By spiritual development is meant God-consciousness. There is a believer in God who may be called pious, but it is the Godconscious who become spiritual. It is the belief and realization that, "I do not exist, but God", which gives power to the healer to heal from a distance; also it is this realization that gives him the belief that his thought can reach to any distance, because the knowledge of the all-pervading God gives him the realization that the Absolute is life in itself, and that even space, which means nothing to the average person, is everything; in fact, it is the very life of all things.