When previous Buffalo Bill Jordan Poyer heard New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers proclaim the advantages of ayahuasca on The Pat McAfee Show in 2023 he was suspicious– however captivated. Poyer had actually been battling with his marital relationship and his healing from alcohol addiction, and after hearing Rodgers talk about “plant medication”– as the psychedelic brew is frequently explained amongst acolytes– he chose to provide it a shot, to obviously life-altering outcomes. Poyer passes on all this in the current Netflix documentary Aaron Rodgers: Enigmawhich takes a look at the secret of the potentially retiring Super Bowl champ.
Rodgers isn’t simply any professional athlete partaking in psychedelics and motivating others to do the exact same. He appears to be drawn to fringe ideas: He’s revealed anti-vax views and is a buddy of public health conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He’s supposedly revealed interest in 9/11 and Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, the latter of which he has actually rejected. He thinks that HIV/AIDS was created by the federal government. The 41-year-old self-professed perfectionist’s interest for ayahuasca, in specific, feels foreseeable for a progressively traditional classification of guys he represents: rich men who are consumed with self-improvement and rely on their own “research study” to a typically unpleasant degree.
A growing number of tech CEOs, like OpenAI’s Sam Altman, have actually raved about the “transformative” experience of taking ayahuasca, which has actually apparently increased their performance, imagination, and management abilities. Questionable bro-science guys like spiritual health supporter Aubrey Marcus (likewise in Rodgers’s documentary) have actually revealed comparable interest. Marcus, who composed the self-help books Own the Day, Own Your Life and Master Your Mind, Master Your Lifejust recently made a movie about the psychedelic routine. Elon Musk and questionable computer system researcher Lex Fridman took it together. Conclusive “podcast brother” Joe Rogan has actually been a supporter of ayahuasca for several years.
Still, the drug appears to have actually reached some sort of cultural tipping point. Even movie and tv have actually seen their reasonable share of males tripping out on the drug just recently, from Oscar-bait films like Queer to semi-prestige programs like Market to cast members on Bravo truth reveals, generally illustrating the paradoxically “womanly” drug being taken by guys.
While there are some noteworthy ladies who’ve taken part in ayahuasca routines– consisting of comic Chelsea Handler, who stated it led her to look for treatment, and Lindsay Lohan, who stated it “altered her life”– the significantly male pop cultural footprint of ayahuasca usage in Western culture has actually just recently offered the ancient drug a more negative track record.
Commonly understood as yage, ayahuasca has actually been utilized for thousands of years by Indigenous individuals in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. The bitter-tasting natural beverage is made by boiling stem and bark from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, which includes the strong hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Understood for its purgative qualities,
