What is happening to the body when going somewhere with the spirit?

Summary:

In the Bible, there are accounts in which people are going somewhere with their spirit while being absent in their body, that is, their body are not where their spirit goes. 

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There may be two ways to be present somewhere:

1) In the body.

2) In the spirit (with the spirit, without the body).

If someone goes somewhere only with their spirit, their body would be absent from that place.

Furthermore, the Bible indicates that it is possible that the body dies without the spirit, but this would be only under the condition that "the silver cord" (Ecclesiastes 12:6), the cord linking the body and the "spirit" (Ecclesiastes 12:7), is let go. 

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Two ways to be present somewhere: in the body and in the spirit:

There can be two ways to be present somewhere:

1) In the body.

2) In the spirit (with the spirit, without the body).

For example Paul wrote: "I, BEING-ABSENT (IN) THE BODY BUT BEING-PRESENT (IN) THE SPIRIT, have already judged" (1 Corinthians 5:3).

Here Paul said that he was "BEING-PRESENT (IN) THE SPIRIT" (1 Corinthians 5:3), even writing in the next verse about "YOU AND MY SPIRIT HAVING-BEEN-GATHERED-TOGETHER" (1 Corinthians 5:4).

However, in another sense, Paul was not present, as he wrote of "BEING-ABSENT (IN) THE BODY" (1 Corinthians 5:3) and makes a distinction in the same verse, writing: "but being-present (in) the spirit, have already judged, AS (THOUGH) BEING-PRESENT" (1 Corinthians 5:3), that is, as though being present in the body. 

For Paul there was a difference between present in the spirit only, and present in both body and spirit. 

If someone goes somewhere only with their spirit, their body would be absent from that place.

The body without the spirit dies... unless the silver cord is there:

James wrote: "THE BODY WITHOUT SPIRIT IS DEAD" (James 2:26). That is, when someone dies, their spirit leaves their body, as it is written when Jesus died: "Jesus, again having-cried-out (with a) loud voice, LET (HIS) SPIRIT GO" (Matthew 27:50).

But it is possible for people to go somewhere with their spirit, away from their body, and not die:

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The body only dies if the silver cord of the spirit is let go. It is written: "BEFORE THE SILVER CORD BE LET GO, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern; BEFORE the dust also return to the earth as it was, and THE SPIRIT RETURN TO GOD who gave it" (Ecclesiastes 12:6-7).

The silver cord is like a cord linking one's spirit and their body. When someone dies, this cord is let go, so that the spirit is now detached from the body. But unless the time of death comes, and the cord is let go, someone is able to go somewhere with their spirit away from their body without dying because they have a cord linking their spirit to their body. 

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