False Idols

09/24/2026

Creating space for integrating impermanence and non-attachment principles and practice into the development of life and creative works...

Cultivating Culture, Freedom of Identity and Engaging Community

Matilija Salon is an experiment in conscious creating engaged in the many aspects of conceiving, creating and releasing projects into the world. The Salon offers creative workshops and retreats as well as conscious productions and consulting.

Formed out of a convergence of influence, from DIY art and music to the intellectual, consciousness revolution culture Attasalina was born into in Los Angeles, Matilija Salon aims to cultivate culture and challenge industry norms in an effort to transform systems of commerce and expand possibilities for artists, creatives and entrepreneurs to engage society in meaningful and effective ways.

Integrating Mindful Practice into Creative Process

09/13/2026

Art + Music + Culture + Consciousness

ART + MUSIC + CULTURE + CONSCIOUSNESS

08/26/2026

Normal's Not Working

08/25/2026

Liberating Identity

Bringing honesty and sincerity to branding artists, creatives and leaders, while establishing healthy boundaries within practical frameworks, by designing identities that emerge from their truest dreams, passions and purpose…

08/20/2026

CULTIVATING CULTURE

Communicating identity is powerful. It has the potential to create entire realities.

Rather then simply reacting to established systems, we have the capacity to imagine innovative ways of engaging society through our projects and businesses...

Life is change, let's create it!

A La Carte + Full Service Consulting

Cultivating Culture + Liberating Identity

08/07/2026

Like Siddhartha choosing to sit until liberation came, I had no more games to play. It was this or nothing. I leaned deeply into my practice in solitude with little witness.

In my secret garden sanctuary, behind an unassuming fence on an ordinary street in an ordinary neighborhood in an ordinary American town, I surrendered the world and myself.

🧷 THE POWER OF PROCESS
False Idols | Take the Dream

https://www.false-idols.com/the-power-of-process/

08/06/2026

DEATH + CREATION
Navigating the Unknown

In order to change the game, you have to change the story...

Navigating the Unknown

08/03/2026

As artists and musicians we have plenty to do.

It takes years and years of practice and work and dedication to do what we do. I can’t even imagine how to answer the question, how did/do you do what you do? I lived it, and I still live it, that’s how.

But I have begun to break down my way of navigating and living that does address answering the question. Because I have always done things my own way. That’s a big part of how I did what I did and still do.

My way was certainly not always understood or easy or particularly popular, there was no quick reward, but there was one step leading to another. And while I worked with the opportunities that were there, I also cultivated the experiences that I wanted and adamantly avoided everything else.

I prioritized my ethos and way of life. Because that’s why I create in the first place.

I create to establish my own reality. Not simply to conform or succeed within the dominant paradigm.

🧷 TAKE THE DREAM

Gazing at the surface one only sees reflection, submerge and a different world appears.

08/02/2026

It was so amazing to complete and release this recording last year. Sunny Erickson Music and I tracked the demo way back in 2012 when we were still thinking about continuing The Seraphim Rising project.

We decided to leave that name behind as it was really a very specific thing with the band for a short period of time, so we were just going to continue as Attasalina.

I reached out to producer John Fryer who I had met and asked if he would have interest in producing my next record and he said yes. So we were planning on doing that, however, things went a different way for so many reasons.

That is how I was invited to be a part of Black Needle Noise when it was just beginning as well.

So after surviving severe illness, unprecedented natural disaster and global pandemic, I re emerged with Fear and a Facelift and that seems very appropriate.

Take the Dream
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FEAR AND A FACELIFT

My friend wants to be herself
Says she can't be no one else
Got herself a mirror but she can't really see
No reflection only misdeeds

Can you feel me
Hey hey
Can you feel me

This girl wants to take a chance
Go away and won't come back
Fall apart, disappear, see to be seen
Can't be a number when you're chasing your dream

Can you feel me
Hey hey
Can you feel me

Line's been drawn
Fortune fated
To just cause
For love of the lost

Meet you there
The devil declared
Where light meets the dark

Pleasure and pain
Are my domain
For love
Of the lost