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This understanding of "holy moments" is interesting to me, and a different (though not that different) from what I imagined while listening to the clip from Waking Life. I had thought of holy moments as instants, in 'real life' or while involved in a book/movie/performance/etc., that caused complete engagement with that instant-- moments where the usual distance between one's self and one's surroundings (one's conscious thought/"mental cognitive ability", I guess?) seems to disappear. I hadn't thought to imagine complete engrossment in a work of fiction (in whatever form) as an extended holy moment, even if what that means is the willful putting-aside of critical thought to lose oneself in whatever's on TV. What I understand by/associate with the idea of "allow[ing] ourselves to just be" isn't something I would have connected to the experience of letting television take over my brain-- that experience doesn't feel transcendent or like it's somehow connecting me more closely to the universe, but it might not be so different in concept from losing oneself in other "holy moments."