Timeline of the Free Enterprise Institute & the Creation of Sic Itur Ad Astra

1961–1963

On March 14, 1961, Andrew J. Galambos founded The Free Enterprise Institute in Los Angeles, CA. On the 20th of April of that year, he delivered to a paying audience the first formal lecture of the Institute. That lecture and those to follow would constitute what Galambos called Course 100: “Capitalism—The Key to Survival!” That course soon became the antecedent to Course V-50: “Capitalism—The Liberal Revolution.” Course V-50 eventually consisted of 16 sessions plus three workshops. On April 28, 1961, he officially integrated volitional science.

Originally, Galambos started with two basic theories. One being a cosmological theory of a stronger and more potent version of laissez-faire capitalism, and the other being a technological theory—the theory of primary property—which adds the major technology to facilitate and accomplish what is in the first theory. He merged these two theories in his mind into one theory as early as 1963. Eventually, V-50 together with V-201 became a unified theory, which he called the theory of volition.

1964

In the fall of 1964, Professor Galambos introduced a 12-session course he called F-201: The Theory of Primary Property. This was later named “V-201,” in which he taught the nature and protection of primary property (consisting of thoughts, ideas, and actions) and how freedom, which was the product of total capitalism, could be built for the first and only time in history. Whereas course V-50 was deemed by him to be the cosmological portion of the theory, course V-201 was the technological portion. It was in September of 1964 that the man who would become Galambos’ literary executor, William Martin, first heard Course 100 (the precursor to Course V-50) at a tape presentation.

1965–1970

Galambos continued to present new courses. By 1968, he determined that his V-50 lectures had reached publishable maturity. But it would take another nine years before he would discover how they should read in printed form. By the end of the 1960s, he had developed at least ten courses, as he later told his audience at his final lecture in 1989.

1971

On March 13 and 14, 1971, Professor Galambos held FEI’s Tenth Anniversary Alumni Meeting at the Grand Hotel in Anaheim, CA. Galambos honored William Martin with the privilege of speaking at this historic meeting. Here, Galambos announced he was ready to write a book on his theories of volitional science. The theme of the meeting was “Lift-Off,” symbolizing the first critical stage of getting his theories of volitional science into permanent configuration, that is, into printed form, which he called “Orbit.” Galambos concluded that meeting with a lecture entitled “Prognosis— The Second Stage into Orbit—And Beyond.”

1972–1976

Galambos continued to refine his theory and lectures, and to develop many more courses throughout the 1970s. On March 13 and 14, 1976, Galambos held FEI’s 15th Anniversary Alumni Meeting at the Airport Marina Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. At that meeting, he said, “I consider what we are doing now allegorical to second stage.” He announced that 80% of the propellent to get the book into orbit was now spent, and a second set of engines had been ignited and were propelling the rocket’s payload toward orbit. He repeated, however, that he wanted time and tranquility to write his book, and if he didn’t get it, his book, like a failed rocket, would fall short of its orbit.

Also in 1976, a year before he put the finishing touch on V-201, he observed in a critical three-session extension course to V-50, that a large number of people had misapplied the theory of volition due to a “nonunderstanding or misunderstanding—either accidentally or in some cases quite deliberately—of the existence and content of the second postulate.” This led him to a three-session extension to V-50 to more effectively sensitize his students to the significance of the second postulate, “All concepts of happiness pursued through moral action are equally valid.” So powerful was this course, he decided to call it V-50X: Surface the Giant!

1977

Between 1964 and 1977, Galambos honed and perfected course V-201, which he deemed to be the technological roadmap, or blueprint, to the “natural republic”—a free society where each individual is in 100% control of their own property. This concept was introduced in V-50 but now taken to a much higher level in course V-201.

At the end of the academic year 1977, Galambos announced that V-201, now consisting of 48 sessions and three workshops, had received its finishing touches. Together, courses V-50 and V-201 constituted a unified theory called the theory of volition.

1978

Meanwhile, between 1975 and 1978, the professor developed The Theory of Subvolition (Primary Psychology), which explained the existence of and cure for the universal psychological disease which he called the “ego minor.”

