Author / Speaker / Leadership Discernment
Author / Speaker / Leadership Discernment
Author / Speaker / Leadership Discernment
Author / Speaker / Leadership Discernment
Author / Speaker / Leadership Discernment
Author / Speaker
"This wasn't a movie. It was my own livingroom."
I Grew Up Inside the Story the Culture Is Finally Telling Out Loud
"My earliest memories aren't of soccer or skateboarding. They're of my father, a Christian exorcist, performing deliverance ministry in our living room. I grew up watching things most people only encounter in books and horror movies - and I grew up watching them as an ordinary Tuesday. What I saw there wasn't a lesson. It was a war. And I've spent most of my life deciding whether to say so out loud."
The Book Behind the Story
My father wasn't just a Christian exorcist - he had been a Satanist before his own deliverance, and the ministry that followed was extraordinary by any measure: hundreds of deliverances over 4 decades, documented encounters, and a documentary film. But this book isn't just his story. It's mine. What it actually forms in a person to grow up that close to the unseen battle Paul describes in Ephesians 6:12. To watch things in your own living room that the rest of the world only encounters in Hollywood movies. To carry that story in silence for thirty years - and then finally say it out loud. I didn't inherit a theology. I inherited a front-row seat.
"Fanciful words, twisted theology, bizarre, extreme…perhaps these are your thoughts processing The Blue Lady. It’s easy to be dismissive of uncomfortable spiritual truth. Unknowingly we become unbelieving believers, rejecting Biblical spirituality. But in the process, we live beneath our inheritance, lacking power, authority, or intimacy with our Creator. Be a risk taker! Invite the Holy Spirit to guide you through this book. God says: My people perish for lack of knowledge…and on the topic the author covers, for me, this was so true."
Verified Amazon Review
"Such a riveting story! This is such an important topic that is rarely talked about. The author gives a first hand description of his experiences with spiritual warfare, and each chapter is more unreal than the one before. Really appreciate the author sharing his life story, and I hope others are encouraged and helped by him sharing these events."
Verified Amazon Review
"This book is more than a personal story—it’s a divine message to the world. It’s a warning and a call: spiritual warfare is real, and the only protection we have is in God. We must put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18), stay alert, and never forget that the victory is already won through Christ."
Verified Kickstarter Review
"I read your book the very day I received it - the entire thing - and was moved beyond words. I underlined and analyzed and was fearful and tearful...You cautiously yet boldly testified of the Hollywood-hype exorcisms (possession) and the depressed and deceived victims (oppression) and explained how the enemy operates in both. It was sensational but not sensationalized. Theologically sound yet written for the layman. Haunting and daunting yet informative and encouraging. And you gave God the glory each step of the way. Well done."
Verified Kickstarter Review
Rick Hansen.
Author.
Executive.
"Rick Hansen grew up in the home of a Christian exorcist — a former Satanist — and witnessed hundreds of deliverances before he understood what he was watching. He carried that story in silence for over thirty years. He is the author of The Blue Lady, and speaks to churches and faith communities about the reality of spiritual warfare described in Ephesians 6:12."
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" ... a former professor, business owner, and global technology executive who spent over two decades driving growth in at Apple, Accenture, DXC ..."
Meet Rick
"I learned to read a room before I learned almost anything else - because I had to. I watched my father, a Christian exorcist, perform deliverance ministry hundreds of times across my childhood, in the same living room where we ate dinner and did homework. I didn't have language for what I was seeing. I just knew what happened in that house stayed in that house.
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I carried that silence for thirty years. Then my daughters asked me why. That conversation - and the one that followed on Poplitics with Alex Clark - is what finally prompted me to write The Blue Lady."
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I live in Austin, Texas, with my wife and three daughters. When I'm not on a stage or working with leaders, you'll find me in the water.
What Rick Brings
"Rick's insights completely transformed how we can navigate spiritual warfare. Essential and empowering!"
Blends deep spiritual truths with real stories
​TEDx, Churches, Podcasts, Faith-based communities
Not Theory or Theology but over 30 years in the "room"
First hand encounters of dark spiritual encounters
Deep insight of a rarely talked about, highly critical topic
Practical Guide and Approach for Winning Spiritual Battles
Why Did I write this book?
The devil’s greatest trick is to make people believe that he doesn’t exist.
—Keyser Söze, The Usual Suspects
"I didn't create this moment. I just finally said out loud what I'd known since I was a kid — right as the rest of the world started reaching for the same words. We didn't lose the experience. We lost the terminology for it."
"Then I started paying attention to what was already out loud in the culture. A sitting Vice President naming demons on the country's biggest podcast. Catholic exorcist training up 650% since 2020. Netflix's most-watched film in its history built entirely around a hidden spiritual war. The world's most famous atheist calling himself a cultural Christian. A Stanford anthropologist finding that the experience of sensing an unseen, intelligent presence is a human constant across every culture she's studied."
"None of this proves my father's story. But it does mean something: for the first time in more than twenty years, I no longer feel like the only one saying this out loud."
What Rick Offers
Speaking Engagements and Group Sessions
The Invisible Battle: Winning the War Within​
For anyone who senses something is off in their home, their relationships, or themselves, before they can name it. This session teaches spiritual discernment grounded in Ephesians 6:12, drawn from a lifetime of firsthand experience with the unseen battle behind every visible one.​
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Facing the Shadows: Pastoral Discernment in Spiritual Conflict
For pastors and ministry leaders who need more than encouragement — they need a framework. This session helps leaders discern what they're actually facing, distinguish spiritual oppression from psychological distress, and shepherd their congregations with clarity and courage rather than fear.​
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​The Warrior’s Mindset: Developing Spiritual Resilience and Strength
For anyone who wants to move from surviving the battle to being equipped for it. This session builds the armor of God - truth, righteousness, faith, the Word, prayer - not as theological abstractions but as a way of life that holds when the enemy presses hardest.