Bob Dylans Seventies Trouble with Witchy Women & the White Goddess Bob Dylan in his autobiography

Chronicles (2004) p 45:

I read The White Goddess by Robert Graves, too. Invoking the poetic muse was something I didnt know about yet. Didnt know enough to start trouble with it, anyway. In a few years time I would meet Robert Graves himself in London. We went out for a brisk walk around Paddington Square. I wanted to ask him about some of the things in his book, but I couldnt remember much about it.

On pre-conversion 1978-world-tour Bob, Clinton Heylin posing in one of his manifestations as the Holy Spirit in Behind the Shades:
If Dylan was on the run from the White Goddess he would need a strong patriarchal religion to hang onto.

In one of the two 1978 Rolling Stone interviews with Jonathan Cott this one published 16 November in response to Cotts question about Changing of the Guards treacherous young witches lyric, Bob Dylan replied: I meet witchy women. Somehow I attract them. I wish theyd leave me alone. Wilfrid Mellers in A darker shade of pale: A backdrop to Bob Dylan (1984) says Oh, Sister:
. . . shedding its evangelical tinge, emerges as a Tex-Mex number acrid in sonority and remorseless in tangoed rhythm, with gibbering and wailing voices off. The effect is sinister, perhaps because the song seems to have become a conflict between Dylans Christian Father and his sad-eyed lady earth goddess. Some such tension is latent in many of the gospel songs; indeed the fundamental ambiguity which makes Dylans work so rewarding is precisely this matriarchal-patriarchal synthesis or reconciliation.

From one of Dylans gospel raps: Montreal 22 April 1980, I think:

Thank you. I'm leaning on that solid rock, and you need that solid rock. There's a form of medium called Zen. They got a way of twisting things all around, make what's good seem bad and what's bad seem good. I was talking to a girl the other day who just lives from orgasm to orgasm. I know that's a strange thing, but that's what she's said to do because of these so-called modern times. But she's not satisfied . . .

You Changed My Life (1982):

There was someone in my body that I could hardly see Invading my privacy making my decisions for me Holding me back, not letting me stand Making me feel like a stranger in a strange land But you changed my life Came along in a time of strife You come down the line, give me a new mind You changed my life

Luke 11:20 King James Version (KJV)

20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

2012 Paul Kirkman, Messianic Dylanologist