All of the appreciation gifts that we offer here, for your tax deductible donations and contributions, are original productions and creations from The Cosmic Detective - with art and graphics by Laura Jean Thompson Art DesignZz - and are only available from YOUtopia INstitute.  Secure Online acceptance of credit cards and checks . FREE shipping , NO TAX! 

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3/4" base, 1" high, includes bale. Each individually cast upon request. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

 

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3/4" base, 1" high, includes bale. Each individually cast upon request. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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3/4" base, 1" high, includes bale. Each individually cast upon request. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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3/4" base, 1" high, includes bale. Each individually cast upon request. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

 

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10" x 13 3/4" x 3 1/4" Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

 

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Dinner plate, Salad plate, Bowl and Cup: Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

 

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Dinner plate, Salad plate, Cup: Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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Dinner plate, Salad plate, Cup: Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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Dinner plate, Salad plate, Bowl and Cup: Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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Dinner plate, Salad plate, Bowl and Cup: Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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Dinner plate, Salad plate, Bowl and Cup: Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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#5 - red wash & white, 6" x 3 1/2" x 3"; #8 - cranberry, 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 3" Original hand painted art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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Blue wash & white, glazed finish, 3 3/4" x 2" x 1 5/8." Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

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4 1/2" x 2 1/4" Original hand painted ceramic art work by Laura Jean Thompson. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for shipment.

4 of 13 songs written, arranged, saxophone, vocal, and produced by THE COSMIC DETECTIVE, DD - The place to start, in this global healing process, is with the self and our relationships with others, and on to the problems with the elements of the global environment, and such. The words and music on this CD focus on the practical starting point. 1. WHAT'S YOUR GAME? - With a Funk groove, is a call for honest inner intent and behavior self evaluation to get to Know Thy Self in order to allow BEing True to the Self, first. 2. GIT OFF - Up tempo Jazz instrumental is a reminder to enjoy living to the fullest, without going off on anybody else. 3. FOR ALL THE GOOD TIMES - An instrumental with a New Orleans dirge feeling is about remembering and appreciating all of the good times, although we acknowledge that some of the times were and are not as good as we would like. 4. MAYBE LATER? - A Blues like vocal tune is about freeing ourselves, until maybe later, without malice, from relationships with individuals, politicians, religions, organizations, corporations, or even well meaning but ignorant friends that have lied to us or not told us the truth, too often. We are recording the other 9 tunes right now, for release in January 2003.

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Quiet as it's kept, this was the place actually chosen for the first Settlement of the Europeans on this continent by the man, Sir Christopher Newport, who lead the exploratory party up the James River after 'the three ships' had crossed the Atlantic Ocean. And, where General Grant had his headquarters on the banks of the James River. During the siege on Petersburg (where The Cosmic Detective was born in 1943, at the end of World War II) and Richmond that ended The Civil War - President Lincoln visited General Grant there three weeks before his assassination - during which time the port there was the busiest port in America. And, where DuPont's gun cotton factory was located during World War I, that lead to it's becoming "The Chemical Capitol of the South" until the sign was removed from Highway 95, in recent years, at the beginning of an image change to attract tourist. (Cover photo by The Cosmic Detective of Grant's cabin as it stands there now, a 5 minute walk from a house that The Cosmic Detective lived in as a child and again from 1990 to 1993)

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Autobiographical direct and audacious ("uppity") account of one Homo Sapiens's -- who has been labeled, at various times, “a poor little Nigger”, “a Colored person”, “a Negro”, “a Black person”, “an African American”, and so on -- personal experiences and thoughts about being, seeing, learning, re-membering, real-I-zations, understanding and so on from the Divine perspective of “Myself as a part of the Whole” in terms of relationship with immediate blood line/biological family to Cosmic Identity, “extraterrestrial” relatives, society, politics, religion, mythology, science and sacred sex, an so on...to come to know that I AM “a figment of my imagination,” so to speak. A version of, what the discarnate physicist Heinz Pagel (Elaine Pagel’s deceased husband) termed, “First person science” in his marvelous book PERFECT SYMMETRY. In the words of Alice Walker, “This is what the world is made of. It is made of people passing on their stories - dying, but not until they’ve done it." This is some of my story: The Cosmic Detective

Videotaped by The Cosmic Detective - featuring Reverend JESSE LOUIS JACKSON preaching "...a country preacher in a country church, preaching to country folks." (Rev. Curtis Harris), and Ms. ROBERTA FLACK playing the piano and singing with the King Sisters (Gospel group) and choir from the pulpit of Ms. Flack's father's "back woods country church," MT. Hope Baptist Church, in Prince George, Virginia, packed to overflowing on the historic occasion, in 1983, of the launching of the "Voter Registration Drive" which resulted in the registering of more new registered voters than any other Presidential candidate in the history of the United States of America "...from protest to politics..." (Dr. Lamont Godwin, Washington Bureau Chief, at that time, of Operation Push) on the way to JUSTICE, the Rainbow Coalition, two campaigns for the U.S. Presidency by Reverend Jackson, and much more for all of us, which included, some years later, bringing a captured US Air Force pilot safely home from captivity and possible preventing the start of another war, and not the least of which was, some years afterwards, the election of one of his sons to the United States Senate... 1 hour and 39 minutes VHS videotape $25 (or more) tax deductible donation -- Jesse Jackson is currently taking a leadership role, along with the National Council of Churches, and others, to help prevent an unnecessary war with Iraq, and the perpetuation of endless war for the future, as espoused and promoted by the current leadership of The United States of America.

 

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Videotaped by The Cosmic Detective - featuring Mr. RAYMOND V. HAYSBERT, Sr., former President and CEO of Parks Sausage Company, Inc. Rated number 19 among the top 50 African American owned businesses in the USA at the time of this recording at Virginia State University. Mr. Haysbert, a self described entrepreneur, points out that ''The entrepreneur is the backbone of this country.'' And in this Comprehensive, Concise and Enjoyable Business Presentation, Mr. Haysbert relates the growth story of the multimillion dollars a year, publicly traded Parks Sausage Company and speaks about Business Principles, Modern Marketing, Creative Financing, Qualifying Employees, Advertising, Inspiring, Motivating and more... 1 hour VHS videotape $15(or more) tax deductible donation. Click here for archive of information about who Raymond V. Haysbert is and what he has been, and is, doing with his time.