Books by Youri Hermes

Two trilogies.
One way of stepping aside.

Look inside each book before you buy it: read the introduction and a part of a chapter, right here on the page.

Trilogy · 2026

Stepping Aside

For writers and practitioners: how a book comes into being once the writer steps aside.

The Art of Unwriting

Freeing the book from the one who writes it

Most programs and books on writing are designed to help the writer. To improve the writing. To build skills, habits, and systems.

This book doesn’t feed the writer. It erases the writer.

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The Art of Unwriting reveals six openings that free your book by dissolving the very identity that keeps it trapped. When there’s no writer or author left to manage, control, or perfect the process, space opens for what wants to be written.

Through these openings, you’ll discover that your book already exists. It’s the rhythm that’s been moving through you. The patterns already present in scattered material. The voice that speaks when no one’s trying to be a writer.

This is, as I found, the only way to give space for the book to come through.

Your book is already here. The writer was just in the way.

June 2026PaperbackKindle ebook

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The Art of Unmarketing

Freeing the business from the writer who runs it.

Coming soon

The Book’s Urgency

Why a book alters a life before it’s even published.

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Trilogy · 2025

Remember to Forget

Nondual and playful: three books that turn ideas inside out and see what remains.

Not your responsibility

60 interventions across 10 transformations for living fully and freely

What ideas come to mind when you think of responsibility? Making a positive impact, being there for others, or acting according to your conscience? Does it feel like a burden or is it liberating? Could true responsibility go beyond any idea you have about it?

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This book offers 60 interventions, divided into 10 non-dual transformations, inviting you to approach responsibility from a freeing perspective. It’s not a theory book or a standard workbook, but one that aims to break through concepts and pave the way to a complete and free life.

April 2025PaperbackKindle ebook

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Also in Dutch: Niet jouw verantwoordelijkheid on bol.com ↗

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The relief of not solving life, and playing with it anyway

An invitation to play with your understanding of life. It flips perspectives, challenges assumptions, and unravels ideas just as quickly as they form.

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There are no answers here and no fixed truths, only a space to explore, question, and let go of the need for certainty. If you enjoy turning concepts inside out and seeing what remains, this book is for you.

August 2025PaperbackKindle ebook

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Enlightenment, no refunds!

A playful and freeing dialogue between your “false” and “true” self

A playful, down-to-earth dialogue between your imagined self and your true self. The imagined self represents your known and limited world, while your true self is portrayed as the free observer of that world.

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The book’s approach is neither informative nor persuasive in nature. It is written to explore spiritual awakening as comprehensively and succinctly as possible.

Each of the 77 sections addresses a question about enlightenment. Different perspectives are shared, all aimed at breaking you free from your existing ideas, leaving only enlightenment behind.

Are you ready to permanently open your true self, flipping through the ingenious paradoxes and subtle traps of your false self?

August 2025PaperbackKindle ebook

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Also in Dutch: Verlichting zonder toeters en bellen on bol.com ↗