Eternity’s Pillar
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.
Cast: Alice Coltrane, Lawrence Tanter
Season 1
18 episodes
- 1. Episode 1Lost EpisodeCC27minDec 9, 1985
2. Episode 2BThroughout 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.CC29minDec 16, 1985
3. Episode 3BIncludes PRASAD food advertisement.CC28minDec 23, 1985- 4. Episode 4Throughout 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.CC29minJan 5, 1986
- 5. Episode 5No synopsis available yet.CC29minJan 1, 1986
- 6. Episode 6No synopsis available yet.CC29minJan 13, 1986
- 7. Episode 7BNo synopsis available yet.CC28minJan 20, 1986
- 11. Episode 11No synopsis available yet.CC28minFeb 10, 1986
- 15. Episode 15No synopsis available yet.CC28minFeb 24, 1986
- 16. Episode 16No synopsis available yet.CC29minMar 3, 1986
- 17. Episode 17No synopsis available yet.CC28minApr 27, 1987
- 18. Episode 18No synopsis available yet.CC29minMay 30, 1988
- 19. Episode 19No synopsis available yet.CC29minJun 6, 1988
- 20. Episode 20No synopsis available yet.CC29minJun 13, 1988
- 21. Episode 21No synopsis available yet.CC29minJun 27, 1988
- 22. Episode 22No synopsis available yet.CC29minJul 4, 1988
- 23. Episode 23No synopsis available yet.CC25minJul 25, 1988
- 24. Episode 24Special 1-hour program.CC59minJul 31, 1988
Eternity’s Pillar
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.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Alice Coltrane
- Studio
- KTTV Los Angeles
