Isn’t this basically occultism?
Yes, those aren’t “angels” that she’s talking to...
at least not now they aren’t.
They might have been at one time.
If so, then the Bible was written by occultists. Everyone and his brother talked to angels in the Old Testament. And I guess Mary Magdalene was also into the occult, since she spoke to an angel at Jesus' tomb.
It depends if the angels are acting on God’s orders or they are in fact disguised demonic angels.
From the little I read in the excerpt it doesn’t sound like she conjures them up, she sees them around her. If she was using a ouija board or doing something to bring them to her, that would definitely be occultism. But if she’s seen angels all her life and she’s done nothing to make them appear, and can just see them, then it doesn’t appear to be her dabbling in the occult.
The fellow in the article who ruled out #4 pre-emptively, saying it's as likely as talking with Santa Claus, manifests an anti-scientific prejudice.
He ought to have said that there are tests one could devise which, while not proving #4, could go a along way toward disproving #1, #2, and #3. If her brain does not show the physiological characteristics or measurable abnormal activity associated with hallucination; if the entity she's in contact with worships Jesus Christ our Lord and teaches nothing contrary to faith or morals; and if she has a reputation for truthfulness and passes a polygraph: as I said, it doesn't prove, but it vastly increases the probability of #4.
Some say that it is.
I guess I’m more interested in what Jesus would say.
So I’ll seek His guidance.