The Great Glass Room Test

One of the hard things about manifestation is assessing our own progress. While we do have “external” reality to measure our success by (in an ultimate sense), it’s not best practice to constantly look toward the “3D” for validation. Really, we don’t want to have to look toward the external world at all. Changes in the external are not our primary goal; what we’re really striving to do is change our internal state and have the 3D change as a simple consequence of that.

In other words, we’re trying to develop faith — so we need a way to measure our faith if we want a clear picture of how we’re progressing. The following exercise can allow you to assess your faith quickly and simply.

The Great Glass Room Test

Imagine you’re in an empty room with walls made of glass. Your one and only goal is to stay in the room — to not exit it for any reason. If you can do that, you pass, and you get whatever it is you want to manifest.

Sounds simple enough. But there’s a twist.

Somewhere you can’t see, there’s a man named Mr. 3D whose only goal is to get you out of the room. He can’t come inside and force you out, but he can entice/antagonize you into exiting by putting anything he’d like outside the glass. Basically, he can dangle temptations (either positive or negative) in front of your face in an attempt to get you to move.

Which leads us to twist number two… You don’t exit this room by getting up and walking out of it. You exit it mentally — the second you are even tempted to leave the room, you teleport out of it immediately.

So, this test is not a test of endurance. Mr. 3D isn’t trying to see how long you can endure his temptations; he’s trying to see what, if anything, can tempt you to exit the room at all. If he can figure out a way to tempt you, he wins.

Let’s say I really want a new car. I go and sit down inside the great glass room, and the test begins. What might Mr. 3D dangle in front of me?

Perhaps he starts by setting up a scene of people laughing at my crappy current car. He tells me, “I can stop them laughing at you, but you have to leave the room for me to do that.”

Am I tempted to leave so he stops the laughter? If so, I fail the test.

Maybe he sets up a scene of me pulling up to a friend’s house in a fancy new convertible and having everyone I know come outside to admire it. He says, “I can make this a reality if you just come outside.”

Is this scene enticing enough that, even for a moment, I feel compelled to take Mr. 3D up on his offer?

Maybe he runs through 50 different things and can’t tempt me with any of them. When he gets to the end, he says, “Fine, don’t cooperate — but just so you know, the creators of this test lied to you; staying in the room won’t get you what you want. And, if you don’t come out right now, you’ll have missed your final chance at your manifestation occurring — if you choose to stay in the room at this point, it’s a guarantee you’ll never get what you want.”

Are you tempted to believe him? If so, you fail.

Here’s the great thing about this exercise: It’s a pseudo-prisoner’s experiment. You know from the outset that if you can only stay in the glass room (i.e., not be tempted in the slightest to exit it), you are guaranteed to get what you want. The only way you can fail the test is if Mr. 3D is able to sew doubt in your mind or convince you that he can provide an equal guarantee of your manifestation more immediately.

As a result of this, your faith is tested directly. If you were truly certain that your manifestation would come if you only remained in the room without being tempted, then nothing could ever tempt you. To see the truth of this, all you have to do is minimize the timeframe in which the experiment takes place — instead of Mr. 3D being allowed to try and tempt you until he runs out of ideas, imagine you only had to stay in the room for 2 minutes.

If I said to you, “Stay in this room for two minutes, and you’ll get $10 million in cash,” could anything said otherwise make you want to exit? Even if Mr. 3D told you, “Hey, there’s $10 million in cash in a briefcase right outside the room,” you wouldn’t move an inch. You’d never risk a guaranteed $10 million for a potential $10 million. Your faith would never come into question.

You can run yourself through this test as often as you want, and in just a few minutes, you’ll have a clear sense of how your faith is developing. Maybe when you first start, you’re tempted immediately by the first thing you can think Mr. 3D might put in front of you. But as you progress and progress, your faith develops, and you become less likely to be tempted by anything. And, at the point where you cannot think of anything that would tempt you to leave the room, you’ll know your faith is 100% solid.

It’ll be easy to go out into the world and maintain your desired state once you’ve passed this test. After all, the world is just an expanded version of the great glass room test — your consciousness is the glass room, and the world is Mr. 3D. All your manifestation practice is aimed at residing perpetually within the boundaries of your own consciousness, no matter what occurs “externally” to you.

If you can just maintain your faith, then it doesn’t matter what temptations the world throws your way, be them positive things that might entice you or negative things that might antagonize you — you’ll always remain steadfast in the knowledge that the thing you want is already yours.

As always, good luck.