Phillip Duran:
CLASS OF 1955
Ysleta High SchoolClass of 1955
El paso, TX
Phillip's Story
Phillip is from Centennial, Colorado. Phillip is married with Norma D. Duran. Phillip's schools include Ysleta High School. Phillip later attended University of Texas at El Paso (Physics, Mathematics).
Phillip's interests include Gardening, Reading and Writing. Music Phillip likes includes Powwow, Native Flute, Mexican Oldies. Movies Phillip likes include Whale Rider, El Norte, Where the Spirit Lives. TV shows Phillip likes include Matlock, Animal Planet, Monk.
One of Phillip's favorite quotes is:"Albert Einstein's success as a physicist was partly due to an humble spirit toward the universe. He said, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. ... A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."".
More about Phillip:"I am a Tigua Indian (Ysleta del Sur Pueblo) from the village of Ysleta in El Paso County, Texas, where I attended elementary school and high school. I’m now “retired” after 45 years on college campuses.
After enjoying academic life as an instructor of physics, mathematics, and computer science during the 1960s, I began working toward a Ph.D. However, my doctoral ...Expand for more
program collapsed and I spent the next 20 years as a systems analyst instead of resuming my academic path in teaching and research.
In 2000 I became director of an environmental studies degree program in the Division of Science and Mathematics at Northwest Indian College and later served as the dean of the Division. I retired after three brief; however, it was during this brief time span that my mind and spirit started to become “indigenized” in science, physics in particular. In subsequent years a new cycle of discovery began for me as I refreshed, re-learned, and discovered new concepts in quantum physics and relativity from an indigenous perspective. In my mind physics was no longer limited to a material universe but one that is alive with spirit. Relevant concepts in science became linked to Indigenous thought and wisdom, involving such questions as the validity of experience; consciousness; reality; time and space; the enfolding and unfolding nature of energy and matter and its relationship to the seen and unseen world; the constant transformations occurring at the quantum level of reality; the relationship between energy and spirit; the phenomenon of nonlocality.
My life was enriched as I became associated with culture-bearing Native American scholars, quantum physicists, elders, and linguists during interactions and discussions on the underlying principles of the Universe.
My book, Bringing Back the Spirit, contains my autobiography as well as a message to the American conscience as told through my own transformative experience. In my most recent book, The Condor and the Eagle: Uniting Heart and Mind in Search of a New Science Worldview, I explore the question of how we are obligated to live for the sake of future generations, given the knowledge we have gained from modern physics and Indigenous peoples.".
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