I believe I understand your distinction between gnostic awareness and "knowledge"? In my writings I have taken to capitalizing Knowledge when I am speaking of intuition, for instance, since I believe intuition is a faculty of the Spiritual realm within Man.
I usually use the word "information" when speaking of what we know of the brain.
And gnostic awareness is more akin [for me] to a blush of awareness of a "concept" rather than an idea in linear [thinking]form. That is, like intuition which I experience as a complete understanding containing a number of related elements which support, explain, and define the whole concept. But these are not linear, or thought of one after another, but all known at once.
Communication is difficult relative to a desire to actually comprehend what another is saying without understanding how the other intends certain words to be defined. That is, I suspect, the reason I much prefer discussion in person, where one may intuit subtle differences in meaning another holds for certain words, or one may interrupt to ascertain the precise meaning another intends with a specific word.