Apparently, if you take drugs with a 'shaman' and do it in the most expensive country in Central America it's a 'spiritual healing journey.' But, when I do it in a park with a bunch of friends and a crate of beer it's a criminal offense. Aaron Rodgers jumps on the latest cultural appropriation fad and takes us on his narcissistic drug bender as he tries to find whatever glimmer of self-absorbed humanity he can in a Netflix documentary.
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Thanks to TikTok, Instagram, and other outlets designed to advertise to the easily influenced, Ayahuasca has become popular among white middle-class Americans. It is available throughout many parts of Latin America. For vast quantities of money, another trust fund baby will guide you through the 'trip' originally intended as an indigenous ceremony.
The drug has been used as a spiritual experience by ancient civilizations for years. Now, Rodgers is capitalizing on the drug experience by sharing his trip on Netflix.
Many folks, desperate to 'find themselves' are resorting to drug use in order to achieve it. Unsatisfied by their lack of complexity, they are attempting to pull some meaning from their lives through ancient drug rituals. If this can't do it, then nothing can. But, Rogers, like most, finds there is very little in there during his Netflix drug binge.
Aaron Rodgers Reveals Little During His Netflix Drug Documentary
The Jets quarterback says that he wanted to discover, "Where are people in life finding deep peace and centeredness and presence outside of what I knew?" He had been raised with religion and wanted to know how other people found inner peace.
Aaron Rodgers has taken four different trips throughout his life. Each time he is trying to cope with some inner trauma that he simply couldn't just go to therapy for. He isn't trying to talk to the dead or anything though, he is just trying to deal with a bit of anxiety.
Rodgers is using the ancient spiritual drug in his Netflix documentary to overcome his anxious perfectionism. He mentions the 2011 Super Bowl win. "When you're a perfectionist, you always teeter on self-loathing because nothing's ever good enough. So it was eating at me, like, 'Is this going to be the only thing I accomplish in life? So I was trying to find something to rectify feeling that way."
In order to deal with his win, and his feelings of perfectionism, you can watch Aaron Rodgers take drugs used by the ancient American civilizations on Netflix. Why can't he just drink copious amounts of whiskey and do illicit street drugs like the rest of us?
