Uitgeverij Ankh-Hermes BV

Ankh-Hermes
Ankh-Hermes is the leading esoteric publishing company in the Netherlands. We publish about 60 new titles and 60 reprints a year. Our backlist includes about 800 titles. Although the Netherlands is a small country, the Dutch are known to be very keen readers and Dutch authors are very active in developing new ways in the realm of spirituality.
Successful Dutch authors at this moment are: Marcel Messing (Wake-up call, conspiracies), Janosh (Art of the Arcturians), Hans Stolp (esoteric Christianity / angels / dying), Jaap Hiddinga (out-of-body experiences), Benjamin Adamah (zeropoint field) and many more.
About half of our books is original Dutch and the other half is translated, mostly from English, German and French. Translation rights of many of our titles have been sold to England, the USA., Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Japan and Indonesia.
Therefore, we are interested in buying as well as in selling rights.

Origin and name
The company started as N. Kluwer in 1923 as a part of the publishing company Æ.E. Kluwer, founded in 1889 (now known as Wolters Kluwer). After becoming independent in 1971, we changed the name and turned it into Ankh-Hermes.
The name Ankh is from the Egyptian hieroglyph, which stands for eternal life, soul and mirror. It also contains N. Kluwer’s initials NK. Hermes was a Greek half-god who mediated between the Gods on Olympus and men. Ankh-Hermes also considers itself to be a kind of ´messenger of the Gods´, mediating between the authors with their spiritual ideas and the reader.

Intention
Ankh-Hermes' intention is to help people on their path of acquiring wisdom, self-awareness and insight by offering inspiring books on all levels, not based on any specific religion or doctrine. Books on all levels of being – spiritual, mental, physical, social and global - which can be helpful in the individual process of transcending from ego-self to higher Self.

Subjects
We cover a wide range of subjects in the aforementioned fields:

1.Spiritual
Eastern and Western wisdom/religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, the Vedas, Confucius, Lao Tze, Zen, Kabbalah, Christianity, Gnosis, Egypt, Maya, Logos Series
Esotericism/spirituality: meditation, prayer, consciousness, reincarnation, spiritual growth, near death experiences
2.Mental
Parapsychology – NLP – astrology – hypnosis – positive thought – inner child – dreams
3.Physical
yoga – acupuncture – acupressure – aromatherapy – energies – reflexology – herbs – massage – Bach flower remedies – Ayurveda – Tantra – Shiatsu – T’ai Chi – Feng Shui – diet – chakras – crystals – colour healing – Angel healing – and other recent developments in natural healing
4.Social and global
natural environment - global transformation – cosmic consciousness – Club of Budapest – new calender – spiritual management
5.NEW SCIENCES
´What the Bleep do we (k)now´- authors: Emoto, McTaggart, Wolf, Goswami, Pert, Ramtha
6.Children of the New Millennium (Indigo Children)
Spiritual and psychological aspects, education, health etc.
Ankertjes series
In the seventies we started a very successful series called Ankertjes, booklets measuring 9,5 x 19,5 cm., retail price aprox. $ 5.-, which serve as an introduction to a diversity of popular subjects. In a sense, they also wet readers' appetizers for more comprehensive books on these subjects. We published over 250 titles in this series!

For any further information please contact Wampe de Veer
at wampe.de.veer@ankh-hermes.nl