Effective February 16, 1978, Galambos terminated his association with long-time FEI lecturer Jay Stuart Snelson for numerous contract violations, which the professor later explained to his market in a letter dated July 25, 1979. He told his class in a lecture he gave in his subvolition (psychology) course that the greatest mistake he ever made was to have had anyone other than himself present his courses.

It was shortly afterward, in 1978, that Galambos offered to the market a formal Pre-Publication Subscription Agreement where subscribers could pre-pay for Galambos’ principal book—which he called “Book One”—and other books planned for publication. “Book One” was the most important book and would contain the theories taught in his volitional science courses at FEI, namely, courses V-50 and V-201. Galambos appointed Matt Lange as sole trustee and Jerry Miller as successor trustee to “act jointly where the context so requires” to manage the money in the trust for the publishing of the book and other books.

1979–1981

Galambos continued to innovate and develop his theories, and on March 14–15, 1981, the 20th Anniversary Alumni Meeting was held at the Quadrangle in the City of Commerce, California. William Martin was once again honored by Galambos to give a talk, just as he had at the Tenth Anniversary Alumni Meeting in 1971. The theme of this meeting was “Positive Victory,” defined by Galambos as “the successful creation of valuable products with no attack upon the property of others.”

1982

Galambos again honored William Martin with the great privilege of speaking at the centennial celebration of the birth of his father, Joseph B. Galambos.

1983–1984

On Monday, July 9, 1984, the professor received a shocking letter from his “best friend” Matt J. Lange, trustee of the trusts he had created to receive advance payments for his upcoming books and courses. In that letter, Lange plead guilty to having robbed more than a million and a half dollars (Galambos later said it was more like “2.5 million”) from these trusts between the years 1978 and 1984. Galambos later learned that Lange had actually been stealing from him as early as 1971.

In the late afternoon and evening of July 12, 1984, William Martin, along with his late son’s (Lance Martin) friend, Martin Atkins, was asked by Galambos to serve as witness to his and his wife’s discovery and inspection of the evidence of Lange’s crimes and witness the removal of their property from the building in downtown San Diego where Lange, acting as fiduciary of the FEI and TUSPCO trusts and coin-medal accounts, had stored them. A third witness, their accountant Charles Hayes, had also been asked to come along. Their presence, Galambos said, would serve as proof against any accusations Lange might make, namely that he or his wife had damaged or removed property that Lange falsely claimed to be his own.

After assessing the magnitude and quantity of these crimes, Galambos wrote a five-page letter dated August 17, 1984, in which he announced he had ended “all proprietary relationships between Mr. Lange and myself and my companies and any entities derived therefrom.” In the letter, the professor declared, “Considering the leverage factor of my life’s work, to which Mr. Lange always claimed full dedication, Mr. Lange may have committed the most massive plunder in the history of the species. There have been many larger plunders, measured in money, but none that may affect mankind as much as whether or not the human species survives at all.”

In the summer of 1984, after Lange’s financial crimes had devastated the San Diego market, the professor asked Martin to take over the San Diego tape contractor duty, which he accepted, playing courses for students from that year until 1996.

For nearly three years after this crime, Galambos did his best to make order out of the chaos left behind as the growing frustrations he experienced in trying to build a durable market vehicle for his book inevitably took their toll on his health.

1985–1987

In 1986, Martin took a trip to Galambos’ native country of Hungary with his wife Julie. On September 13, 1986, upon Galambos’ unprecedented invitation, Martin took the podium and delivered a three-hour slide show presentation of his experiences on that trip during the first bonus session of the 1986 open-end course lectures, a signal honor, as this was the longest continuing course in the history of FEI, dating back to 1973.

Eight months later, on May 10, 1987, the professor again asked Martin to take the podium during session 171 of OEC to share with his audience two red quote books he had given to Galambos, in which he had included over 6,000 quotes from his course lectures dating back to September 1964 when Martin had first heard Galambos’ voice in Course 100. On that occasion, Galambos told him that he thought his father would have liked him, and that he wanted those quote books to be published in the future. He told Martin that he never expected anyone in his market to do this much.

On May 30, 1987, the professor suffered a coronary thrombosis followed by crippling attacks of angina pectoris which resulted in a loss of more precious time needed to complete his book.

