Exiled scapegoats can, thus, return to serve the collective as agents of its deepest and most difficult needs.... But they are also a community unto themselves. They form a loose society of nonconformists. It is one devoted to transpersonal processes underlying the individuality and secular collectives. Those in this society listen for the guidance that comes from the intersection of life and death, joy and pain, love and wounding. They are more or less willing to feel its paradoxical and raw nature. Since they struggle to continually accept that intersection in their own hearts, they can work with inevitable shadow projections, not as a prelude to scapegoating and splitting in order to attack, but as a means of life long personal growth and ethical actions. … [click on title for the rest of the post]