The Midnight Carnival
A Tale of Remembering
By Jocelyn Bates
Available on Amazon
“A novel grown from the soil of loss, but blooming with the wild memory of who we are.”
More Than a Story
The Midnight Carnival was born not from imagination alone, but from the sacred archives of the Akashic Records — a space where memory, myth, and soul converge.
Though it takes the form of a novel, it is in truth an invitation: to remember, to reimagine, and to reweave your story.
I wrote this book in the wake of profound loss — losing both of my parents just seven days apart. But what emerged is more than grief; it is a path through grief into life. Into art. Into spirit. Into embodiment.
This Book is Alive
A Threshold. A Tending. A Tapestry.
The Midnight Carnival is not just a story — it’s a living work.
Born through the Akashic Records, this novel carries the heart of my healing journey — but it is not only about grief. It is a portal. A place to begin.
Within its pages live the modalities and mysteries that helped me return to myself: Soul Art®, Yoga Nidra, Akashic Records, Human Design, and Soul Shamanism. You’ll find threads of divine feminine + divine masculine wisdom, inner child healing, ancestral remembering, nervous system repair, and working with future selves and soul contracts. It’s a story shaped by myth, the elements, and the quiet revolution of belief — how we hold it, rewrite it, and become it.
Each tent, each environment within the Carnival, offers its own medicine.
Some may be drawn to breath and body. Others to creativity, community, or the sacred in the everyday.
You do not need to be grieving to enter — but if you are, you will be held.
This is a whole-body, whole-person invitation into remembering.
Come as you are. The story knows the way.
The Carnival is only the beginning.
If the book spoke to you, there’s more.
I’m building an evolving body of work — rooted in the same energies, stories, and practices that shape The Midnight Carnival.
You’re invited to step into the tents with me — through meditations, workshops, retreats, and immersive containers designed to meet you where you are.