[1][2][3] He is the author of numerous books including Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers and Explorer.

The year after, he went to central Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo) and Bali on an expedition.

[2] In 1975, he claimed to have seen a tiger in East Kalimantan, and published two photographs to support his statement.

[4] The authenticity of these photographs were doubted by Lord Medway, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, in 1977,[5] but accepted by Meijaard in 1999.

He considered the Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad to have "brought new thoughts, and in some instances, the truth" to a lot of people.