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Eternity’s Pillar

Eternity’s Pillar

4 Episodes

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.

Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is on view at the Hammer Museum February 9–May 4, 2025.

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Eternity’s Pillar

4 Episodes

  • ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 1
    28:55
    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 1
    Episode 1

    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 1

    Episode 1

    Directed by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda • 1985 • United States

    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...

  • ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 2
    25:36
    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 2
    Episode 2

    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 2

    Episode 2

    Directed by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda • 1987 • United States

    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...

  • ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 3
    28:40
    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 3
    Episode 3

    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 3

    Episode 3

    Directed by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda • 1988 • United States

    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...

  • ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 4
    28:26
    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 4
    Episode 4

    ETERNITY’S PILLAR: Episode 4

    Episode 4

    Directed by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda • 1988 • United States

    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...

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