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Manny Marc (born 1980 in Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany as Marc Schneider), is a German rapper and DJ. Manny Marc is the DJ of the South Berlin rap group Bass Crew, which consists of Frauenarzt, MC Basstard, and MC Bogy. In 1997 he founded the street gang Berlin Crime, with Frauenarzt, and in 1998 the independent label Bassboxxx. In 2006 he founded with Frauenarzt the Ghetto Musik label.

Mark Matousek Mark Matousek (born February 5, 1957) is an American memoirist, teacher, essayist, and journalist.

Matousek was born in Los Angeles, California. His father, James Matousek, disappeared when he was four, leaving his mother, Ida Kaplan, to raise him and his sisters in poverty. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Art from The University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa cum Laude), a Fellowship to Worcester College, Oxford in 1979, and a Masters Degree in English Literature from UCLA in 1981.

Matousek moved to New York City that same year, working as a stringer covering popular culture for Reuters, Int., then in the letters department of Newsweek Magazine. He was hired by Andy Warhol’s Interview in 1982, first as a proofreader then as the magazine's first senior editor. Over the next three years, Matousek conducted hundreds of interviews with prominent figures in film, television, books, fine art, politics, design, and science. Alarmed by the deaths of friends from AIDS, he quit his job in 1985 and spent the next years as an itinerant dharma bum and freelance journalist, living in Europe, India, and the United States. Drawn to eastern philosophy, especially Buddhism, Matousek shifted gears from pop culture to psychology, religion, and spiritual seeking, and became a contributing editor to Common Boundary Magazine, where his back page column, The Naked Eye, appeared from 1994-1999. Subsequently, he received a National Magazine Award nomination for "America's Darkest Secret" (about the epidemic of incest in the U.S.) and published essays in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, Details, O: The Oprah Magazine,Tricycle,The Utne Reader, AARP Magazine, Out, Good Housekeeping, Yoga Journal, McCalls, and Harper’s Bazaar. His Ethical Wisdom blog appears regularly in The Huffington Post and Psychology Today online.

Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert on April 6, 1931) is an American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. He is known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. He continues to teach via his website.

Alpert was born to a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. His father, George Alpert, was a lawyer in Boston, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, one of the founders of Brandeis University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as a major fundraiser for Jewish causes. While Richard did have a bar mitzvah, he was "disappointed by its essential hollowness". He considered himself an atheist and did not profess any religion during his early life, describing himself as “inured to religion. I didn’t have one whiff of God until I took psychedelics.”