I will provide some comments.  I don't know about answers.  I was just asking a lot of questions to maybe get people to talk.  But I am not sure if they are that interested, LOL.

I have had a few encounters with angels.  I was just hoping others may share some of their experiences first.  I will share one.  I already shared one with my encounter with Jesus on another post.  Here is one encounter I have had with angels.  It was one day when I started a new job, that morning I felt like I should not even go in to work, but I did anyway.  After work I gave this guy a ride home and I ran a stop sign.  I girl smashed into the side of my car and then my car ran into a telephone pole.  My car bounced off the telephone and spun around back into the street and she was going to try to do a hit and run, but ran into me again.  As this was happening I felt some arms grab me and wrap around me.  But I could not see anyone and I was alone in the car.  But these strong arms wrapped right around me from out of nowhere.  After the wreak, people ran to my car.  The thought for sure that I was dead because my car was destroyed.  I got out of the car and the only injury that I had was a slight discomfort on my thigh.  Even though the car was very messed up.  Has anyone ever soaked?  I have soaked and it increases you to be able to see into the spirit realm. 

Angel here.  And yes, I believe in myself.

As for your question, I have only heard other people's accounts of otherworldy forces (ghosts, angels.. I did see a UFO once, though) but they're so widespread I won't write off the possibilty of something mysterious at work on earth.

Angels of yore are also know to inflict suffering, but these we don't hear about which leads me to believe that angels and spirits (ghosts? dead ancestors?) may be synomymous.

I believe in Angels, yes.  I believe all of us are born with two guardian angels as well as spirit guides.  Whether we encounter them/their presence or not, I think, is up to us because of our differening faith and beliefs in them, but it doesn't mean they are not there.  I think you can feel the presence of angels in many different ways- things moving around, (sort of like ghosts and spirits do), feeling an indent/pressure next to you, as if someone has just sat down, seeing the number "444 a lot (which means "the angels are with you and are helping you") and the most obvious sign of an angel being around is that inner voice and feeling you have already spoken of Kevin. 

Like when you heard a voice telling you not to go to work, or take a different route or whatever, that is the angels speaking to you, and trying to protect you.  I also work with Angel card decks and give Angel readings to my friends.  There are also ArchAngels which are higher ranking than angels, the main and most well known four are the elemental ones: ArchAngel Michael, (Fire/South) Archangel Uriel (Air/East),aid to Archangel Raphael (Earth/North) and Archangel Gabriel (Water/west.)  You can ask angels and Archangels for help with anything at any time, but they can only intervene if you let them and give them permission.  I think that is why they are so misunderstood.

"watch out for my cousin.."

Good to hear from you again Maddy.  I always enjoy reading your post.  Yes, I have seen two angels who follow me all of the time.  They are always with me.  I once thought it was just something in my head until a guy who is gifted in seeing things like angels said I see two angels who follow you around and they looked just like the way they look when I see them.  And then it happened again with a woman and she saw one of them it looked just like how I see them.  One carries a sword with him at all times.  The other one carries a torch or sometimes a latern.  There is another one who carries a bowel, but he isn't always with me.  He leaves and does other things.  There is one who has brought fianances to me usually in $20 - $100 bills but many times he is blocked and I don't know why.  I have heard of people receiving millions because of angels.  What I mean by that is that I ask God to release my fianance angel and usually within hours or a day or two, someone will come up to me and say they feel like giving me money.  This is without me asking for it.  But then the angel seems blocked even though he wants to give me much more.  I have also seen angels of fire, healing etc....  One angel I see is an angel of revelation.  A woman I know is very gifted in seeing in what I call the Spirit, but sometimes there is a veal or a hood that blocks her seeing.  (I know what causes it)  And when I see her I ask for the hood to be removed and usually that night she can see again.  Either visions or dreams where before she would go months or days without seeing anything.

Many of the angels I see and deal with are angels of revelation that I call seeing in the 2nd and 3rd heaven and other realms.  Many times I can not talk about what I see until the right season or time.  Also whenever people see into the Kingdom realm it is like an address.  You can go back once you know how to get there.  But I am getting into some deep, wild out there stuff, LOL 

Also there is so much more for us in life than we know.  I asked God once how far am I in my destiny (my book)  There are books about you that is being writtin right now in this other realm.  And he said you have not even made it out of the introduction.  I was like well.  Then a young teenager came up to me one day, I didn't know him, and he said I feel like I need to tell you this.  And I was like "What"  That you are only living one percent of your destiny. 

There is so much more for us than we can imagine and it is open to all with hungery hearts.  And I thought I have seen a lot of things but I am at less than one percent of what is out there.  Anyway, I speak love and life to all who are reading this.