Does Everyone Really Create Their Own Reality?

Yes, I believe that we create our own reality. That if we expect to fail we will fail, that if we believe there is no such thing as legitimate work from home, that is exactly what we will find, etc. "Visualize and Achieve" comes to mind, as well as the "Power of Positive Thinking", and "The Secret". I don't think any of this has much to do with "religion" as it has to do with tuning into our own abilities and trying to make sense of things we do not yet completely understand. I do think, however, that hanging onto many current religious beliefs actually inhibit our own growth, evolution and understanding. Rather than explore the how and why of things like "miracles" (for example), we attribute them to a god or a book or a prophecy, wave them off, and the thinking/rationalization process instantly halts. I look forward to the scientific discoveries, especially in the area of natural law as it relates to psychic phenomenon. Dogs can hear pitches of sound that we can't hear, etc. It only makes sense to me that there are things out there (energies, abilities, maybe even planes of existence) that are there that we also are not able (at the current time) to "sense" or "experience".