Bob Dylan Claims He Was 'Transfigured' in the Sixties: Kidding or Crazy?

In the most recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Bob Dylan revealed some startling information about his past -- or should I say -- what he thinks happened in his past. After reading a book about the Hell's Angels and learning that a Hell's Angels leader with the same name as him (Robert Zimmerman) was killed in a motorcycle accident, Dylan came to believe that he is the transfigured form of the biker. (Some religions teach that transfiguration is the transformation from the physical form to the spiritual form.) It's unclear as to whether Dylan thinks he is possessed by the biker or is in fact a ghost of the biker.

Later in the interview, when pressed for more information on the matter, Dylan insisted "You can go and learn about it from the Catholic Church...You can learn about it in some old mystical books, but it's a real concept...So when you ask your questions you're asking them to a person who's long dead. You're asking them to a person that doesn't exist." Now this seems strange, even by Dylan standards, so I have to wonder if he's kidding (he does have an offbeat sense of humor) or if he's just gotten a little crazy through age. What do you think?

ROLLINGSTONE.COM reports:
In a startling stretch of his interview with Rolling Stone,Bob Dylan assigns a special spiritual significance to the death of Robert Zimmerman, the president of the San Fernando chapter of the Hells Angels, in the Sixties.