Intuition is your glimpse of your potential from outside of the restrictions of this reality.

If you examine it while still staying free from the restrictions of your existence you will continue to experience it and describe it as an intuition or a feeling.

Intuition is much purer.

By the time you are calling it a “feeling” you are already in the process of assimilating that intuition against the potential that is available to you when explored within the restrictions of reality, and that's why you can assess what kind of feeling will be generated when that intuition is expressed within the restrictions here.

So by the time you call it a feeling it has already been "processed" against available potentiality & your current personality makeup to determine the feeling that will unfold in expressing that intuition.

If you, however, take that intuition and "think it", which you must do at some point whether you like it or not, it is the lowest common denominator of your own capability as expressed within the restrictions of reality. (As initiated by that intuition)

Now if you choose, you can take that already diminished, lowest common denominator potential, of your intuition, which you have now converted into a thought and perhaps a conversation, and compare this "idea" with others of similar interest to examine if there is any validity to your "new idea" that you are exploring within yourself.

You friends with the same interest as you will listen to your "new" idea, Which is the lowest common denominator potential of your own intuition as compared against the existing restrictions within reality as expressed within your potential, and they will use the capacity of "thought" to compare "it" against each of their own lowest common denominator potential that is expressible within the restrictions of reality from their own personality, WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF YOUR INTUITION TO GUIDE THEM IN THE ASSESMENT OF THE IDEA.

So their assessment of your idea is only that.

It is an assessment of their potential, not an assessment of your INTUITION.

Ego is just the point of reference within the third dimensional reality.

So everything you "do" and "think" and "discuss" is an ego reference.

We have to get away from the idea that the "ego" reference is somehow bad or not ideal to being spiritually in touch.

If you are physical you need the ego, or let's say that if you are physical then you have an ego just as much as you have a physical body.

It is the interface through which you operate as a spiritual being.

Within your physical expression you need a way to know what you must do next to be in alignment with who you chose to be in this physical expression.

It is exactly the same as you sitting at a canvas and asking "what can I paint next?"

Now if your exploration to "what can I paint next?" is conducted by you examining every painting that you have already painted in the past, you can compare that to "thinking" what can I paint next?

If you visit an art gallery for inspiration, you can compare that to asking everybody you know "can you please tell me what I should paint next?"

You can see here that asking others is a good idea as long as you realize that you are doing it to awaken your own intuition into new un-explored directions, so that your ultimate decision is not based on what they tell you but is rather based on what was awakened within you as a result of talking to them.

Now finally, if you went for a walk on a beautiful Sunday morning and while on this walk a sudden desire awakened in you to paint a beautiful green meadow with one single sunflower in the middle, and you literally ran back with excitement to paint it on canvas, you can call that intuition.