He was a producer at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française from 1952 to 1974, and was one of the first high-profile practitioners of Eastern religion in France.
He worked on television documentaries about spiritual traditions not well known to many Europeans at the time, including Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism from Afghanistan.
He was part of the George Gurdjieff group, his first contact with mysticism.
He met a spiritual teacher, Swami Prajnanpad, whom he got to know after filming a number of mystics from various traditions.
He became a practitioner of Adhyatma yoga, which is a branch of Advaita Vedanta.