Converted on LSD

What the story is about

This is a true story of two brothers born in Oldham Lancashire, Michael John Clarke (1946 and David Clarke (1949).

The story portrays a remarkable change that took place in the life of David, on the night of 16th January 1970, when 20 years old, but left his brother Michael untouched. David was miraculously converted to faith in Christ when Jesus Christ actually spoke to him during a bad trip on LSD. His life was changed dramatically overnight from a life of crime, drug taking and promiscuity.

Both brothers influenced each other until this time (during the 50’s & 60’s) which lead to David serving time in Dover Borstal and Michael a two year prison sentence in Maidstone Prison for a charges of malicious wounding and theft.

Their live paths changed from the night 16th January 1970. David turning from his former life of crime to follow Jesus Christ, as best he could, whilst Michael was left to go his own way.

The story speaks in detail of all the significant events in David’s life from a child to the time of his conversion to Christ. Then his on going life, of peculiar difficulties, in learning to follow Jesus Christ.

In Michael’s case he had a lifetime of petty crime as a youth, which lead to two spells in Detention Centers, one Borstal sentence and then the two-year prison sentence in Maidstone Prison.

Michael’s path took him through a broken engagement after going to Gretna Green to get married to his 16-year old girl friend. This lead to work at Butlins, as a Blue coat worker, (as a means of escape). He then lived in Jersey in a tent.

He later sold all his house and goods and move to Spain living on his 8 meter Bobcat Catamaran, seeking to live a life of ease and enjoyment in the sun on the Mediterranean sea. After this his boat was smashed by a hurricane on the rocks in Denier Harbour and he returned to England. He then married and had a brief flamboyant life-style in business, eventually obtaining his Rolls Royce and owning his own businesses, building two or three houses. This finally ended company liquidation, depression and broken marriage.

His broken marriage lead him into various scams in Thailand. Then as a Travel Agent selling holidays where the main attraction was, “Adult Pleasures for men only”, in the philippines.This hit international news and television. He is now serving a 16-year prison sentence after being “set up” by a local headhunter in the Philippines for a crime he did not commit. It was feared at one time that he was going to get the death sentence for his crimes. He is now a broken man in body and heath having no hope for the future.

The account of David’s life includes a detailed account of how Jesus actually spoke to him that changed his life. It also includes many scriptural quotations showing his experience is truly of God. This conversion involved a court appearance confessing to 24 crimes, which hit the local news headlines and a remarkable conditional discharge. He also found himself on the front page when he sought to reach his old friends in crime through preaching. And again in 1982 he found himself in the news when he was expelled from St. Albans Abbey for staging a protest against a Roman Catholic Priest conducting mass, for the first time in 400 years, in the Anglican Abbey.

He later speaks of events, which led him to doubt God and turn from God in unbelief that led to a brief spell of immoral living and to divorce.

As David the King committed murder and adultery and turned from his sin finding mercy and grace in the sight of God so did this David and he too can say, “ Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight”.