Feeling Ashamed: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

Abstract

The universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling ashamed was explored using the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. The inquiry stance was: What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling ashamed? Historians were 10 adults living in a community in upstate New York. The major discovery of this Parsesciencing inquiry was the discerning extant moment: Feeling ashamed is penetrating encumbrance with isolating concealment emerging with diverse affiliations.

Review of 2007-2020 Humanbecoming Guided Studies and Investigations

“…Since its introduction in 2016, six investigations using Parsesciencing have been conducted (Baumann, 2020; Bunkers, 2016; Doe, 2020; Kabigting, 2019; PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018; Shaughnessy, 2020). These focused on living experiences such as deliberating what is important (Baumann, 2020), feeling unsure (Bunkers, 2016), hope (Doe, 2020), feeling overwhelmed (Kabigting, 2019), suffering (PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018), and feeling ashamed (Shaughnessy, 2020). Bunkers’ (2016) inquiry into feeling unsure was the first investigation published in Nursing Science Quarterly using Parsesciencing.…”

“…Insights from several humanbecoming studies and investigations over the past decade have emerged within the theme of persistent struggling is persevering with urgent intensity (Parse, 2003). These investigations have included having faith (Doucet, 2008), feeling fear (Baumann, 2009), doing the right thing (Smith, 2012), feeling overwhelmed (Condon, 2014; Kabigting, 2019), difficulty telling the truth (Baumann, 2015), being dedicated (Baumann & Ganzer, 2016), deliberating what is important (Baumann, 2020), suffering (Baumann, 2016; Duarte-Quilao & Maillard Strüby, 2018; PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018; Pilkington & Kilpatrick, 2008), feeling ashamed (Shaughnessy, 2020), and more. In these varied investigations of universal humanuniverse living experiences, individuals described in their own words ways of “pressing onward, listening to their desires, taking control, honoring and staying with their priorities, and assuming responsibility for decisions, as they drove to accomplish what was desired” (Parse, 2003, p. 98).…”

“…New knowledge discovered within these investigations also supported the idea that fear and trepidation tend to surface with unpredictable or ambiguous situations. Individuals in these studies spoke of haunting possibilities (Baumann, 2009), angst (Smith, 2012), arduous instability (Condon, 2014), and oppressive disquietude (Shaughnessy, 2020). Yet while struggling through dark times, these individuals all-at-once considered uplifting aspirations (PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018), experienced inspirational moments (Baumann, 2014), showed fortitude amid adversity (Doucet, 2008), and fervently pursued repose (Kabigting, 2019).…”

“…The humanbecoming concept of imaging surfaced in seven of the eight Parse method studies and three of the four Parsesciencing investigations within this theme. For example, in Shaughnessy’s (2020) inquiry on feeling ashamed, the transubstantiation was stated as “feeling ashamed is imaging the languaging powering of connecting-separating.” (p. 86). Imaging is “reflective-prereflective coming to know the explicit-tacit all-at-once” (Parse, 2021, p. 42) and flows from the first principle of humanbecoming that states “structuring meaning is the imaging and valuing of languaging” (Parse, 2021, p. 41).…”

“…Imaging is “reflective-prereflective coming to know the explicit-tacit all-at-once” (Parse, 2021, p. 42) and flows from the first principle of humanbecoming that states “structuring meaning is the imaging and valuing of languaging” (Parse, 2021, p. 41). Shaughnessy’s (2020) transubstantiation also incorporates the paradox of connecting-separating, a living rhythm that surfaced in nearly all the Parsesciencing investigations and Parse method studies within this theme. Connecting-separating is a concept from the second principle of humanbecoming, which is “configuring rhythmical patterns is the revealing-concealing and enabling-limiting of connecting-separating” (Parse, 2021, p. 47).…”