By September 1987, Galambos was healthy enough to resume his lectures, and on September 12, 1987, Martin personally presented to Galambos, as a royalty, a collection of “spaceland definitions” he had extracted from all of the courses he had taken over the years. On October 1 of the same year, Galambos phoned him to ask if he would meet him once a month to work on the “Spaceland Dictionary.” He said he wanted to add to it, and that if he were to die, he gave permission for Martin to finish it with his wife.

1988–1989

In a letter to his book and course subscribers, dated March 15, 1988, Mrs. Galambos linked the professor’s coronary thrombosis to Lange’s crimes. Yet despite these shocking crimes, her husband had decided to personally fund the courses and books that had been prepaid by their pre-subscribers, but over the next two years, his market continued to dwindle.

On September 14, 1988, after reviewing Martin’s upcoming book, I Accuse!, Galambos took him aside and granted him permission to dedicate the book to him and his father. Galambos said it was the first time in history that any book had been dedicated to his father and himself in one package. Ten days later, on September 24, Galambos praised him for his “great achievement.”

Finally, on the last Sunday of October 1989, during the intermission, the professor’s wife came to the podium and announced that there would be no more courses. Fewer than 30 people had come to hear him that day. Turning to the audience, he acknowledged his wife’s announcement and confided that, yes, he did have to write some books because that was important. It had been 28 years, seven months, and 15 days, he said, since he had founded the Free Enterprise Institute. A week later, he gave the last two lectures of his life in a small suite at the Holiday Inn in Montebello, CA, room 327. It was Sunday, November 5, 1989. The scheduled lectures were to conclude OESC in the morning and BFSC that afternoon and evening.

1990

In September 1990, Martin was invited to come to Galambos’ home to see the work he had done during the years between 1953 and 1959, including his rocket work and his notes for his talks at Whittier College. He said that he had “never shown any of this to anyone before.” At that time, Mrs. Galambos informed Martin that she found her husband carrying around the “Spaceland Dictionary” and quote books to bed with him, where he read them with “pleasure spread all over his face.”

The next month, October 1990, Mrs. Galambos confided to Mr. Michael Towry, an associate of Martin’s who was working with Mrs. Galambos on a short biography of Joseph B. Galambos, More Lasting than Bronze, that she believed her husband might have Alzheimer’s Disease. She was, in fact, correct.

1991

On the evening of January 19, 1991, Mrs. Galambos called Martin to tell him that her husband, she thought, wanted to make him his “literary executor” and that he would be calling him for that purpose. Martin asked her if he meant now. She paused for a moment, then answered that she and her husband weren’t going to live indefinitely. Martin then stated that in that case, he must not have meant, as she just said, that he wanted him to be his literary executor, but that he wanted him to be successor literary executor to herself. Mrs. Galambos was silent for a moment then changed the subject.

On March 17, 1991, during a lunch break at the 30th Anniversary Meeting of FEI, “Direction Forward!”, at the Radisson Hotel, City of Commerce, CA, put on by Mrs. Galambos, Martin brought up the subject of estate planning with her. She replied that she was “keenly interested” and that Martin’s help would remove “a huge worry.” She gave him permission to contact an attorney they both knew who was a graduate of V-201 in good standing with FEI. Her situation, she said, was “more difficult than ever.” In fact, the professor was starting to get violent at times. He could be gotten to sign checks, she said, “If the moment is right.” At other times, she added, “He gets awfully upset.”

On the morning of the next day, March 18, 1991, Martin went to the attorney’s office and explained the situation. At noon, Martin called Mrs. Galambos and, after gaining her permission, he asked the attorney to pick up his phone and join the discussion. He asked some preliminary questions and quoted his fee for drawing up and being party to the execution of an inter vivos natural estate trust. She replied that she would get back to him with the financial information he had requested after talking with her accountant, Charles Hayes. When the attorney asked about getting the professor to sign the trust document and wills, Mrs. Galambos replied that it could only be done at a “most propitious moment,” and then only in the presence of one or more of the “three people left to him in his affections and trust.” Of these three people, she said, Martin ranked first. Not a day went by, she added, that her husband didn’t remember him warmly. In fact, she continued, it might very well devolve upon Martin to be the best person to convince him to sign the trust. Then she confided, “I am not at the moment on the best of terms with him, or rather, he doesn’t seem inclined to trust me fully.”

