How to Work With Your Spiritual Guides: Lee Harris on Channeling

Channeling, as the teacher Lee Harris presents it in his broadcast Working with Your Guides, is less a stage trick than a daily discipline with its own habits, checks and blind spots. Harris has been at it since he was 23 and says he began this specific work in 2004. In the opening stretch of the broadcast, which was built around a free live session for a large online audience, he lays out a working method: tune in, let the words arrive, write them down with the date at the top, and then go back and read them. Along the way he describes the message his guides gave him that morning, the public ego-test that channeling became for him, and the way the guides framed the people listening in. What follows is a guide to that approach, drawn from the first part of the broadcast, for readers who have not sat through the full 81 minutes.

What does it actually mean to work with your guides?

Harris is clear that guides are not an abstraction he reaches for on special occasions. He says that over the years he has worked with many intuitives and channelers, and that friends and people in his personal life have shared their own intuitive experiences with him. The question he gets most often, he says, is about the process itself. His answer is that the process is different for everyone, but that it shares a structure: you open a channel, you receive information, and you decide what to do with it.

He also widens the category. In the opening he names three sources he considers worth working with: the guides themselves, your own intuition, and what he calls your higher self, "which is as powerful a guide as you can find." That last point matters for readers who imagine guides as separate beings with separate agendas. For Harris, the higher self is a guide that already belongs to you, and the practice is about learning to hear it more clearly.

Why did channeling become a test of ego for Harris?

The most candid passage in the opening comes when Harris talks about who he was before channeling. He describes being raised as a people pleaser, in a family where a great deal of worry centered on what the neighbors might think. Going public as a channeler, in that frame, is not a small thing. He says the work "helped my ego take a very healthy battering" at the moment he had to stop protecting himself from other people thinking strange things about him.

That detail is worth holding onto, because it reframes what channeling is for. Harris treats it as a growth journey rather than a credential. The challenge is not only receiving messages but tolerating being seen receiving them. For a reader whose spiritual interest runs into family habits of self-protection, his account suggests the practice can work on exactly those habits, whether or not the messages themselves are ever spoken aloud.

He also places his channeling inside a wider body of work. He describes a monthly series of free videos he has produced for more than a decade, called Energy Updates. Each one begins with a headline he receives from his guides, and then he spends the video trying "to ground and make sense of" themes that can be "slightly more esoteric or abstract." He also hosts a podcast, Impact the World, in which he speaks with creatives, healers and entrepreneurs about the journey of bringing their work into the world. The throughline is translation: taking material that arrives in an unusual form and making it useful to someone living an ordinary week.

Why write channeled messages down instead of just remembering them?

This is the practical heart of the broadcast, and Harris is precise about it. He says he keeps a written record of his channeled messages, and he has a reason beyond tidiness. Quoting what his guides have told him about writing, he says the act of putting messages on paper, or typing them, is a way of "actualizing through our body" and "making them real," bringing the information down into physical form until it becomes, in his words, "three-dimensional."

The second half of the argument is about what happens later. Harris says that when you return to a written message, it changes you. The page gives you a chance to become a listener, to read back what came through and reflect on it, rather than letting it dissolve into the day. He describes the mechanics plainly: he uses the Notes app on his iPhone, writes the date at the top, and then lets the message come. Sometimes he arrives with a direct question. Sometimes he just wants to know what is going on, and the answer comes as a single offering.

He is also honest about rhythm. Some periods, he says, he might not channel for himself for a few weeks at a time. In others he might sit down and write a message twice a week. What he does not do is treat the practice as all or nothing. Even mid-day, when something odd happens or he is talking with someone and wants a broader view, he says he can tune in for a quick dialogue. The written record is for the messages worth keeping.

"The reason I like to write them down is because then I can go back and look at what was said and I have it there." (Lee Harris, opening segment of Working with Your Guides, approx. 5:42–7:02)

What did the guides say about the people in the room?

The morning message Harris reads aloud is a useful model of how a channeler can prepare for an audience. Before a large group broadcast, he says, he asked his guides a direct question about what he needed to know. Their answer, which he reads on camera, describes the listeners in a way that is neither flattering nor dismissive. The guides said the people present are there to experience connection, and that they differ widely: some are very experienced in their connection abilities, some are there simply to feel uplifted and connected to light and spirit, and others range from curious but hesitant to ready and willing to channel through.

Harris presents the guides' stated job as the one any channeler, or any listener, can adopt. It was, in summary, to be present, to organize the information, to be in the heart, and to surrender to the experience as it comes. The message ends by saying the group and the guides will lead, and that the listener should enjoy it. Whether a reader takes this as literal or as a useful frame, the structure is clear: attention, organization, heart, surrender.

Harris adds a reflection that goes to the core of the method. He says that when a moment involves many people, and he wants to be of the most use, it is important to get a broader perspective from his guides. Asked to read the room, the guides gave him what he calls a map of where everyone is. He says that does not surprise him, which is itself a hint about how familiar this kind of mapping has become in his practice.

How do you live with the unknown when you channel?

The last thread in the opening is about uncertainty. Harris admits there is "a level of unknown" in his work, and he suggests this is not a special condition of channelers. If we are really present in life, he says, we do not know what is going to happen next. A channeled message does not remove that uncertainty; it changes your relationship to it. The point of asking for a broader perspective is not to predict an outcome but to be of use in the moment.

For someone who wants to try this without a public audience, the lesson is practical. Keep a simple, dated record. Ask specific questions when you have them, and allow open-ended ones when you do not. Return to what you wrote. And notice whether the messages change how you move through an ordinary day, which is the test Harris himself returns to.

Where does this leave someone who wants to go further?

Harris frames the broadcast as a bridge into his larger work. He describes a second channeled mystery school, Initiation 2023, that he calls his second such program. The earlier one ran the previous November. This round, he says, begins on October 26 and runs across four weeks with four live 90-minute channel transmissions from his guides, backed by videos in between so participants can integrate the material. He presents it openly as something he is still discovering, noting he never knows in advance what the guides will want to teach.

Readers who want to test the basics before committing to a longer program have plenty to start with in what Harris offers here: a practice of dated notes, a clear distinction between guides, intuition and the higher self, and a candid account of how the work reshaped one person's relationship to being seen. The rest of the full broadcast continues in that register, and Harris is the first to say the guides will have their own opinion about what you should take from it.

Where to go from here

If this article leaves you wanting the material in Harris's own words, start with the opening of the broadcast, where he explains the method and reads his morning message. Then try his simplest practice for a week: pick one question, tune in before you do anything else, write the date at the top of a note, record whatever comes, and read it back at the end of the day. Pay attention to what changes in how you listen, not only to what the messages say. Harris's framing suggests that is where the work actually happens.