Do you consider the "new age" methods of spirit guide and angel contact to be flawed method? The method is something like do a protection ritual, meditate, visualize a happy place and call on one of them to come to you with advice that you need.
I've noticed within myself and others in forums like this that such methods are frowned upon as inadequate, unsophisticated and "dumbed down". Such arrogant attitudes appear to spring from a place of intellectual pride. Surely a helpful angel is a helpful angel regardless of how it was found and what system it belongs to?