In 1991, Mrs. Galambos published More Lasting than Bronze, a book dedicated to Galambos’ father.

1992

As the months passed, the professor’s condition got progressively worse. Then, on the evening of March 14, 1992, Martin received a phone call from Mrs. Galambos. Her husband, she said, couldn’t coordinate numbers in his head. Also, he was taking long, unannounced walks, and didn’t look right or left when he crossed busy boulevards or at the stop lights.

April 16, 1992 was a critical turning point in the history of FEI when Schedule “B” of the Galamboses’ Natural Estate Trust was created and signed by the Galamboses. On that date, Wayne Joyner, their lawyer, was appointed first successor trustee to the financial trust and William Martin second successor trustee. Regarding the literary trust, James Gafford was nominated as Literary Executor, and William Martin as Successor Literary Executor. Galambos chose Joyner as first trustee as he had a background in law; Gafford as first literary executor because he had a formal education in physics. Martin did not have a background in law or physics, but the professor held him in high regard and named him successor to both the financial and literary trusts.

On May 9, 1992, Mrs. Galambos again phoned saying she tried to put her husband in a home but was unsuccessful because he was “violent at times.” She asked Martin if he would serve as “alternate successor trustee on two trusts, one literary and the other financial.” He thanked her for those honors and said he would so serve.

On June 10, 1992, Mrs. Galambos thanked Martin for referring her to the attorney and announced that she thought she might have found a place (rest home) to put her husband.

On June 16, 1992, Mrs. Galambos mailed a letter to 500 people in their market announcing Galambos’ tentative diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. She also announced that she was editing the professor’s book from the transcripts of his V-50 and V-201 tapes, and expected to bring out the first volume of that “multi-volume opus” by the end of 1993 or early 1994. She also said she was working on “Book IV,” which would be the history of Galambos’ ideas, FEI, and his biography, as well as a “publication in printed form of Galambos’ physics course.” As she was now the sole trustee of the trust, Mrs. Galambos continued working on the first volume of Book One for the remaining months of 1992, and continued with her work through the whole of 1993 and 1994.

1993

On July 24, 1993, Mrs. Galambos paid a tribute to Martin at a tape contractor banquet in which she referred to his “dedication, determination, and indeed a style that may well be unique in history.” Mrs. Galambos tape-recorded the ceremony, in which she presented Martin a Joseph B. Galambos (the professor’s father) gold coin-medal from her husband’s private stock, and said that she and her husband had known Martin “since the mid-sixties and who has been a friend of the professor and mine since those early years,” and “for whom he had a great deal of respect intellectually and a tremendous fondness personally.”

1994–1995

On July 22, 1995, Mrs. Galambos publicly announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer.

On October 23, 1995, under pressure by the Galamboses’ lawyer, Joyner, and their accountant, Hayes, Mrs. Galambos improperly amended her and her husband’s trust by naming Charles Hayes and Wayne Joyner “co-trustees” to succeed her. That amendment set up a “co-trusteeship” in direct violation of the principle of corporate entrepreneurship, which Professor Galambos taught in his theory of primary property. It also breached the original trust document she and her husband had signed, Schedule “B” on April 16, 1992. On top of that, it failed to provide for a successor trustee if either of the “co-trustees” chose not to serve or were incapacitated or deceased. The invalidity of that amendment was later recognized in court on December 11, 1998, thereby reversing the amended document, thus reinstating the original trust document of April 16, 1992. But neither Joyner nor Hayes ever contested the validity of this amendment until they were caught, admitting later (on November 30, 1998) in a document before a court of law with their lawyer, “As you know, we have never taken the position that the First Amendment was valid. After considering your petition and independently verifying your analysis, we conceded that the First Amendment was not valid.” Nevertheless, between October 23, 1995 and December 11, 1998, Joyner and Hayes knowingly operated an invalid “co-trusteeship.”

1996

Mrs. Galambos’ passed away from cancer on February 14, 1996. As the first successor of the literary trust, James Gafford took over the duty of publishing Book One. On March 8, 1996, he mailed a reassuring letter to the pre-subscribers about the progress of Book One, claiming that “Volume One of Professor Galambos’ book” would be published October 4, 1996, and delivery would commence on October 19, 1996.

