"When you can sing things into existence, you're deeply connected to the nature of existence."

I think you're reading too much into it. A medieval peasant *would* gawk at an electric light.

To clarify my earlier comment: The major disconnect is between things we've already studied and things we haven't, not between reality and unreality. If, tomorrow, we discovered a new combination of EM fields that could remotely levitate random objects, it would qualify as amazing new magic- even though it's based off of well-understood theories and nobody's written a book about it. Telling people that reality is just as amazing as magic won't work in the long-term, even if they are identical on some calibrated amazingness metric, because people quickly get bored with things they have too much experience with. The trick is to find things *within* reality that we haven't heard about before, and there are certainly plenty of those.