Former New Age medium seeks to found a religious order after her conversion

Catalina Davis spent 15 years in the New Age movement. After her conversion, she described it as a “Luciferian sect” driven by Freemasonry. Now she is preparing to found a religious order to guide those living in a “personal hell” toward God’s mercy.

Davis just published in Spain “The Great Prison: The Hidden Price of Alternative Therapies,” a book in which she describes her entire life and spiritual journey, revealing how immersion in practices such as Reiki, crystals, regression therapy, and quantum coaching poses a danger.

“You don’t know you’re in prison; you think you’re riding a wave, that you’re becoming more and more powerful … But the reality is that you’re digging your own grave and you don’t even realize it. And when you open your eyes, the blindfold falls away, you’re surrounded by bars and you can’t get out,” she explained in an interview with ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News.

Born in Chile in June 1983, Davis grew up in a superstitious family that soon moved to Spain and, as she recounted, “has always been linked in some way to magic and esotericism.” Her aunt “read tarot cards” and her mother had dozens of amulets.

As a teenager, the film “The Craft” (known as “Young Witches” in Hispanic America and “Young People and Witches” in Spain) sparked a desire in her and some friends to practice magic: “I asked my mother to buy me a book on white magic, and she bought it for me the next day. Nothing was stopping me,” she said.

Despite having “a scare with the Ouija board,” she continued experimenting until she became fully immersed in alternative therapies following an illness: “I was 23 years old, and one day I woke up and had lost more than 50% of my sight and hearing.”

The doctors couldn’t find a diagnosis or a treatment: “We started with magic, witches, shamans, healers. At that point, I wasn’t fully immersed in the New Age movement,” she explained, until, at 28, she was advised to see a “holistic therapist.”

“He laid me down on a treatment table and said, ‘Think about what’s happening to you.’ He didn’t even ask me.” The therapist applied a treatment called “bio-energetic restoration” using quartz patches.

Davis was tired of so many “treatments” and spending money without results. During the time they left her alone with those patches, she thought: “That’s it, I’m not going to any more therapy, I’m not going to look for any more help, I have to accept that I’m going to stay like this.”

The devil ‘healed’ her to keep her by his side

She had been living for years with “a kind of mental fog that prevented me from thinking and a feeling as if my brain were melting all the time.” She was “very desperate; I even thought about suicide,” she confessed.

Then, when the therapist returned, she felt healed: “It was as if my pupils suddenly came to life, my ears came to life, it was as if an energy flowed through me, and I was healed. I called my parents, who were traveling at the time, and told them, ‘I’ve recovered, I’m fine.’ And that’s where, let’s say, my crusade began.”

“Alternative therapies work for different reasons. One, the placebo effect. Two, they’re manipulated by the evil one. Three, there’s a grain of truth in them. So, in this specific case, I think it’s the second one, because I was very determined to stop the therapies,” she explained.

It’s as if the devil had said, “I’m going to lose her. I’ll heal her, keep her, and she’ll stay with us,” she added.

‘I think Freemasonry is behind it’

And stay she did. She began to learn and apply a great number of these practices “because each therapy offers a different promise to heal a specific thing,” so much so that she entered “a kind of endless cycle,” where she remained for 15 years.

Many of these therapies “have no risks, no occultism, nothing. However, these other therapies come primarily from the occult and hermetic world.” In fact, she emphasized, “the initiatory aspect of these therapies is evident. Someone has to teach you, someone has to initiate you; it’s not something you can do on your own.”

Davis maintains that the fact that all these therapies are part of a larger body, the New Age movement, is no coincidence: “I think it’s the great Luciferian sect par excellence driven by Freemasonry. I believe Freemasonry is behind it; I believe there’s a movement that encourages society to undergo these kinds of therapies so that under the guise of well-being, people distance themselves from God.”

This accusation is inextricably linked to the fact that Davis herself almost joined a Masonic lodge but ultimately did not.

