How do past lives, ancestry, and personal experience shape who you are today?
In this episode of The Infinite Life Podcast, Katische Haberfield speaks with Brenda Asterino about her experiences with past life memories, ancestral lineage, and how poetry became a pathway to deeper spiritual understanding.
🔹 Season Context
This episode is part of Season 2 of The Infinite Life Podcast, where we explore money, relationships, and the deeper patterns that shape them across this lifetime and beyond.
🔹 What This Episode Covers
Brenda Asterino shares her journey of exploring spirituality through creativity, ancestry, and lived experience.
From a lifelong connection to poetry to deeply personal insights into her lineage, Brenda explains how patterns of truth, justice, and identity have shaped her path.
She also shares how recurring dreams and intuitive knowing led her to uncover both ancestral history and past life experiences — including memories of persecution — and how these insights deepened her empathy and understanding of the human experience.
🔹 Key Takeaways
- Past life memories can emerge through dreams and intuitive insight
- Ancestral lineage can influence identity, strength, and perspective
- Creativity can be a pathway to accessing deeper awareness
- Experiences of trauma and persecution can span across lifetimes
- Empathy grows through understanding shared human experience
- Spiritual insight can come through observation, reflection, and expression
🔹 Listen to the Episode
🔹 Creativity as a Spiritual Path
One of the central themes in this episode is the role of creativity — particularly poetry — as a way of accessing deeper states of awareness.
Rather than approaching spirituality through structured systems, Brenda describes how entering a reflective, intuitive state allows thoughts, emotions, and patterns to emerge naturally.
This highlights an important idea:
👉 Spiritual insight does not have to come through formal practice.
It can arise through creative expression, observation, and allowing yourself to access a different mode of awareness.
🔹 Ancestry, Identity & Inner Knowing
Brenda’s experience also explores the connection between ancestry and intuition.
Through years of genealogical research, combined with an internal sense of knowing, she uncovered aspects of her lineage that reflected themes of survival, persecution, and resilience.
This creates a deeper understanding of identity — not just as an individual, but as part of a larger lineage that carries both strength and experience forward.
🔹 Past Lives & Empathy
A powerful moment in this episode is Brenda’s experience of past life memories emerging through dreams, including memories of persecution.
Rather than being abstract, these experiences create a direct emotional understanding of what it means to live through different circumstances.
This leads to a broader perspective:
👉 When you understand that you have lived many lives, it becomes harder to separate yourself from others.
Empathy becomes a natural response.
🔹 Truth, Justice & Spiritual Awareness
Another key theme is the connection between truth, justice, and spirituality.
Brenda reflects on how expressing truth — whether through art, voice, or personal experience — is deeply connected to spiritual awareness.
This perspective moves spirituality beyond abstract concepts and into lived experience, where awareness, expression, and action are interconnected.
🔹 Start Here
If this conversation resonates with you, begin by exploring:
- how you express yourself creatively
- what patterns or themes appear in your life
- what you feel drawn to understand more deeply
You do not need a structured path — awareness can begin with observation.
🔹 Related Topics
- Past Lives & Soul Exploration
- Spiritual Channeling & Divine Guidance
- Emotional Healing & Mental Health
🔹 Connect with Brenda Asterino
Brenda Asterino is a poet and author. You can explore her work here:
https://www.sidekickpress.com/project/pathways/
Her book Pathways: Walking Through Creation is available via major retailers.
🔹 Work With Katische
If you are seeking deeper understanding of your own patterns, past lives, or spiritual experiences, you can work directly with Katische through a private session.
👉 Book a Direct Transmission Session https://katische.com/work-with-katische