User blog comment:VedranTheII/Pretentious Diaries 2: What tricks would you teach your Aura?/@comment-5217560-20150719083609/@comment-5217560-20150722000418

Oh wow okay, that does seem very likely.

However, the only real world example we've seen of this is with Glynda, and she didn't appear to be holding a crystal. Hmm so either the illustration was inaccurate, or it showed a time in history wherd users had to directly channel the energies of dust from their physical forms in order to be manipulated.