Yes, what I have heard and experienced is that we ARE the creators of our reality, and it is our BELIEFS which create-manifest what comes into our experience. The problem is, most of what we believe and think is SUBconscious, so we have no idea what's "in there" manifesting what comes to us until it comes into our experience.
Thats the problem with "The Secret". While it's inherently based on truth, one can't simply "order from the giant catalog of the universe" whatever one wants because most of us have subconscious beliefs that say we are not WORTHY of what we want.
This is what we are evolving to learn so intensely right now. 4th dimension consciousness says that we are responsible for ALL of our experience, and that the subconscious beliefs that WE made up create our reality.
5th dimension consciousness says that with unconditional SELF love, we forgive ourselves for making up beliefs of unworthiness, which are an extension of the ultimate belief that manifests suffering-that we ever separated from GOD. THEN we are in a state of ONENESS because we have chosen to LOVE OURSELVES first....we can not BE that which we do not allow ourselves access too...
So, we DO create our own reality...this is a very, very important truth to become willing to embrace if we are to evolve into 4th and 5th dimensional consciousness.
Spirit sources tell me that self forgiveness is the fastest way to enlightenment, and is most certainly what's called for now to move through these amazing changes.
Everything we are watching manifest "out there" right now is being created by US, and is a mirror of where humanity is in the COLLECTIVE in this process of awakening. EVERYTHING I see I am creating into my reality.
We can not become masters and conscious creators until we accept that we create all of our experience. That's how creation "expands" itself-by creating more self realized creators!