 Lyman was by all accounts very charismatic and later, after Judy had left, a community or family naturally tended to grow up around him.At some point thereafter Lyman began to view himself as destined for a role as a spiritual force and leader.In 1966, Lyman founded and headed The Lyman Family, also known as The Fort Hill Community, centered in a few houses in the Fort Hill section of Roxbury, then a poor neighborhood of Boston.