Going somewhere with the spirit can be initiated by God

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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People can go somewhere with their spirit while absent in their body:
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In the Bible, there are explicit accounts in which a person can be taken by God to experience this, that is, in those accounts they are described as PASSIVE and IT HAPPENS TO THEM. 

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One can passively be brought somewhere (by God ultimately):

Ezekiel 8:

It is written: "(the) hand of the LORD came upon me. And I looked, and, behold, a likeness of a Man; from His waist and as far as below fire, and from His waist upwards as an appearance of amber. And HE STRETCHED (THE) LIKENESS OF A HAND, and TOOK ME BY THE CROWN OF MY HEAD, AND (THE) SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP between the earth and between the sky, and BROUGHT ME TO JERUSALEM IN A VISION OF GOD, to the porches of the gate of the inside" (Ezekiel 8:3-4).

Ezekiel 11:

It is written: "(THE) SPIRIT TOOK ME UP, AND BROUGHT ME INTO (THE) LAND (OF THE) CHALDEANS, to the captivity, IN A VISION BY (THE) SPIRIT (OF) GOD" (Ezekiel 11:24).

Ezekiel 40:

It is written: "(THE) HAND (OF) THE LORD CAME UPON ME, AND BROUGHT ME IN A VISION OF GOD INTO THE LAND (OF) ISRAEL, and put me upon a very high mountain, and upon it as a building of a city before (me)" (Ezekiel 40:1-2).

2 Corinthians 12:

Paul wrote: "I-know (a) man in Christ, fourteen years ago, WHETHER IN (THE) BODY, I-DO NOT KNOW, OR OUTSIDE (OF) THE BODY, I-do not know. God knows, (that) SUCH (A ONE WAS) SNATCHED-AWAY [passive voice in the Greek] TO (THE) THIRD HEAVEN. And I-know such (a) man; WHETHER IN (THE) BODY OR APART-FROM THE BODY, I-do not know. God knows that HE-WAS-SNATCHED-AWAY [passive voice in the Greek] INTO PARADISE" (2 Corinthians 12:2-4).

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