( Paul Laffoley)

"As a felt and lived sensibility, Utopic space has a generic religious base because the concept of “Utopia” as Saint Thomas (1478-1535) said in his book of 1516, (who coined the term) Utopia means “Heaven on Earth”. This is an ontic state distinct from both heaven and earth, a situation that states that which has not history connects directly with that which has only history. What Saint Thomas Moore is describing is a reference to the major portal between eternity and time that the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC) immortalized in one of his last dialogues, the pythagoreau cosmology of Timaeus.
Space (or the nurse of becoming) provides the matrix for the platonic forms from eternity to impress themselves into the multifarious copies of the forms which we experience in time. For humanity, whether at the collective or the individual realm, Utopic Space expresses itself on the day-to-day basis as a total compassionate love for all living things including oneself."

Paul Laffoley lecture, beginning with B. Fuller's Utopia or Oblivion