After a long hiatus...

Here I am, after keeping myself from writing here for a while. I've been sort of busy with personal issues, and I'm trying now to reorganize all my projects. For the ones who have been here looking for new articles, my sincere apologies.

When I started The Germ, some months ago, my intention was to create an universalist journal, which could talk about several subjects concerning to the spirituality in general. These last weeks, reflecting about the importance of the diffusion of the Spiritst doctrine through people and countries that are not familiar with it, I came to the conclusion that I should focus more in the exposition of the fundaments of the Spiritism in itself, since it represents a good basis for any other spiritualist practice. The spiritist phenomenon was exhaustively studied by Kardec in the 19th century, by a real scientific method, and should be taken in account more seriously for all the ones who intend to dedicate to the study and practice of every spiritualist path.

I decided to replace the name "universalist" to "spiritist" in the journal description, since the term universalist may not be well understood,as the term spiritist defines more adequately the purpose of this site.

I'd really appreciate your opinions and suggestions in order to improve this journal. Questions will be very welcome also, since they can provide good subjects to be discussed in our articles.