What is the author's style in The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda?

The perspective of THE POWER OF SILENCE is in the first-person. It is narrated by Carlos Castaneda, the well-known writer, cult figure and anthropologist who is at this time an anthropology graduate student at UCLA. He is studying ancient Indian sorcery practices under an Indian sorcerer known as don Juan Matus. Don Juan treats Carlos as a nagual apprentice, communicating to him the abstract cores of silent knowledge, which reestablishes his link with intent.

Carlos' perspective is often confused because it jumps between various stories and times, only indirectly communicating the core concepts of the book. It is mostly a recounting Carlos's experience with Don Juan, but it also jumps to narrate in the third-person at various points. Carlos recounts stories that don Juan tells him of don Juan's life experiences and his apprenticeship to the life experiences of don Juan's benefactor, the nagual Julian. He even recounts stories concerning the nagual Julian's benefactor, the nagual Elias. In these stories, Carlos recounts as clearly as he can the story that don Juan communicated to him. Carlos' biases are heavily in favor of the nagual don Juan, almost honoring him. Of course, Carlos reports his disagreements with don Juan but these are apparently regarded as deriving from arrogance and ignorance even if they derive from an honest place in Carlos' heart. Carlos typically acts from the standpoint of an anthropologist and scientist in the book, but he is clearly writing from a position that is more advanced and in line with nagualism.