I am a guy and have no direct experience of this.

It's just common sense that you ask the people with direct experience.

I have certain, positive knowledge from my own direct experience.

This I know, though of course not yet by direct experience.

And it is clearly not based on any direct experience of the man or his work.

I have no direct experience with what is described in the question.

In its place will be a direct experience of the Self.

I myself have no direct experience with this, I've only been reading about it.

"Few people in America have direct experience of his work," he said.

Probably few people in the country could have more direct experience than she had.