And while I'm not the expert, the author would have it mean overcoming alienation from the One through mystical experience in the form of a tune. For that Dylan uses his egregious skill to stride fragmentation and string coincidences, feelings, and experience, to convey a universal melody. There is no need to delve the entire article for more, as it's more of the same. Symbols are abandoned but we return to Eden. Words preclude access, but poetry is the thing.
How about you? You have a predilection to mystic conservatism?
Thing is this was written eight years before Bob resolved all that by coming to Christ. He was asking all the right questions. Then, he found the answer.