Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, meditation, chanting, and an avant-garde video-art aesthetic, this singular audiovisual experience—four episodes of which are presented here—is a sublimely cosmic expression of Coltrane’s deep-held belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.
CreatorAlice Coltrane
Episode 1
Dec 9, 1985
Lost Episode
Episode 2B
Dec 16, 1985
Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, meditation, chanting, and an avant-garde video-art aesthetic, this singular audiovisual experience—four episodes of which are presented here—is a sublimely cosmic expression of Coltrane’s deep-held belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.
Episode 3B
Dec 23, 1985
Includes PRASAD food advertisement.
Episode 4
Jan 5, 1986
Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, meditation, chanting, and an avant-garde video-art aesthetic, this singular audiovisual experience—four episodes of which are presented here—is a sublimely cosmic expression of Coltrane’s deep-held belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.
Episode 5
Jan 1, 1986
No description available.
Episode 6
Jan 13, 1986
No description available.
Episode 7B
Jan 20, 1986
No description available.
Episode 11
Feb 10, 1986
No description available.
Episode 15
Feb 24, 1986
No description available.
Episode 16
Mar 3, 1986
No description available.
Episode 17
Apr 27, 1987
No description available.
Episode 18
May 30, 1988
No description available.
Episode 19
Jun 6, 1988
No description available.
Episode 20
Jun 13, 1988
No description available.
Episode 21
Jun 27, 1988
No description available.
Episode 22
Jul 4, 1988
No description available.
Episode 23
Jul 25, 1988
No description available.
Episode 24
Jul 31, 1988
Special 1-hour program.
