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"Few things are accomplished in human affairs except under the entrancement that can be associated with dream experience. The great cultures of the world emerge not out of rational processes but out of revelatory experiences that have many of the qualities of dream experience." (Sullivan, 1999)

Reasons are grounded in ideas which in turn are grounded in symbolic realities. Thus symbolic realities, or dreams, while in Freudian terms may be a vessel of hidden psychological messages, are the ultimate motivations that drive human actions. Philip Petite's performance is a realization of a magnetic vision, and because of its dream-like quality it justifies itself.

O'Sullivan, E. V., & Berry, T. (1999). Transformative learning: Educational vision for the 21st century. London ; New York: Zed Books.