SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Manuel Calvillo choked up, tears welling, as he spoke of what he just saw. Mr. Calvillo just had a spiritual breakthrough, but he was not sitting in a church or temple—he and his wife Maria had just seen Shen Yun at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday afternoon. The Calvillos run a staffing and recruiting business, for which Mr. Calvillo is the IT manager. He’s also a classical violinist. From the moment the curtains opened on a heavenly scene, Mr. Calvillo saw the grandeur and compassion imbued in Shen Yun. “The first movement, the description of how man came to Earth and then the plight of man after the fact, how monarchies were established on Earth and how it went against man because of their loss of divinity … that captured my interest,” he recounted. “The cultural aspect, the aspect of divinity, of how man …