Then, in a letter dated September 28, 1996, Gafford backtracked on his previous announcement, asking the market to be patient. Thus things stood for another six months.

1997

On April 10, 1997, Professor Galambos passed away in Anaheim, California, leaving behind as assets of his natural estate trust the audio tapes, transcripts, slides and other materials to all of his 117 revolutionary courses and many other properties that would be essential in order to carry out the work of completing Book One (V-50, V-201, V-50X, and the Joe Pyne interview) and many more books to come.

Two months after Galambos’ death, on June 22, 1997, Literary Executor Gafford came to visit Martin, bringing along with him a working copy of “Volume One” (V-50), and asked Martin to look it over. Martin was greeted with shock. He found there were major deletions of the original lectures, paraphrased words, rearranged text, typographical mistakes, misspellings, and punctuation errors throughout. He couldn’t bear to look at it any further. Martin’s assistant, Erik Falvey, asked if he could read it. After getting as far as Session 7, he confessed that there were “too many errors to continue.” Falvey poured over Mrs. Galambos’ manuscript, eventually finding more than a thousand documented errors.

On September 5, 1997, they met with Hayes in his office in Coronado, CA. After pointing out these errors, page by page to Hayes, he finally expressed his thanks for what they had done and admitted that Mrs. Galambos’ version of V-50 was a “travesty.”

On September 25, 1997, Hayes met with Gafford and a printer to approve production specifications for “Book One, Volume 1, 1st Edition, 1997,” and a quote from the printer was to be supplied by the third of October. Hayes installed a document, listing specifications including printing, binding, job process, job delivery, advisories to the publisher, and additional specifications.

Just over a week later, on October 3, Martin invited Hayes to his office in Point Loma to show him some shocking discoveries he had made. Mrs. Galambos had rewritten her husband’s lectures in her own words! Martin explained that he had no other choice but to go back to the beginning of the transcripts and re-edit everything from scratch. If this was not done, he said, the text would be dishonest, and the professor’s colorful language would be irrevocably lost. Therefore, the time to finalize the first volume of Sic Itur Ad Astra, he said, would take longer than he had earlier estimated. Hayes made no objections. Hayes informed Martin that it was his and Joyner’s plan to confront Gafford with his shortcomings, and that if Gafford resigned, they would discuss the subject of hiring Martin as the new “editor-in-chief.” He wanted Martin to attend both meetings and to serve as a witness to Gafford’s resignation.

The next day, on October 4, that meeting took place in Hayes’ office, where Gafford honestly admitted his “shortcomings” and resigned. As Successor Literary Executor, Martin became the acting Literary Executor. Unfortunately, the “co-trustees” would not allow Martin to claim that title.

On October 5, 1997, a meeting was held at Hayes’ house with Martin and his wife Julie as witness. That meeting would launch the sequence of events that would put the transcripts and other vital materials into Martin’s possession. That meeting would also mark the beginning of the long history of disagreements between Martin and the “co-trustees.” Those disagreements included, but were not limited to, the title of Literary Executor; money and compensation; working in strict accordance with the theory of primary property vs. “flatland” law; and the “co-trustees” treating Martin as an employee, not as a “P1E” (primary entrepreneur of the primary property company) as would be the case if they all worked together in accordance with Galambos’ proprietary corporate mechanism. The “co-trustees” also demanded that Martin must acknowledge Mrs. Galambos as “co-editor.” Hayes would not budge from his position that Mrs. Galambos must be named co-editor. Martin decided not to press the issue at that point as his immediate objective was to gain access to the transcripts and other publishing materials. So, with that, Joyner and Hayes wrote up a “memorandum of agreement.”

On October 9, 1997, Hayes faxed to Martin a copy of the “Memorandum of Agreement,” the terms of which Martin took issue with. On October 15, 1997, Martin sent a note via fax to Joyner in which he explained the principles behind his thinking in respect to that drafted agreement. Martin argued from the beginning that the “co-trusteeship” was invalid, and if they had stuck with the terms of the original agreement of April 16, 1992 (which eventually was reinstated on December 11, 1998 in a court of law), precious time and resources would not have been wasted.

