SL03-12 Nourishing the Soul

It seems to me we live in a time where more and more people are being devalued.  Where corporate rights appear to be growing at the expense of individual rights.  Where, in the age of Artificial Intelligence or AI, many services including customer support and chat support are being replaced by AI bots that supposedly provide the same level of service as their human counterparts once did.  The trend seems to be an expanding devaluation of the human person and with this expansion a greater denial of the existence of that which truly provides us value — the soul.   Our value comes from the spark of the divine that innately exists in each and every person.  Our value comes in helping nourish that spark within ourselves and shining the light of that spark brightly so as to nourish and heal and restore awareness of that spark within for those individuals directly impacted by this expansion of devaluation of the person. I recently came across the Gnostic influenced Manichaean writings that really seemed to speak to my soul.  Manichaeism would be condemned by the Latin Church as a heresy, the Manichaean writings provide a richness that speaks more true to the human condition as a soul embodied, incarnated in this physical body we live and experience this earthly life than most of the Christian spiritual writings ever shed on the soul.   I hope you too find it just as enriching as I did.