I am the Lyan King

Ego vs karma

The beginning of this post will seem rather stream of consciousness, but I prefer just to get it out, then over analyze it. I’d rather publish, then overthink at this point since it’s been longer than I wanted to have gaps in publishing.

Preface, since writing the family history, part of this entry, I’ve also engaged in a lot of karmic, and egoic spiritual release. It’s been important to understand who I am, but equally as important to understand the epigenetic’s of my identity. Though we have a past it is as shapeable as our future.

Christopher Thomas Lyans

Born Monday June 23, 1975 in the home of JR Lyans on Lyans Drive, La Canãda, California.

Christopher: Bearer of Christ. Most popular name ever. Universality

Thomas: Twin, borne by one of the disciples of Christ, best known for his skepticism about Christ’s resurrection. “Stop doubting and believe.” The Doubting Thomas

Lyans: The family derives its name from the district of the Forest of Lyons, north of the town of Lyons-la-Forêtin Haute Normandie, where their seat was the Castle of Lyons. During the first decades of the 12th century, Henry I of England built a new castle in the district, the Château de Lyons-la-Forêt, where he died in 1135

Motto- do not provoke the lions. Royal, French, Scottish, English. Glamis castle home of Lyon family since 14th century

Possibly an outcast, because the spelling is now different, as opposed to spelled with an “o”.

My earliest memory of family conversations were often centered around the history of our family land. All through out my youth family gatherings would take place at my grandparents home that was built on land owned by family for 100 years. My great great grandfather Robert Guthrie Lyans moved to La Canada, California in 1910, he and Sadie lived well into their 90's. They had a citrus orchard operated from 1910 to the mid 30’s, roughly about 30 acres.

Today Lyans Drive is named after him and our family name. There is a still a home there built by great grandparents in 1950. After there passing my parents lived there for a short time. Long enough for me to born in the kitchen. I like to think of my parents as naturalists, my father, in chiropractic college, and my mother a graduate of interior design.

Back to the story of the land. Times got hard during the great depression. My great great grandfather decided to subdivide the property and sell them off as lots.

Today it is a large portion of the La Canada Flintridge neighborhood.

The phrase, “if only we had kept that land, we would all be very wealthy today.” Rolled around in my childhood mind. A defining statement of truth, a definition of money success in my life. I formed the belief that I could never be wealthy and successful because of the mistakes of my ancestors.

Logically it makes no sense. I am my own person. Why was I not taking responsibility at that time for my beliefs matching up with the actions in my life. Why would a recurring thought effect my fiscal life, especially one that was barely a whisper by the time I actually started playing in the money game.

Retrospectively, I think it was a good decision based on the times and situation.

A book in circulation at that time by Wallace D Waddles called The Science of Getting Rich. There in, states… “there are great riches available for those take up small plots of land and farm in a certain way”

Id like to think my GG G read this book. That he used these principles, achieved his version of wealth. He did have a rich life after all, he worked the land, he had family. He provided the means to offer his son an education, he left his children land enough for a home in a beautiful area. It would still be available to his family 80 years later, and then offer retirement funds for his great great grand children. Not only that but offer all these great insights and nuggets of wisdom for me to dig up later.

Another nugget my grandparents, often said, “we lived a good life, but we could’ve been smarter with our money”. This statement also does posit a feeling of. “I will never be smart with my money.”

Always having this open ended phrase in my subconscious played out in many different ways. If only I had this, then I could have this or if only I had done this, then that may have happened. If only I was able to finish college, I would have been able to get a good job, and save money. If only I would have understood contracts better, my first business would have been more successful. If only I had understood marketing better, I wouldn’t have gone in the bankruptcy with my second business. These patterns of not feeling worthy for success repeated over and over in different ways in my life.

Considering our last name is Lyans and I’m the first born son from my father, who was the first born son from his father, who was the only son from my great grandfather who was the only son from my great great grandfather. I always felt like the character Simba in the lion king., It didn’t come out until I was a teenager, but I could definitely relate to feeling like I was from a lions pride. An heir to a kingdom, but then locked out due to evil forces at work.

In the course of my life, and getting to know myself, and my story, I’ve realized that I am the author of my life, but everything ultimately happens because of the things that I believe.

Through radical self responsibility and self governance we can be released from the bondage of self imposed slavery. Through accepting life’s challenges as growth stages to move one forward out of the false archetypes, we can evolve into the sovereign soul we wish to embody.

Seems like a game, very odd that by reframing our beliefs we can actually alter reality.