The human spirit has the ability to go somewhere in the spiritual realm

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A human has a human spirit, and 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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A human has a human spirit:
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People can go somewhere with their spirit while absent in their body:
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The human spirit has faculties analogous to the physical body, which can include movement/locomotion.

A human is created in God's image. The spirit of a human has several abilities that are similar to the Spirit of God. One ability that God has is the ability to send His own Spirit/presence somewhere. 

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The human spirit has faculties:

The human spirit has spiritual senses.

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Spiritual senses of the human spirit:
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The same way that the human spirit has senses (sight, hearing, touch) analogous to the physical body, the human spirit also has faculties (speaking, movement/locomotion) analogous to the physical body. 

For example, a human can be assumed to have the ability to go up in the spiritual realm by their own agency, as it may be implied in the following passage: "I-saw, and behold, (there was an) opened door IN HEAVEN, and the first voice which I-heard speaking with me like (the sound of a) trumpet saying, “GO-UP [Active voice in Greek, imperative mood in Greek] HERE and I-will-show you (the things) which must take-place after these (things)”." (Revelation 4:1). 

In that passage, John was COMMANDED (as evidenced by the imperative mood in the Greek) to "GO-UP" (Revelation 4:1), which is a movement that needs to be done by John's human spirit, and this actively by John's own agency (evidenced by the use of the active voice for the Greek word "GO-UP") in the spiritual realm. This can imply an ability for John to obey that command, as can be evidenced also in the next verse where John ended up going up "in heaven" (Revelation 4:2).

A human is created in God's image:

A human is created in God's image, as it is written: "God created the man in His own image" (Genesis 1:27). 

The spirit of a human has several abilities that are similar to the Spirit of God:

Can be provoked: 

It is written about God: "they disobeyed (ἠπείθησαν 544 in Greek), and PROVOKED [paroxunó 3947 in Greek] his Holy Spirit" (Isaiah 63:10 (LXX)). 

It is written about a human: "(while) Paul (was) waiting-for them in Athens, his spirit WAS-BEING-PROVOKED [paroxunó 3947 in Greek] within him (while) observing the city being full-of-idols" (Acts 17:16). 

Can be grieved: 

It is written about God: "GRIEVE [lupeó 3076 in Greek] not the Holy Spirit (of) God" (Ephesians 4:30). 

It is written about a human: "King David heard of all these things, and was very angry; but he did not GRIEVE [lupeó 3076 in Greek] the spirit of his son Amnon" (2 Samuel 13:21 (LXX)). 

God has the ability to send His own Spirit/presence somewhere:

God has the ability to send His own Spirit somewhere, as it is written: "You will SEND FORTH YOUR SPIRIT" (Psalm 104:30). 

God's Spirit can also be interchangeable with His presence, as it is written in the following Hebrew parallelism: "Do not cast me away from YOUR PRESENCE; and do not remove YOUR HOLY SPIRIT from me" (Psalms 51:11). 

The same way that God has the ability to send His own Spirit/presence somewhere, a human who is created in His image may have the ability to send their own human spirit/presence somewhere. 

Indeed the spirit of a human is subject to that human, as it is written: "The spirits of prophets are SUBJECT TO prophets" (1 Corinthians 14:32). 

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