Before anything is manifested in the physical it must reside in the spiritual, which means that while science does its best to explain the physical world, it can only reveal triggers, leaving the source of the world and our interaction with it unexplored and unexplained.
To understand the addiction to salsa we must look deep into the music's history, our trajectory through time and our interaction with the music.
Percussion has always been used in all nature based religions to summon the spiritual. Percussion, as it was once very nicely put into perspective by a good friend, is the heart beat of universe (A Native American definition). The “only” part of a human that is spiritual is our souls, hence, when percussion plays it automatically summons a part of us that can not be explained rationally, therefore the attraction becomes unexplained, simply because living in a Christian built society, the soul and its interaction with the universe is never pondered, ultimately never explained in a manner which becomes something we can all understand and use.
For those of us who are automatically addicted, it means that our mind (subconsciously or consciously) was ready to explore a deeper part of existence which we are told doesn’t exist. The rhythmic nature of salsa guided our souls to a physical manifestation. Percussion became the needed event, experience, in our life needed to get us to feel the destination being pointed.
It goes something like this, the music, or melody causes our brains to let its guard down, while the mind isn’t controlling the body and our existence, the soul is allowed to come out and play. Readily feeling the exuberant joy of to soul, even if just a glimpse while submerged in salsa, causes us to consciously seek that which we know we feel, but don’t understand. Here is where science comes into play. Now that the soul has caused a reaction in our physically body, it comes in and studies the bodies reaction to an action that it can only see as bodies in motion, for it leaves out any deeper play than our bodies action and reactions to the physical world, reactions that are not only limited to salsa…
Those of us who do not feel the bug is similar to a grammar school student being placed in high school in a calculus class. The student can feel, can hear, but his mind isn’t ready to absorb and let go of the world it controls. Therefore, they’ll never be able to feel what other people feel.
Not being the only reason, we must also look that not every person needs to go through the same experiences to learn of a spiritual journey guiding our bodies to deeper existence, therefore, in a bad analogy: Christ, Buddha and Muhammad all reached enlightenment through different paths. One destination, (the omnipresence of the soul), which to a very limited point is present in salsa, and the many detailed paths to get there (Liking salsa or not / Christianity, Buddhism, Islam). The paths are the physical experience needed to get there, or simply details of the world perceived through different fundamental beliefs of the world, yet to one destination, which for all intentions and purposes of us in salsaforums, we can say is dancing salsa.
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