The Packers quarterback was locked in a 28-square-foot room in Oregon. Last year he had experimented with ayahuasca, a hallucinogen used by shamans in the Amazon
“I am a forest and a night of dark trees, but whoever is not afraid of my darkness will also find slopes of roses under my cypresses”. Nietzsche writes it in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and it can be read on the homepage of one of the sites that promote the “dark retreat”. Which has nothing to do with a blind date or a blind opening like that of poker. It is a form of meditation, which Aaron Rodgers, undoubtedly the most alternative quarterback in the NFL, has practiced in recent days.
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The Green Bay Packers star has in fact locked himself up in a 28 square meter room in Oregon to isolate himself from the outside world and take stock of his life, including his professional life. Whether he has already decided what will become of his future with the Packers, no one knows, maybe not even him. “I do it – he said – not just to think about football”. The 39-year-old, 18 NFL seasons, all with Green Bay, has a contract that binds him to the Wisconsin team also for the next season worth over 59 million dollars, guaranteed. Unless he decides to retire. But it cannot be excluded that he forces the hand of the management and asks to be sold. The New York Jets have already stepped up.
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Aaron’s spiritual retreat lasted 4 days and 4 nights. There are power sockets in the room and it is up to the guest to decide whether to turn on the light from time to time, whether to take a look at his cell phone, or whether to remain constantly in the dark. “It’s a millennia-old practice – said to ESPN Scott Berman, the owner of the structure, with three rooms, all already booked for the next 18 months – It has origins in China, India and Tibet. Even the Egyptians, the ancient Greeks, the Kogi, an indigenous people of Colombia, practiced it.” Once a day Berman brings food to the guests, food that is enough for him for 24 hours and which is passed through two doors, so as not to let in light. Last offseason Rodgers had instead experimented with ayahuasca, a psychedelic based on various Amazonian plants capable of inducing a visionary effect, used by local shamans. “After three days I came out with a lot of love for myself,” he said at the time. It would be enough for the Packers to know if he still loves the ball and if he still intends to throw it in their jersey.
February 23, 2023 (change February 23, 2023 | 17:56)
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