Eternity’s Pillar

About 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 ep…

Eternity’s Pillar is a documentary and talk series.

Its one season of 18 episodes aired between December 1985 and July 1988.

Alice Coltrane appears as Self, and Lawrence Tanter as Announcer (voice).

In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.