Apparent ‘sun miracles’—reports of the sun rotating, changing color, or forming images—recur in widely different religious and nonreligious contexts (Fatima 1917, Dhammakaya 1998, sungazers, meditators). These events are often highly social (crowds, focal attention) and can be amplified by group suggestion, cultural framing, and leaders who use them to legitimize authority.
— If such perceptual events routinely arise from social and attentional dynamics, policymakers, journalists and historians should treat mass‑vision testimony as a sociopsychological phenomenon with political consequences, not prima facie supernatural proof.
Scott Alexander
2026.03.27
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Eyewitness reports from the Dhammakaya Temple ceremony (Sept 6, 1998) describe the sun changing colors and forming an image of Luang Pu Sodh—a near‑match to Fatima witnesses and sungazer/meditator reports cited in the article.
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