Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

As part of my being booked as George Noory’s sole guest for the first two hours of the June 15, 2018 edition of Coast to Coast AM, the show ’s executive producer Lisa Lyon asked me to provide the show with 15 questions Noory could use to know what I was willing to talk about on the air. Thus the following which I’ve edited into a more general article.

After a week of being promoted as the June 15^th guest on the Coast to Coast AM website – right up to show time—I never went on. Twenty minutes before air time Lisa phoned me to cancel, no reason given.

Justin Ptak phoned into the show during the Open Lines Friday segment in the last hour and Noory said he would re-schedule me. We’ll see if that ever happens. – J. Neil Schulman, June 16, 2018.

J. Neil Schulman is the author of 18 books including 4 novels, which have been praised by A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess, Oscar-winning legend Charlton Heston, Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, and science-fiction grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein. He's also the screenwriter for one of the best remembered 1980's CBS The Twilight Zone—"Profile in Siver"—about a future historian who travels back in time to the JFK assassination and screws up history by stopping it. Neil is also the writer/producer/director and actor of two movies currently streaming on Amazon Prime—Lady Magdalene's starring Star Trek's original Uhura, Nichelle Nichols—and Alongside Night starring Kevin Sorbo, Jake Busey, Tim Russ, and other stars. He's also a journalist who's written for major newspapers and magazines.

1. Neil, your just-published new science-fiction novel is The Fractal Man, an Amazon Kindle selling for only ninety-nine cents that can be found on Amazon using the link http://thefractalman.com. But I understand this science fiction is based on real-life experiences you've had. How did that come about?

JNS: The Fractal Man is an autobiography of lives I've lived in alternate universes—called paraverses in the novel— and that the book's narrator is only one fractal—a version—of myself, based on different lives I've lived in different timelines. I believe that when an author creates characters based on himself these are drawn from real lives in alternate timelines. The idea of multiple universes is real science based on both Einstein's general relativity and Schrodinger's quantum mechanics.

 

2. What are some of these other lives your characters are based on?

JNS: All these fractal lives in the novel are based on real events in my own life. Based on these real events I could have ended up as a virtuoso violinist like my father Julius Schulman, or an engineer based on a flying belt design my cousin submitted to General Electric when I was 11, or a photojournalist or art photographer based on newspaper photojournalism and art photography I was doing when I was 14, or a billionaire based on my being the first publisher of digital books by bestselling authors, sold on the General Electric Network for Information Exchange—GEnie—beginning in 1989, a decade before Jeff Bezos did this with Amazon.

 

3. I understand that you've had personal experience of jumping between timelines. Is this anything like what's been called the Mandela Effect?

JNS: I've crossed into other timelines a lot and I've put a lot of these experiences into The Fractal Man. My experiences are different from the ones called the Mandela Effect but they're even more dramatic. I've had the house next door disappear. People I've known personally who have died have reappeared as alive years later with all evidence that they died disappearing. I describe an incident in a coffee shop where a baked potato I'd ordered a hundred times—scooped out and rebaked as mashed potato with cheddar cheese—suddenly becomes a potato with a slice of American cheese melted over it and when I asked the waitress and restaurant manager who I'd known for years about the change they both said that the American cheese slice is how it had always been served.

 

4. Have you ever had other paranormal experiences?

JNS: Yes. I've had out of body experiences where I traveled while asleep to an Inn I'd never been to 3,000 miles away where out-of-body I saw a plaque on the wall about General Lee, and when I phoned the owners the next day they confirmed I'd seen a real plaque about a British general named Lee who'd burned the inn down during the American Revolution. I've OBE'd while asleep in Southern California to an ancient temple in Peru which I found on Google the next day. And I had an OBE that took me to Heaven where my late father guided me around and where I met my late grandmother who looking like she was sixteen was working at a store selling candy. The next morning my Mom told me that my grandmother had worked in her father's candy store (my great-grandfather who I was named after) when she was young.

I've also had precognition before my grandfather died, and when I first saw the woman who became my wife I heard a voice that told me, "If you ask her to dance you will marry her." I did and we did.

 

5. You wrote a 1999 book titled The Frame of the Century? reinvestigating the O.J. Simpson murder trials. Why did you do that?

JNS: It started when after the verdict against O.J. in the civil trial I saw O.J.'s supposed friend Ron Shipp hugging O.J.'s worst enemy, Fred Goldman. That cognitive dissonance caused me to start my own investigation which led me to meet O.J., Ron Shipp, and both friends and family of O.J. who had information that hadn't come out in either trial.

 

6. What kind of information?

JNS: A friend of O.J.'s named Thomas McCollum— living on the east coast—got a phone call from Ron Shipp telling him about the murders while getting his kids ready for school. This was even before any of the LAPD detectives had left the Bundy crime scene, gone to O.J.'s Rockingham estate, or spoken to anyone there. Then Shipp lied on the stand during O.J.’s criminal trial saying he'd found out the murders at 10 AM the next day when he got a phone call while standing in a bank line.

 

7. What did your O.J. investigation lead you to conclude?

JNS: That O.J. Simpson did not commit the murders a criminal jury acquitted him for. That the actual murderers, possibly whom Nicole owed drug money to—not LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman—framed O.J. to shut him up by drawing O.J. into the murder scene and contaminating himself with blood after the murders.  That O.J. has virtually confessed to the murders to protect his children from threats from the real murderers.

 

8. Tell me about your other fiction and nonfiction books.

JNS: Using the link http://thefractalman.com takes you to the Amazon Kindle link and clicking on my author's name brings you to an Amazon page with most of my books. Both my movies – Lady Magdalene ’s and Alongside Night – stream on Amazon Video and Amazon Prime but they do not show on my Amazon author’s page, which only lists books.

