Thok Søndergaard
| Thok Søndergaard | |
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| Birthday | January 13, 1919 |
| Birth info | Randers, Denmark |
| Died on | 22 February 2004 |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Org. Affiliation(s) | SH England, Sea Org [more data needed] |
| Posts | First Mate (more data needed) |
Pre-Scientology[edit | edit source]
Thok was an artist and worked in films. In the Danish Film Himlen er Blå (1956 The Sky is Blue) he played an artist with a lot of the Danish top actors. He did early children's TV (Danish) cartoons. In the beginning of the 60s Thok worked with Professor Kapok og Mekaniker Nik which was a puppet show, where the two figures fly around in a balloon. It was a weekly series which ran for a few years and Thok wrote the story.
Scientology[edit | edit source]
When in England for his work, someone at the place he was staying mentioned Scientology. He had psychological problems. An early book was A History of Man and this was just the ticket, for he was mentally seeing things which made him wonder if he was mad, and HoM explained them.
In the 60s he joined Saint Hill staff with the express purpose of using his artistic talent for Scientology. He made one 16 mm. animated film about affinity, more were planned and he made animated titles for the Clearing Course films.
He was in at the start of the Sea Org, one of the chosen few Saint Hill staff on the "Sea Project". [much more data needed on whole Sea Org career, please!]
He illustrated two, three or four Scientology Policy Letters, with his famous cartoon figure. He translated OT II nd OT III materials to Danish, and worked on the Danish translation of Scientology books, his name is credited as translator of the first Danish edition of Problems of Work (Arbejdets Problemer) together with Ole Raben Smidt.
In the 70s for a time, apparently out of the Sea Org, he helped at AOSH EU&SA by filing pc folders.
Outside organisational Scientology[edit | edit source]
He was well known in the Splinter movement (Free Zone) in Denmark. He was interested in Origami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami and was invited a number of times to the Japanese Origami association at their expense. When he did not die at the age of 80 as he expected, he did not know what to do, and so set up a commemorative Internet site (for himself) filled with his cartoon figures, which unfortunately was not maintained after his death.
Two examples of his many small drawings:
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Articles[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
In Issue 2 of International Viewpoints (An LRH commemorative issue) Thok wrote of his reminiscences of Ron on page 19. http://articles.ivymag.org/pdf/ivy02.pdf (as above: Articles)