'direct awareness' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a state of immediate understanding or knowledge without any intermediary factors. For example, "The teacher's direct awareness of the student's needs allowed her to tailor the lesson to the class's level."
On the face of it the Extensional approach is the more natural way for a realist to go: the most obvious and straightforward explanation of how we can be directly aware of change and persistence is to hold that our direct awareness can span an interval of ordinary time.
Many do find it intuitive and prima facie plausible that they are acquainted with or directly aware of at least experiential states and their features, and that this direct awareness is a fundamental source of knowledge.
A four-year-long inquiry by parliament's all-party intelligence and security committee published its report last year establishing that MI6 had "direct awareness of extreme mistreatment and possibly torture" of Zubaydah at those locations.
Focus will be on what is sometimes called "the problem of perception": the question of how perception could provide us with direct awareness of the surrounding environment given the possibility of illusions or hallucinations.
Inner Light, also called Inward Light, the distinctive theme of the Society of Friends (Quakers), the direct awareness of God that allows a person to know God's will for him.
In his letter to the Met, Bhatt wrote: "It is plain that Mr Zubaydah has been subject to mistreatment amounting to torture, and that there is, to say the least, compelling and credible evidence that UK officials had direct awareness of that torture, but nonetheless sent to US officials questions to be put to him in interrogation.
Red-listing is an assessment of conservation status, directing awareness and providing a scientific basis for management and decision-making.
Both mindfulness [ 3] and other higher order cognitive processes (including changes in meta-cognition, attentional allocation or directed awareness), which mediate the effects of mindfulness, are considered difficult to assess [ 4].
Subsequent sessions included a mixture of techniques based on enhancing acceptance through experiential, exposure-based, and mindfulness-based methods, using a present-moment focus, directed awareness, and values-based action.
He argues that the "perception of God"—his term for direct experiential awareness of God makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief.
He had his first LSD experience in 1955; it provided him, he wrote, with "the direct, total awareness, from the inside, so to say, of Love as the primary and fundamental cosmic fact".
