That’s why we need to cultivate a neutral, non-judging and non-dual perspective, and the insight of the truth, beyond illusion 
Use your intuition, your true self’s awareness, you will know whether you are cheated by your own preconceived assumption or not
And yes, I would call it an experiment so a scientist must be open to the result whatever it is instead of assuming “Oh this result is cheating me/I’m cheating my self to believe this result”. As scientist we should examine our result, firgure out the outside disturbing factors(“the darkness”, preconceived assumption, etc), eliminate them, get the conclusion 
And after all, you decide whether try this experiment or not
Your soul, your true self always have the POWER over any dark force. From source perspective, all darkness, is lesson, is divine play that we should go through
Just try and, have fun Love is not a tough, complex thing so don’t make it complex. Know that you have the power to love everything and all you need is to be aware of this power, use it.
Feel that you are always loved, by your guide, higher self, source the creator, feel the feeling of being loved unconditionally and you konw how to love unconditionally
And we have this