The first thing to look into is imaginary playmates. There is a lot of research and information to be found on topic. You can ask your child some questions about their little friend and find out pretty clearly if child is creating an imaginary playmate or not. The research will show you some of common reasons and scenarios that cause some children to create these friends. Study topic for yourself and make up your own mind if that's what is happening with your child.

If you determine that your child does not fit into imaginary playmate profile, then you have to decide if they're actually talking to guardian angels, spirit guides, Jesus, or some deceased relative. As I understand it, imaginary playmates are not named after spiritual entities or relatives. They have their own unique names. If your child is specifically mentioning Jesus, or great grandpa Joe who died last month, then you have to evaluate chances that they're either suffering a bit of an emotional problem or they really are talking to spirits. I would also look at your own words and see if child might be trying to win your favor by pretending to channel your favorite spiritual figure. Also, are you giving them subtle messages that maybe you want them to be magical children that talk to angels and spirits? They may be faking it in order to please you. Kids do that.

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In simplest of terms, human knowledge comes in two forms: description of facts, and theories about them. Description tells us what happened, theories explain how or why they happened. More importantly, they also purport to tell us what will probably happen. In other words, purpose of explaining is to make intelligible sense of occurrences that description alone is not able to provide. This is usually done by generalizing and projecting on basis of what is known. It is to guess and conceptualize as to what may exist in unknown. This explanatory procedure is true of religion as it is of science. Religion conceptualizes existence of souls and other spiritual beings such as ghosts, deities, devils, angels, if not also fairies and so on to account for experiences that are either too boring or difficult to understand. Science conceptualizes existence of ether, atoms, material forces, laws of nature, space-time, force-fields, dark-matter, anti-matter, black holes, strange attractors and so on for purpose of understanding observed workings of physical world. In very basic sense of word, to philosophize is also to explain. By light of its founding practitioners, basic business of philosophy is to determine what exist and relation between natures of such existents. These two core enterprises are traditionally known as ontology and metaphysics. Thus, as other kinds of theories, a philosophical theory must also depend on conceptualizations in order to explain. Such conceptualizations are usually erected on basis of two things: presuppositions and basic concepts or categories as they are professionally called. To believe that anything material must be cognitively inert is a fundamental presupposition of dualism. That everyone must take a soul to have a mind is another. These are in contradistinction to materialist and scientific presupposition that physical causal system is closed, and that material power and agency is all there are. Of basic concepts, these include such notions as existence (or being) and nothingness, facts and possibility, matter and mind, body and soul, act and object, substance and form, actuality and possibility, attribute and substance, accident and essence, function and structure, and so on and so forth. Between presuppositions and basic concepts, they provide various ways of mapping and relating many of diverse features of what is known as human reality. However, across span of centuries, different philosophers have found different ways of conceptualization to be intelligible, resulting in proliferation of different philosophical styles and perspectives. In this sense, it can be said that every philosophical theory is in ultimate analysis a consequence of presuppositions and categories that its owner intends to grind.