Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers said that he will be leaving on a 4-day4-night “darkness retreat” soon after the Super Bowl.
He said, “I’ve got a pretty cool opportunity to do a little self-reflection in some isolation. And then after that I feel like I’ll be a lot closer to a final, final decision.”
Rodgers said he has not decided if he will play in 2023, whether that’s with the Packers or another team.
He said last summer that he had taken part in ayahuasca ceremonies that can produce hallucinations similar to the drug dimethyltryptamine. He said the darkness retreat does not include the use of ayahuasca.
Rodgers said, ”It’s just sitting in isolation, meditation, dealing with your thoughts. It stimulates DMT, so there can be some hallucinations in there but it’s just kind of sitting in silence, which most of us never do. We rarely even turn our phone off or put the blinds down to sleep in darkness. I’m really looking forward to it.”
Rodgers said the retreat will be alone in the confines of a small house in an undisclosed location. He said meals are delivered, but otherwise there is no other contact with the outside world. However, he said he could leave at any point during the stay if he chose to do so.