Nevertheless, on October 19, 1997, Martin agreed to the terms of their “memorandum of agreement” in defense of Galambos in order to finally get Galambos’ book completed. Martin knew that completing Book One was a long-term task of much greater importance than the short-term disagreements between him and his adversaries. This “memorandum of agreement” that Martin signed under duress he named: The Zama Day Agreement.

From October 19, 1997 to the end of that year, with the transcripts and other materials now at his disposal, Martin gave himself ten weeks of “intense inner preparation” for the work ahead.

1998

1998 was a year of turmoil, to say the least, with letters and arguments and squabbles between Martin and the “co-trustees” going back and forth all year, the details of which are in Andrew J. Galambos: Betrayal and Triumph!, by Bill Cobb. But 1998 finally culminated in the “co-trusteeship” being terminated by court order on December 11, 1998, the original terms of the trust reinstated, and Hayes legally removed as “co-trustee.” The terms of this ruling were:

1)         Amendment No. 1 to the Galambos Trust dated October 23, 1995 is null and void;

2)         The complete terms of the Galambos Trust are as set forth in the original instrument dated April 16, 1992;

3)         Wayne Joyner is the current sole Trustee, and William W. Martin is the successor trustee;

4)         Charles Hayes is hereby immediately removed as Co-Trustee;

5)         William Martin’s petition for accounting is taken off the calendar without prejudice to refile;

6)         William Martin’s petition for attorney’s fees is taken off the calendar without prejudice to refile.

1999

On January 29, 1999, Wayne Joyner petitioned to have “The Natural Estate Trust established wherein Andrew J. Galambos and Suzanne J. Galambos are Trustors” be determined to be “a charitable trust under California law,” wherein the Attorney General of the state of California would be empowered “to enforce the terms of the trust.” Of this, Martin wrote:

“Why then this petition to convert Galambos’ natural estate trust into a charitable trust answerable to the people of California? The answer is obvious: money! By reconstituting the trust as a charitable trust, he created the grounds for requesting and getting back from the IRS a refund of federal estate taxes that he and his accessory Hayes had paid in high six figures if not seven figures following Galambos’ death. But this shouldn’t be surprising. The precedent for making money a paramount objective at the expense of quality had already been shown in his behavior from the beginning. Any other motives, especially to an opportunistic short-termer, were naturally subordinated to this one…Thus this treacherous imposter, masquerading as a trustee of Galambos’ sacred natural estate, has overruled Galambos’ testamentary terms and made them the victim of flatland law, reducing Galambos’ life’s work to the lowly status of being nothing more than a ward of the state, with the people of California its beneficiary! Can there be a greater crime? I say there cannot… By this act he has heaped upon himself the highest possible guilt and shame.”

On April 17, 1999, the “co-trustees” held a meeting to distribute the incomplete, error ridden “Sic Itur Ad Astra, Vol.1” books and to “celebrate” their so-called accomplishment of its publication. At that meeting, Wayne Joyner, Charles Hayes, Jonathon Wilkinson, and Pete Sisco took turns speaking. They pleaded their case as to why they were “right” and Martin was “wrong” to a group of approximately 60 book subscribers. They held up and chastised Martin’s fourth and final letter to the pre-subscribers, dated April 8, 1999, where he warned them about patronizing the “co-trustees.” Martin’s terms in that letter were that the subscribers demand Joyner’s resignation as trustee and confirm with him that they were aware that they had received stolen goods, namely “SIAA Vol. 1,” and that they would safeguard those stolen goods until they could be safely returned to Galambos’ estate.

Confirmation of The Natural Estate Trust becoming “a charitable trust under California law” was confirmed on June 10, 1999 at 9:15 A.M. by the Superior Court of the state of California for the county of Los Angeles.

2000

In February of 2000, Martin finished editing all of V-201.

On April 14, 2000, Martin offered “Book One” to Wayne Joyner for the sum of $328,748.91. On May 12, 2000, Joyner refused it.

