Eternity’s Pillar

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 1985-12-09

Lost Episode

2. Episode 2

Air Date: 1985-12-16

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.

3. Episode 3

Air Date: 1985-12-23

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.

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 1986-01-05

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.

5. Episode 5

Air Date: 1986-01-01

6. Episode 6

Air Date: 1986-01-13

7. Episode 7

Air Date: 1986-01-20

11. Episode 11

Air Date: 1986-02-10

15. Episode 15

Air Date: 1986-02-24

16. Episode 16

Air Date: 1986-03-03

18. Episode 18

Air Date: 1988-05-30

20. Episode 20

Air Date: 1988-06-06

24. Special 1-hour Program

Air Date: 1988-07-31