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26 MAGIC TREES OF THE MIND

Among neurons, communication is an electrical-chemical affair. Here, it istaking place across a narrow gap between the sending nerve cell's bulbousaxon tip and the receiving cell's thornlike spine.

continues on down that cell's receptive antenna or dendrite, to f/scell body, and into irs axon wire. From there it may pass acrossa synaptic junction to yet another neighboring cell where yetanother transmission can take place. Although you are unawareof it, this same sparking and transmission is going on right now abillion times a second between your own neurons as you read,

iiffiTr chair, Elink, swallow, visualize what's going on inyour brain, and reach up to turn the page.

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Suggested Readings

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