Astral Codex Ten

Places

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Places

Cities, neighborhoods, regions, and other geographic anchors.

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Bangkok1 mentions across 1 issues

Bangkok is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "a culty Buddhist megachurch in Bangkok". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Bangkok
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
The setting is the Dhammakaya Temple, a culty Buddhist megachurch in Bangkok.
Bosnia1 mentions across 1 issues

Bosnia is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "a small town in Bosnia where they seem to happen regularly". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Bosnia
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1
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1
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
I did my best to research the event, and the results were The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know and Highlights From The Comments On Fatima. The main thing I was able to add to the Substack discussion, if not the broader worldwide one, was a survey of similar events. There were apparent sun miracles at various other Catholic sites and apparitions of the Virgin, including a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Italy, and a small town in Bosnia where they seem to happen regularly. But also, people who “sungaze” - a weird alternative medicine practice where people stare at the sun in the hopes that maybe this will help something and they won’t go blind - report sometimes seeing the sun spin and change color in similar ways. And Buddhist meditators report that concentrating very hard on any bright light will cause similar things to happen.
Inline links: The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, Highlights From The Comments On Fatima
Fatima1 mentions across 1 issues

Fatima is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "sun behaving in a way ... at Fatima almost a century earlier"; "Compare to some of the Catholic testimonials from Fatima"; "original Fatima-Substacker Ethan Muse". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Fatima
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1
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1
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
I did my best to research the event, and the results were The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know and Highlights From The Comments On Fatima. The main thing I was able to add to the Substack discussion, if not the broader worldwide one, was a survey of similar events. There were apparent sun miracles at various other Catholic sites and apparitions of the Virgin, including a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Italy, and a small town in Bosnia where they seem to happen regularly. But also, people who “sungaze” - a weird alternative medicine practice where people stare at the sun in the hopes that maybe this will help something and they won’t go blind - report sometimes seeing the sun spin and change color in similar ways. And Buddhist meditators report that concentrating very hard on any bright light will cause similar things to happen.
Inline links: The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, Highlights From The Comments On Fatima
Still, the Catholics - especially original Fatima-Substacker Ethan Muse - were not convinced. The other Catholic sightings could have been other real miracles, equally attributable to the Virgin. The sungazers were staring at the sun for a long time, unlike the Fatima pilgrims who just happened to glance up at it. And the meditators were doing sophisticated contemplative exercises, again different from the Fatima pilgrims who just looked up and saw it. These were suggestive, but there was no record of a miracle exactly like Fatima happening within a non-Catholic religious tradition.
Until now! Substacker Arthur T, building on research from Sophia In The Shell, has found a 1990s Buddhist sun miracle very similar to Fatima.
Inline links: Arthur T, Sophia In The Shell, a 1990s Buddhist sun miracle very similar to Fatima
Italy1 mentions across 1 issues

Italy is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Italy". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Italy
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1
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1
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
I did my best to research the event, and the results were The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know and Highlights From The Comments On Fatima. The main thing I was able to add to the Substack discussion, if not the broader worldwide one, was a survey of similar events. There were apparent sun miracles at various other Catholic sites and apparitions of the Virgin, including a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Italy, and a small town in Bosnia where they seem to happen regularly. But also, people who “sungaze” - a weird alternative medicine practice where people stare at the sun in the hopes that maybe this will help something and they won’t go blind - report sometimes seeing the sun spin and change color in similar ways. And Buddhist meditators report that concentrating very hard on any bright light will cause similar things to happen.
Inline links: The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know, Highlights From The Comments On Fatima
Medjugorje1 mentions across 1 issues

Medjugorje is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "Sometimes pilgrims “take home” the miracle from Medjugorje". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Medjugorje
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1
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
[Third], Apparently, the miracle happened on at least a few occasions in late summer-fall 1998. I wonder if it still happens. Sometimes pilgrims “take home” the miracle from Medjugorje. Does the same happen here?
Thai1 mentions across 1 issues

Thai is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "his inability to understand Thai". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Thai
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1
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1
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
This replication of Fatima in an “uncontaminated” context pushes me further towards believing that sun miracles are neither true divine intervention nor vague hypnotic suggestion, but some particular illusory/psychological phenomenon which necessarily manifests as the sun spinning and changing color, and which can occur independently even among people who aren’t primed to expect it. I continue to be vague on specifics, but think it might be somehow related to fire kasina meditation. This comes from a different Buddhist tradition than the one the Thais were doing; as far as I can tell, none of the Dhammakaya practitioners made the connection. But it seems like being in a meditative frame of mind helped. And it seems like the same pattern of fire kasina effects - including spinning lights, shifting colors swatches, and vivid hallucinations - applied here too.
Inline links: somehow related to fire kasina meditation
Arthur says his research has been slowed by his inability to understand Thai, and asks if any Thai-speaking sleuths are willing to take the case:
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[First, I would] love to see contemporary newspaper accounts, especially skeptical/mocking ones analogous to the anticlerical Portuguese press from 1917. Apparently this was all over Thai media at the time, but I haven’t found any of the original coverage yet.
Thais1 mentions across 1 issues

Thais is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "different Buddhist tradition than the one the Thais were doing". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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Thais
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1
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1
First seen
March 27, 2026
Last seen
March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
This replication of Fatima in an “uncontaminated” context pushes me further towards believing that sun miracles are neither true divine intervention nor vague hypnotic suggestion, but some particular illusory/psychological phenomenon which necessarily manifests as the sun spinning and changing color, and which can occur independently even among people who aren’t primed to expect it. I continue to be vague on specifics, but think it might be somehow related to fire kasina meditation. This comes from a different Buddhist tradition than the one the Thais were doing; as far as I can tell, none of the Dhammakaya practitioners made the connection. But it seems like being in a meditative frame of mind helped. And it seems like the same pattern of fire kasina effects - including spinning lights, shifting colors swatches, and vivid hallucinations - applied here too.
Inline links: somehow related to fire kasina meditation
UK1 mentions across 1 issues

UK is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "A UK survey found that kasina practitioners form about 3–15% of total meditators". It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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UK
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March 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
Scholars have actually classified the Dhammakaya [practice of meditating on a vision of a crystal ball at one’s heart] as a form of āloka kasina (bright light kasina). A UK survey found that kasina practitioners form about 3–15% of total meditators — 3% for kasina alone, but 15% if those practicing the āloka kasina practice of Dhammakaya meditation are included. Fandom So from an outside scholarly perspective, what they’re doing is arguably already a type of kasina practice — just not fire kasina, and not one they’d describe in those terms themselves.