It's a work in progress, we certainly are living in a Philip K. Dickesque reality, but nobody really knows what's going specifically. There's obviously something above humans that is managing the human farm and part of the plan involves faking space travel and getting us to fuse with technology (hence social media and smartphones, which make the transition to transhumanism seamless, we are already cyborgs).
Much of the Gnostic myhos seems to be unnecesary bullshit from antiquity but again, we really are living in a controlled construct where everything suffers and dies, and almost everyone can agree that aliens could exist. If you mix the idea of aliens with the global conspiracy and the Gnostic ideas you get kind of a promising amalgam.