My first 1979 novel Alongside Night—I wrote, produced, and directed it as a movie released on 2014 and now streaming on Amazon Video and Amazon Prime—is about the economic collapse of the U.S. due to government overspending and the hyperinflation monetization of unfinanced government debt causes.

My second 1983 novel The Rainbow Cadenza is about a future society where a young woman who's an artist in visual music is drafted by the government for a term of service as a sex slave in a government bureaucracy.

My third novel Escape from Heaven is about a radio talk show host who gets the first-ever call in from God—and after having angels take the radio host to Heaven for a breakfast meeting with the Trinity he's sent back to Earth as the campaign manager for Jesus in a worldwide election for control of Earth run against Jesus's ex-wife, Satan.

I have a collection of my short fiction called Nasty, Brutish, and Short Stories which includes the lead story in Carol Serling's Adventures in the Twilight Zone and a story first published in the award-winning Tor anthology, Free Space.

I have a book titled The Heartmost Desire in which I talk about my February 18, 1997 eight-hour-while-awake Vulcan Mindmeld With God.

 

9. Stop right there. You had a Vulcan Mindmeld with God? What's that about?

JNS: It was the culmination of a bunch of paranormal psychic experiences I'd been having, mostly while asleep or out of body. But this time I was fully awake during the eight-hour experience in which God let me use his own ability to look at people the way he did—seeing their "heartmost desire"—what it is that motivates their lives. He also let me look at my own life the way he saw it. I've written about this extensively in The Heartmost Desire but it's also broken out in a separate Amazon Kindle titled I Met God – God Without Religion, Scripture, or Faith, and another Kindle titled Atheist to Believer .

 

10. It's hard to top that but what about your other books?

JNS: I wrote a book about guns and gun control – a topic more controversial than ever today—titled Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns, and it was praised on the book cover by Academy-award-winner Charlton Heston, who gave away copies at a Charlton Heston Celebrity Shoot. I followed it up with a book on political and economic issues titled Self Control Not Gun Control, praised by Walter Williams.

More recently I collected a bunch of articles and humor into an Amazon Kindle titled J. Neil Schulman's The Book of Words, and my own answer to Mao's Little Red Book is my own short book, Unchaining the Human Heart—A Revolutionary Manifesto, which is about how all human happiness depends on individual liberty.

 

11. What about the two movies you wrote, produced, directed, and even acted in?

JNS: Lady Magdalene's is a 2008 suspense comedy about what happens when terrorists use a legal Nevada brothel as a staging ground for an operation but run into trouble because the brothel is in tax default and federal agents are on their tail. I play a dumb terrorist in this movie and the lead is Nichelle Nichols who plays the brothel madam. I wrote an original gospel song for the movie—sung by Nichelle, who toured with Duke Ellington before she did Star Trek—titled "Rahab The Harlot." The movie won three film festival awards including one from the San Diego Black Film Festival.

My second movie was Alongside Night about the near future collapse of the economy from government overspending and inflation, which played at conventions and festivals in 2013 and had a Beverly Hills premiere in 2014, followed by a limited theatrical release. It stars Kevin Sorbo (and his real-life wife, Sam) from Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Tim Russ and Garret Wang from Star Trek Voyager, Jake Busey from Starship Troopers and Contact, Mara Marini from Parks and Recreation, Said Faraj who played opposite Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass's movie about the Iraq war, The Green Zone, and Gary Graham who played on the Fox series and TV movies, Alien Nation. There's also a sequence in the Alongside Night movie from Silicon Assassin, a web series by my friend Brad Linaweaver starring Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica, who also directed the clip I used, 

 

12. Did you really predict in 1987 how this book publishing industry would switch over from bookstores to what you called paperless books?

JNS: Yes. I wrote an article called "Here Come The Paperless Books!" distributed as a pamphlet at the American Booksellers Convention in 1987. It got me coverage in the Wall Street Journal, computer magazines, the New York Times website, and a full page cartoon in Esquire. I then started SoftServ Publishing in 1989 to sell digital books by bestselling authors including Piers Anthony, Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison, and in 1995 a web-based ebook publishing company called Pulpless.Com. If I'd had more financing I could have cornered the market on eBook publishing before Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Everything Jeff Bezos did with Kindle editions and Kindle editions was in my original 1989 business plan.

 

13. Aside from your books and movies you've also written for newspapers and magazines?

JNS: My first career was selling photography to local newspapers when I was 14. Then I got involved with a small magazine called New Libertarian Notes which got famous when I gave it a six-part interview with science-fiction great Robert Heinlein. I later wrote Op-Eds and humor for the Los Angeles Times, wrote for William F. Buckley's National Review, and short humor for Reader's Digest.

 

14. What else should readers know about you?

JNS: I'm the surviving founder of what's called Agorism, which is using underground counter-economics to build a more libertarian society. What Agorism is and how it works is shown in both my first novel Alongside Night—and in the movie—and in my new novel The Fractal Man. The other founder named Samuel Edward Konkin III—who died 14 years ago—is the other main character shown as surviving fractals of the real man in The Fractal Man, In fact, the novel begins when this character comes back from the dead in an alternate timeline. I ’m working on my next novel, The Metronome Misnomer, a suspense thriller dealing with arbitration, and I’ve just come out with a new Amazon Kindle titled Origitent – Why Original Content is Property . It includes the arguments from the other side and the Introduction is by Stephan Kinsella.

 

15. Where can readers find you?

JNS: First of all, using the link http://thefractalman.com, on Amazon. Also on Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Or just Google J. Neil Schulman and that will find my personal website jneilschulman.com, which links to everything else. On that website are my full bio and current list of books, and much more.