, living your wildest dreams every single day..."
𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: Aaron Rodgers high on AYAHUASCA in Brazil talking about living like a BUTTERFLY.
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) December 19, 2024
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Ayahuasca is known for its psychoactive properties and while it can alter perception in ways that even other drugs can't, it has no shortage of dangers too if not ingested properly. The beverage is illegal in the United States, so he (hopefully) Rodgers hasn't been bringing any home with him.
But even assuming Rodgers has been consuming it in a controlled environment like in the video, it certainly explains a lot as far as how assertive he's been on his viewpoints about the world which others may disagree with.
That said, no amount of ayahuasca is capable of making him see his season with the Jets as anything other than a disappointment.
Rodgers was so bad early in the season that the Jets fired both head coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas in the middle of the season.
While his numbers have improved in recent weeks, it's too little too late as the Jets have long-since been eliminated from playoff contention and head into an offseason of uncertainty.
Perhaps another trip to Brazil will give him the clarity to realize that he's just not the right fit for New York anymore.
