a fellow is grabbed, hypnotized, shoved into an electronic field, and then told he is somewhere else. and so he departs—most of him—and goes to the new location while still being under control of the implanters. he picks up a mest [physical] body in the new location and starts living a life there, "while still having a living body somewhere else". the implanters can keep his original body alive indefinitely, and control the thetan through it. if the thetan tries to flee, the hypnotizers simply cause pain to the original body, still alive in a vat of fluid, and he is immediately recalled. that's a body in pawn. it's a second body you may have, living somewhere else, right in present time. but the second body is not under your direct control.