Bryan Johnson describes leaving Mormonism and the shock to his brain when his logical reasons for leaving collided with decades of emotional conditioning. His faith had built mental structures so deep he didn't know they were there until he tried to dismantle them.
When you're raised Mormon, it is your singular reality and identity of existence. It's not like you're casually involved, it's everything you are as a human. And so when you are like, when you're born into it and then force fed that and your entire community is built upon that, it creates structures in your mind that you're not even aware of. And so as I began breaking from it, I would rationally be able to walk to the conclusion and say, logically, I don't understand the situation. But then emotionally, the brain was like, hold tight. We feel the following things we can't quite structure in a logical format, and it creates this bizarre conundrum in the brain.