2001–2002

On July 24, 2002, Joyner petitioned the court to amend the original trust document of 1992 in order to remove Martin as successor trustee and replace him with a “Board of Trustees” in which “the authorized number of Trustees serving on the Board shall be five (5); provided, however, that from time to time the Board may fix the authorized number of Trustees pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board then serving, so long as the Board consists of at least five (5) but no more than nine (9) Trustees at all times.” Joyner won this lawsuit as Martin wasn’t interested in trying to defend himself in court any longer. After all, he had already completed the book, so it no longer mattered whether he was legally attached to FEI or not.

2003

On March 21, 2003, William Martin signs his name as literary executor to the Foreword of the completed 15-volume magnum opus of Professor Galambos’ Sic Itur Ad Astra.

On April 5, 2003, Martin holds a video-taped meeting for the official publication of Sic Itur Ad Astra, saying at that meeting, “Today I proclaim to be the official date for the publication of Sic Itur Ad Astra. The Book is now published.”

2004

In complete disregard to Galambos’ theory, between the years 2004 to 2025, Joyner brought on board Cheryl Cerell, Peter Giansante, Jerry Miller, and Bobby Greenberg as “co-trustees” to the Galamboses’ estate. None of this was ever authorized by the Galamboses’. (Then much later, within the last couple of years, as of this writing, Ross Krumbholz was also to be named “co-trustee,” thereby rounding out the current “board of trustees” to six!). The “co-trustees” come up for “re-election” generally every ten years, the only exception being Greenberg’s first re-election after five years. Cheryl Cerell was most likely Joyner’s first “co-trustee” coming on board in 2004 as she was “re-elected” March 22, 2014. Giansante and Miller were most likely Joyner’s second and third named “co-trustees,” both coming on board at the same time in 2005, as both were “re-elected” March 22, 2015. We know from Cerell that Greenberg was brought on board in 2011; for some reason, he was “re-elected” five, not ten, years after being nominated. Joyner and Greenberg were both “re-elected” March 22, 2016, for whatever reason, as if Joyner actually had to be “re-elected.” These “co-trustees” were chosen by Joyner, not Galambos. They have refused to publish anything, have squandered all of the assets of the estate, and there is no telling what condition the tapes of the remaining courses are in today.

2004–2016

For more information for the period 2004–2016, I refer the reader to Mr. Richard Boren’s site, https://www.galambos-fei.com. There you will find the continuation of the “co-trustees” refusal to honor their contract with Professor Galambos, the story of the Marks lawsuit brought against them by disgruntled pre-publication book subscribers, and more information of historical significance, much of which can also be found in Bill Cobb’s books. It should be noted that Marks and his group were just as hostile towards William Martin as they were to the “co-trustees,” for reasons explained elsewhere. One tragic result of this was that, due to their lack of support during the critical period around May, 1998, they would never receive the book they had paid for and waited a large portion of their lives for.

2012

William Martin passed away on January 19, 2012, at the age of 76.

Upon William Martin’s death, Martin Atkins took over the company Martin had founded, Spaceland Publications. Originally founded in the mid-2000s as a vehicle to publish William Martin’s numerous books, both completed and in progress, Martin Atkins changed the company's focus and mission statement to: The survival, expansion, and advancement of the works of Andrew J. Galambos and William W. Martin.

2019–2024

Spaceland Publications published the following works as its initial slate of offerings in its bookstore:

The Biography of Lance Martin: History’s First Child of Freedom by William W. Martin

Orbit!: Being an examination of Sic Itur Ad Astra’s creation and final triumph by William W. Martin

Andrew J. Galambos: Betrayal and Triumph!: The History of Betrayal of Andrew J. Galambos and the Ultimate Victory of Galambos’ True Literary Executor William W. Martin by Bill Cobb

Andrew J. Galambos: Publish or Perish!: New supplemental Discoveries to Supplement the Original: Andrew J. Galambos: Betrayal and Triumph! by Bill Cobb

The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, and Your Freedom by Andrew J. Galambos

Symposium on Freedom Lectures by Andrew J. Galambos

The Ernst Zundel Interview of William W. Martin by Bill Cobb

STIP-2: A Lecture Series on Nothing by Andrew J. Galambos

V-50: The Basic Course of the Volitional Sciences Three-Session Introduction by Andrew J. Galambos

Adventures in an Age of Innocence by William W. Martin

Sic Itur Ad Astra by Andrew J. Galambos - Limited Special First Edition