Select drop cap for first letter of story. It's the realization that the magical can happen in the world. We've heard the stories.
Magical realism is the possibilities that start with realities.
He means using the talents you have with your mind to see the hidden truths of things. In a way it's just using the mind, clear thinking, smart thinking, and the imagination to see what's truly going on. A failure to do that and to bring that to the world tends to make us forget what has gone before us or what's happening right before us, and it is an obstruction to the creation of beauty in the world. One can speak of metaphors and be speaking of a real thing. It's also extrapolation.