Whisper of Dharma is the debut album by the Human Arts Ensemble, a musical collective that was an offshoot of the St. Louis-based Black Artists Group.

Consisting of two 22-minute pieces, it was recorded on October 6, 1972, in St. Louis, and was initially released later that year by the small Universal Justice label.

The album features drummer and group leader Charles "Bobo" Shaw, saxophonists Oliver Lake, J. D. Parran, and James Marshall, trumpeter Floyd LeFlore, trombonist Joseph Bowie, multi-instrumentalist Baikida Carroll, and percussionist Gene Lake, who was six years old at the time of the recording session.

[6][7] Coda's Art Lange noted the "extremely gentle and evocative" character of the first track, describing it as a "cool wash of delicate sound" that is "reminiscent of Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun."

He called the second track "an aggressive, hot, shouting exhortation of demons... an exhilarating, chaotic celebration with a much denser texture, never turning violent or ugly."