Toward Ecosophy

When I was young and I had an earache my dad would take a sheet of newspaper and roll it up tightly into a funnel, then have me lean over our cast iron enameled bath tub, stick the funneled paper into the offending ear, and light the other end on fire. Every time he did that the ear stopped hurting. He explained that it helped correct a pressure imbalance in the inner ear.

I always thought the candles would function the same.