When feeling (not thinking) is the point

Joseph Campbell, Ray Bradbury and seeking a human experience

Why did famed poet Edgar Allen Poe once say, “To be happy at any one point we must have suffered at the same. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed”? This quote was thrown up on the screen at the beginning of a recent episode of the hit survivalist series, Alone (Season 9 on Netflix). These people go out into the woods for a last-ma…