LeRoy Eldridge Cleaver was one of the co-founders of the Blank Panther party. He was known for his radical and Marxist positions during the 1960's. He went on a spiritual quest and concluded in 1984 that the LDS church was the true church on Earth. He became LDS.
"I used to be a Marxist and I used to think all our problems were economic and political. But at the end of the day I found out that our main problems are spiritual problems. Because the connection between people and between Creation and the creator is not a political connection, it’s not an economic connection, it’s a spiritual connection. Your creator lays down markers in your life—you don’t know what all this is happening for." - LeRoy Eldridge Cleaver
"...he told me about the mystical experience that led to his awareness of the root of the world’s problems. He was in exile in France in the 70s, and one evening, while looking at the moon, he saw what appeared to be "almost like a movie." He saw images of his communist heroes—Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao Tse Tung—parade across the face of the moon. One by one, each image fell away, until an image of Jesus appeared and stayed. He realized then that his answers were not political or economic, but spiritual."
Source:
One Journey Home: Eldridge Cleaver's Spiritual Path
by Linda Neale
EarthLight Magazine #50, Spring 2004
URL: www.earthlight.org/2004/essay50_neale.html
