ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how Creativity (C) and Spirituality (S)-related Well-Being Systems uniquely support choice-making and feelings of well-being. The capacity for creativity was present early on, but the evidence seems to indicate that a complex mix of biological and social factors was required in order for it to become fully expressed, something that had happened by the time of the Lascaux cave art. Most psychologists agree that intelligence, in particular the special kind of intelligence involved in putting together seemingly unrelated ideas, is an essential quality of creativity. There are other important factors also thought to contribute to creativity and spirituality, including factors related to the social environment such as support and interaction with others. Creativity and spirituality always have two parts: originality and functionality. Over human evolutionary history both types of creativity and spirituality have evolved, but it seems reasonable to assume that big-C/S likely evolved out of little-c/s.
