I assume that the doubling of "a direct" is a typo. "only in eighth place" (no article before the numeric rank, spell small numbers) "already" is a temporal word; it's misplaced here. I don't know what spontaneous and direct awarenesses are, but I suspect they don't take a preceding article.
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