Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Between Lines Books Books and Art that challenge the tradional outlooks on life and the universe ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [THOUGHTS BETWEEN ARCHIVE](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/thoughts-between-archive/) - Blog of Between Line Books & Arts.The arts, creative process, aesthetics, science, spirit, holism, animism, tricksters, irony, paradox, consciousness, metaphor, momentary beings, reality, unreality . - [Artists Helping Our Species Survive](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/2017/07/27/artists-helping-our-species-surviv/) - As a small boy born at the beginning of the Nuclear Age in 1946, I felt the anxiety of a possible nuclear catastrophe as a daily trauma. It forced my family to psychologically retreat to a metaphorical “cave.” Our 1910 Marmion Avenue apartment in the Bronx was protected by “walls of sound” brought to - [Night on Music Mountain By Eric Lewis](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/2016/09/28/night-on-music-mountain-by-eric-lewis/) - To explain our Music Mountain experience, would require many thousands of pages or one good haiku. Words can never adequately describe the atmosphere. The Manhattan String Quartet, of which I was a member, had been summering on Music Mountain in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut for several years. We look back on those four - [Slaying the Beast of the Known: The Artist in Our Time](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/2015/11/11/slaying-the-beast-of-the-known/) - In the old days artists formed groups, issued manifestos, and held their own arts events celebrating new visions. ## Pages - [Eric Lewis & MSQ play Schumann's String Quartet, Opus 41, No. 3](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/schumann/) - [Curtains by John Briggs](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/curtains/) - Black and white photographs of the folds in curtains and their photographic transformations. Speaks to the nature of reality and unreality. - [Welcome to BLBA](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/welcome/) - Home page of Between Lines Books and Arts. Containing the latest blog post, sample material, and links to the items for purchase. - [Eric Lewis](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/lewisomnibus/) - Artist's Project Eric Lewis: Composer and Concert Artist/ Violinist Artists Helping Our Species Survive As a small boy born at the beginning of the Nuclear Age in 1946, I felt the anxiety of a possible nuclear catastrophe as a daily trauma. It forced my family to psychologically retreat to a metaphorical “cave.” Our 1910 Marmion - [Hiroshima by Virginia Moffat Khuri](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/hiroshima/) - [John Briggs](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/briggsomnibus/) - Many things interest me. That’s why my image here is of what the Germans call a Wünderkammer, a cabinet of curiosity and wonder. The image suggests my guiding vision: that the wonder and strangeness, the “uncanniness” of being alive is what art strives to evoke. - [Trickster Tales by JP Briggs](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/trickstertales/) - We're familiar with tricksters as coyote, crow, and Lear's fool—the bringers of jokes and nightmares. Briggs' stories find tricksters everywhere. - [Fractals, the Patterns of Chaos](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/fractals-2/) - [Eric Lewis—The Art of the Fugue](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/fugue/) - CD collecting concert performances of J.S. Bach's last works, the uplifting Art of the Fugue. - [AUTHORS & ARTISTS](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/authors-artists/) - The authors and artists of Between Lines Books & Arts. Brief description of each person's resume. - [Genette Nowak Merin](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/merinomnibus/) - Creativity: Readers of the Between Lines website can follow Genette's ongoing process as she writes a book about her experiences as a new older mother. - [BLBA Database of Quotations on Aesthetics, Creativity, and Creative Process—from the Artist's Perspective](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/quotations/) - Quotes on aesthetics, creativity, and creative process from the point of view of writers and other artists. - [BOOKS](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/books/) - Between Lines Books and Arts publishes off-the-grid books. Themes include: tricksters, metaphor, transformation, spirituality, embodiment in nature, - [Elegy by Raphaela Willington](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/elegy/) - Poetic meditations crafted by an emotionally complex mind, poems in Elegy are as deeply felt as prayer. - [Purchase](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/purchase/) - Buy books, arts, and music related to challenging the traditional, conventional, consensual, and accepted. Focusing on the offbeat, weird, magical, and fantastical. - [MUSIC](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/music/) - Music sold by Between Lines challenges the traditional, consensual, and accepted. BLBA music CDs and downloads focus on nuances of performance and composition. - [Like Minded Places](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/links/) - Similar websites to Between Lines Books & Arts. Explore deeper into subjects that challenge the norm and revel in the strange and magical. - [Seven Life Lessons of Chaos](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/seven/) - [Creativity & Compassion](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/creativity-compassion/) - [Fire in the Crucible by John Briggs](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/fire/) - [About](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/about/) - BLBA publishes, distributes and markets print books, e-books, music CDs, music downloads, art and"FusionArts" projects that fall between lines and off the grid. - [John Z. Amoroso](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/amorosoomnibus/) - The artist is a transpersonal psychologist turned painter. - [Editorial Policy](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/editorial-policy/) - Between Lines Books and Arts does not review or accept unsolicited material. - [CONTACT](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/contact/) - Contact Page of Between Lines Books & Arts. Fill out the form and Between Lines Books will respond quickly. - [Stephen Dydo](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/dydoomnibus/) - Artist's Project - [ART](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/art/) - Buy original art through Between Lines Books and Arts. Themes: consciousness, transformation, transpersonal discovery, animate landscapes. - [Basgo Castle](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/basgo/) - The songs and dances on this CD were recorded in India. Ladakh is a Tibetan cultural area located in a mountainous, high-altitude desert in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. ## Categories - [Blog Posts](http://www.betweenlinesbooks.com/category/blogposts/)