About me

Werner Erich Popp was not content with his "bread and butter" profession due to his wide range of interests, but was also active in sport and worked as a trainer in the Japanese budo sports of judo, karate and aikido. In 1968, he was the only German fighter and member of the European team to take part in the first karate world championships after the Olympic Games in Mexico City.

He began practicing Japanese Zen meditation regularly at the age of 16 and, as is customary in Japan, experienced a kensho experience after four years, an initial "enlightenment experience" with an unexpected sudden "expansion" of consciousness into the "boundless", which brought about lasting lifelong existential changes.

His interest in astrology from the age of 20 and later interdisciplinary correspondence courses in psychology, higher programming languages and other subjects earned him offers of a dissertation in criminology and one in psychology and statistics, which he turned down in view of his career as a criminal investigator with the Federal Criminal Police Office. However, he ended this voluntarily and prematurely, through no fault of his own, as he learned years later.

He used his early retirement for "excursions" into the private sector, including management consultancy at PLOENZKE Consult AG in Wiesbaden and as an IT lecturer at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences and at KDM Sicherheitsconsulting in Frankfurt.

His astrological consulting and research activities have accompanied him alongside his professional activities to this day. When a board member of the Cosmobiological Academy (KAA) heard his lecture at the German Astrological Association (DAV), he was invited to join, as the KAA is the only German astrology association that conducts concrete research. From around 2010 until the Covid pandemic, Popp gave an annual lecture there on his latest research findings.