@kickingvegas ad "Import #Markdown to Org with the Clipboard in #Emacs" from http://yummymelon.com/devnull/import-markdown-to-org-with-the-clipboard-in-emacs.html
I'm using a similar method "my-convert-region-from-markdown-to-orgdown" from https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs/blob/master/config.org
Does your method suffer from the same issue which I still have? Converted heading levels are always starting at level 1 and not the heading level of the current sub-tree I'm yanking to.
Therefore, I yank to *scratch* and need to search/replace heading markers to match the levels I currently need ...