Digital Dharma

Where Modern Medicine
Meets Ancient Wisdom

A synthesis of functional medicine, contemplative science, and healing traditions — for practitioners, seekers, and anyone asking deeper questions about health and consciousness.

By William Le, PA-C

The Complete Medicine Approach

Most health resources give you facts. Digital Dharma gives you synthesis. Every article weaves together Western functional medicine, yogic philosophy, and shamanic healing traditions — because the body doesn't separate its biology from its consciousness, and neither should your medicine.

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I'm navigating a health challenge

Understand your body through the lens of functional medicine, bioelectric signaling, and ancient healing systems.

I'm a practitioner seeking deeper frameworks

Bridge somatic work, breathwork, and contemplative neuroscience with clinical practice.

I'm exploring consciousness and awakening

From psychedelic research to meditation neuroscience — the frontier science of what we are.

Explore by Division

HW

The Hardware

The biological substrate of consciousness. From bioelectric signaling to the microbiome, this division maps the hardware that runs the software of awareness.

372 articles · Biology, body, medicine
SC

The Source Code

The fundamental operating system. Consciousness physics, neurochemistry of mystical states, and the tryptamine gateways that reveal the code beneath reality.

252 articles · Consciousness, neurochemistry, psychedelics
IF

The Interface

122 articles · Practices, therapies, somatic work
NW

The Network

108 articles · Relationships, fields, collective consciousness
UP

The Upgrade

163 articles · Awakening, frontier research, integration

Featured Research

The Hardware

How Stress Makes You Sick: The Mind-Body Connection

Your stress response is 200 million years old. It was engineered for one scenario: something is trying to kill you right now.

17 min read · 49 concepts · 3 researchers
SC psychedelics

The Neuroscience of Psychedelics

The scientific study of psychedelic compounds has undergone a remarkable renaissance since the early 2010s, producing some of the most significant advances in our understanding of consciousness, neural connectivity, and brain plasticity in modern neuroscience. Classic psychedelics — psilocybin,...

16 min · 5 researchers · 41 concepts
IF trauma neuroscience

Trauma Resolution: The Complete Medicine Protocol for Consciousness Restoration

After decades of research — from van der Kolk's neuroimaging to Porges' polyvagal theory, from Levine's somatic observations to Yehuda's epigenetics — a comprehensive picture of trauma has emerged that transcends any single theoretical framework. Trauma is not primarily a psychological problem,...

18 min · 5 researchers · 49 concepts
NW global consciousness research

Ceremony as Collective Consciousness Technology: How Ritual Creates Coherent Group Biofields

Every human culture that has ever existed has practiced ceremony. From the cave paintings of Lascaux (17,000 years ago) that appear to depict ritual scenes, to the elaborate temple ceremonies of ancient Egypt, to the Sun Dance of the Lakota, to the ayahuasca ceremonies of the Amazon, to the Mass...

12 min · 2 researchers · 39 concepts
UP spiritual emergency

The Safe Container for Awakening: A Functional Medicine Protocol for Consciousness Transformation

The preceding articles in this series have documented what can go wrong during the awakening process: kundalini syndrome, the dark night, meditation-related adverse effects, depersonalization, psychotic-like episodes, spiritual bypassing, and the full spectrum of spiritual emergency. This final...

17 min · 1 researchers · 49 concepts

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See how 1,017 articles, 151 researchers, and 191 concepts connect across five divisions of inquiry.

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