"I didn't really know what I was doing. When it hits you, you see prisms and shapes and things like that. I could see incredible things. But I got scared. I had to say to myself: 'Everything is going well, you're fine, for this you you signed up, " Kerry Rhodes , a former NFL player, says on Tuesday in 'The Guardian' and, in his memory, the strangest experience of his life: when he traveled to Costa Rica to undergo a treatment with ayahuasca directed by the shaman Taita Chindoy Chindo and Juanito Guerillmo. Whoever was the defense of the New York Nets (2005-2009) and the Arizona Cardinals (2010-2012) sought to overcome a depression, wanted to meet and ended up doing it, according to his explanation, after hallucinations that consisted of, for example, returning To be a fetus or a baby.

"Once I woke up and I was a baby in a crib. I saw myself in the first and third person. And I was crying, but nobody came to hug me. And in a moment, in the middle of hallucination, I realized that I didn't need to nobody would hug me, that I could put my thumb in my mouth and stop crying. I realized that I don't need anybody, "Rhodes notes in the English media that allowed him to film part of his experience in the documentary The Medicine. In the piece you can see the trip of the former player and the ceremonies prior to the consumption of ayahuasca, but after the order of the shaman he stops recording later.

Rhodes' career ended abruptly in 2012 due to contractual problems, although according to his coaches his character did not help. Now he seems to be a new man. "My idea of ​​love was for other people to help me and tell me that I'm great. In ceremonies I realized that I depended too much on others when it really didn't have to be," says Rhodes, who, after his sports career, He has recycled as an actor. He has appeared in the soap opera If Loving You Is Wrong and in the comedy Tragedy Girls and is already working on a new movie. According to his explanation, he now periodically visits Costa Rica to meet the shaman Taita Juanito Guerillmo Chindoy Chindoy and thus keep his ghosts on the sidelines.

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