Eternity’s Pillar

Episode 2

Episode 2B

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 3

Episode 3B

Includes PRASAD food advertisement.

Episode 4

Episode 4

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

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 7B

Episode 11

Episode 11

Episode 15

Episode 15

Episode 16

Episode 16

Episode 17

Episode 17

Episode 18

Episode 18

Episode 19

Episode 19

Episode 20

Episode 20

Episode 21

Episode 21

Episode 22

Episode 22

Episode 23

Episode 23

Episode 24

Episode 24

Special 1-hour program.