I received information last night in a dream and I believe it may affect someone’s plans on this forum, and that it’s important to share:
When setting up a circle to work for healing, learning (like a shamanic drumming workshop or similar) or ANY other kind of magick circle, where the overall well-being and power of the group and working matters to you, do NOT begin forming that circle before everyone is present, in a way that leaves some spaces empty, and others filled.
Let me give an example – you have a few friends over and you’re going to do a ritual of some kind.
The space, maybe in your home or outside, is already marked in some way, the person leading or teaching will usually have their place defined (often furthest from the door in a room) and either be sitting there, or at least have their notes and any equipment (rattles, wands, etc) in that place, and people will drift in and seat themselves, or stand, where they choose, meaning the circle is defined already, and remains incomplete with gaps.
This is attracting a host of parasitic and entirely malevolent entities who have the gaps in the circle as de facto invitations to join (magick can actually be quite legalistic, at times) and the steady increase in the number of these circles forming all over, from wiccans to high ceremonial magick, and shamanism to theta healing, is feeding these beings, to the extent that they’re becoming a new kind of problem.
It’s like the way the increase in burger bars and fast food places on the high street increased certain types of litter – and the beings that feed on it.
And these are not empowering demons trying to help you, they’re lowlife astral vermin and worse, and need to be shut out.
If you form a circle, it’s best to gather in a different location until everyone’s present (no great challenge in the mobile era) and then move as one complete body to the location of the circle, leaving no gaps with some seated, and others not yet present.
If you can’t do that, maybe you aren’t able to tell the leaders about this issue or whatever, form a bubble of cleansing banishing energy in the centre in your mind’s eye, and use it once everyone is in the circle to blast away the parasites, or call on a spirit you trust (god, angel, or any spirits involved in the working) to cleanse the NON-HUMAN entities from the circle.
The normal smudging and other purification done before a ritual won’t work, because these beings have claimed the open spaces as invitations, and are actually partaking of the benefits of any energy that’s intended to cleanse circle members, for such they themselves have become.
I realise this is a very weird message, but I saw this very clearly, along with the pressing need to share it, and that matters more than trying to be “cool”!!
If you find it has value and are a member of any other forums or groups, please pass it along, it’s not my “personal property” – I’m just the messenger and you don’t need to share where you read it.
This was shown to me as being very important and I’m also going to factor it in for future group workings, online and off.
Don’t form a circle that has gaps.
This is a PSA but as risk of sounding presumptuous or whatever, I believe it’s very important to the future of magick – whether for healing or whatever else. 
thanks for the response
I’ve experienced my fair share of elemental energies manifesting in the personality in my own work over the years. It can be a tad destabilizing.