A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.
Carl JungSynchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
Carl JungFor the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.
Carl JungIn thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
Carl Jung