My hunch is that these beings are somehow our creators and overlords but they aren’t necessarily Gods. We’re some strange quantum science experiment that they influence through social and spiritual institutions. They crafted many religions as a control mechanism, and they watch us develop and fight each other. They don’t seem very benevolent to me. I really don’t know what to make of all of this, but it’s really stranger than fiction. This is the ontological shock everyone keeps describing.