He posted the Palisades fire’s start. The internet blamed him [Video]

The five men were meditating off a trail near Skull Rock in the hills above Pacific Palisades on the morning of Jan. 7.

With their eyes closed, they spoke about how they were feeling, what they were sensing.

One said, “I feel my breath slowing down.” Another said, “I feel gravity increasing.”

Then, all at once, four of them said the same thing: “I smell fire.”

The five men, including Beni Oren, a 24-year-old who runs a glamping business, were the first to spot the Palisades fire in its earliest stages, around 10:15 a.m., sources told The Times. Video recorded by the trail runners shows them dashing down the hillside away from the flames and smoke.

But what started as a traumatic, near-death experience turned into what he said was a longer-term nightmare after Oren posted his video of the experience on social media.

With so little information about the origin of the deadly fires that are …