A conversion in 2 stages

Over the course of 15 years, Davis became an internationally recognized medium. On Nov. 20, 2020, she was in Valencia, Spain. It was a Sunday, and the tarot reader she had arranged to meet canceled their appointment, which they had scheduled “to pull my soul out of the well,” as she recounts in her book.

In Carmen Square, she encountered an unexpected sight: some 200 women carrying a figure of the Christ Child. It was an event in honor of Our Lady of Quinche, the patron saint of Ecuador. They invited her to join, and after some initial hesitation, she accepted.

Once inside the church, the priest said: “If anyone is struggling and needs help, please raise your hand.” Without knowing why, Davis stood up, took the microphone, and, addressing the crowd, said: “I can’t talk about what’s happening to me, but I need help.” The priest blessed her and sprinkled her with holy water. At that point she began a journey of conversion that came to fruition in December 2021.

‘When you look the evil one in the eye, you can’t doubt God’s existence’

Davis is now convinced that all the progress in “states of consciousness” within the New Age movement does not come from God: “All that knowledge, obviously, is given to you by the evil one.”

But before her conversion, she couldn’t have suspected that she was under the influence of the evil one and that she needed to undergo an exorcism process for a time.

“I feel incredibly fortunate, and I’ve always said that the Lord couldn’t have given me a better cross because it makes me pray more, love him more, and also have the conviction that he exists. Because when you look the evil one in the eye, you can’t doubt God’s existence.”

Davis’ life experience gave rise in 2025 to the Creo (I believe) Movement, approved in July 2025 as a private association of the faithful by the bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, José Ignacio Munilla.

“We bring God’s love to all those outside the Church, especially those who practice the New Age movement, through contemplation of Christ’s passion,” Davis explained. This also applies to those within the Church who, “by mistake or out of ignorance, have begun to frequent these types of therapies.”

This apostolate is carried out through spiritual accompaniment and special, completely free programs called “Returning Home.” In all of these programs, they promote a personal encounter with Christ through his passion and, especially, through Ignatian contemplative prayer on the five wounds of Christ.

Although they operate from Spain, they serve people throughout Latin America, especially Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.

“The other day, a young woman was telling us that a priest at her parish in Mexico encouraged her to have an energy surgery performed by St. Gregory Hernandez. Of course, in Santería, that means they invoke a spirit — which is obviously a demon — that physically appears at the location and performs surgery on the person,” she explained by way of example.

From the Creo Movement to the Order of the Holy Wounds

On her path of spiritual conversion, Davis has not only experienced moments of consolation. She has also experienced spiritual dryness, moments “of great desolation, of a great desert.”

“After much prayer and discernment, my spiritual director provided excellent guidance, and we concluded that my true vocation is to be a nun,” she told ACI Prensa from Rome, where she has taken up residence and lives as a consecrated laywoman.

The desolation, they concluded in their discernment, stemmed from the need to respond to the call to consecrated life that she felt “almost at the beginning of my conversion, and even before founding the Creo Movement,” and which takes concrete form in “a religious congregation, the Order of the Holy Wounds of Christ.” Although not yet a reality, it already has “a structure and solid foundations for a male and a female branch” and even candidates to form the first communities.

Their mission will be “to accompany those who are going through a personal hell so that, through contemplation of the passion of Christ and in the spirit of St. Peter, they may discover the love and mercy of God and begin an ascetic and penitential path that leads them to a profound conversion and to living the Gospel in reality, to the healing of their wounds, and to a true spiritual resurgence.”

Davis emphasized that many who fall into the New Age movement do so “because there is something that torments them or causes them suffering,” and that, as happened to her, they experience veritable hells.

In this regard, she noted that on Sept. 25, 2025, Pope Leo XIV said in speaking about Christ’s descent into hell that the underworld is “not so much a place as a condition, where life is depleted, and pain, solitude, guilt, and separation from God and others reign.”

“Christ, on Holy Saturday, descended into hell,” Davis explained, “and I believe that in this charism of the Order of the Holy Wounds, the Lord wants to descend into the hells of each one of us to lead us to Easter, to the light of Easter.”

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.